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New York Times, Saturday, June 22, 2002

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
31-Across : Punch lines?
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {JQUZ} This is puzzle # 158 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 29%
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© 2002, The New York Times6/22/2 ( No. 19,219 )
Across
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Leave behind : SHAKEOFF
9
Beliefs : DOGMAS
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Entertain, as guests : HAVEOVER
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Skater Zayak : ELAINE
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"___ was in our lips and eyes": "Antony and Cleopatra" : ETERNITY
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Rebate card, e.g. : MAILIN
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Hay there : BARN
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Vital moment : NICKOFTIME
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Hosp. areas : ORS
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Particle in a quark model : MESON
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Solo : STAG
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Devotion : PIETY
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Some farm hands : HOERS
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___ premium : ATA
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Punch lines? : OWS
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1920's Japanese premier : KATO
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It's faith-based: Abbr. : REL
35
Drop down : DEMOTE
38
Airport woes : DELAYS
40
___ scripta (statute) : LEX
41
Reddish : RARE
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Cuisinier's need : SEL
44
"Oh!" overseas : ACH
45
Not getting many laughs, as a comedian : DYING
47
Central position : MIDST
51
Mess-up : SLIP
53
Conk : CROWN
55
Taxonomic suffix : OTA
56
Predetermined fare : TABLEDHOTE
59
Warning device : HORN
60
Jim Palmer, notably : ORIOLE
61
Like a grenade reaching a bunker, maybe : LOBBEDIN
63
Bug : NETTLE
64
Have insomnia : LIEAWAKE
65
Point's opposite? : ERASER
66
High and dry : STRANDED
Down
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1984 Cyndi Lauper hit : SHEBOP
2
John Wayne adventure film : HATARI
3
Objecting : AVERSE
4
Composer of Broadway's "Sunny" : KERN
5
Ages : EON
6
Like bighorns : OVINE
7
Charm : FETISH
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Diner employee : FRYCOOK
9
Certain tape : DEMO
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Minnesota's St. ___ College : OLAF
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Ambles and others : GAITS
12
Common career choice, with "the" : MILITARY
13
Gets going : ANIMATES
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Gambia's only neighbor : SENEGAL
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Press, fold and stretch : KNEAD
23
Astonished cry : MYWORD
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Alley denizen : TOM
28
Many begin with I: Abbr. : RTES
29
Kind of oath : SOLEMN
32
Host's request : STAY
35
Dummy's opposite : DECLARER
36
Start of a court presentation : EXHIBITA
37
Expressionist painter Heckel : ERICH
39
His won-lost record was 56-5 : ALI
40
Hawker's tempting words : LASTONE
42
Records : ENROLLS
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Begin immediately : GOTOIT
48
Thingy : DOODAD
49
Call at home : STRIKE
50
Thrashed : TANNED
52
They may be brewing : PLOTS
54
"Cubist Poems" writer Max : WEBER
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Women's issue? : ELLE
58
Bucks : DEER
59
Cut : HEWN
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Bucolic cry : BAA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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