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New York Times, Saturday, June 8, 2002

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
55-Across : Trim
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.5550233%
Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {QUXZ} This is puzzle # 87 for Mr. Piscop. Saturday freshness: 10%
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J
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O
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A
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N
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R
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I
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V
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E
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R
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O
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W
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N
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O
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A
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H
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L
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T
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C
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A
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F
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A
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D
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S
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G
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N
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G
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O
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D
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© 2002, The New York Times6/8/2 ( No. 19,205 )
Across
1
Comedian who once said, "My audiences are my group therapy" : JOANRIVERS
11
Atlas abbr. : ISL
14
Big name in talk radio : OLLIENORTH
15
Dazed : ASEA
16
Right down the fairway : WELLDRIVEN
17
Popular handheld game company : TOMY
18
Global positioning fig. : LAT
19
24-Across, in France : MIDI
20
Like some old-fashioned lamps : OILLIT
22
[How boring!] : SNORE
24
Whistle time : NOON
26
"Yo te ___" : AMO
27
Harp go-with, maybe : HALO
30
Move quickly and lightly : SKITTER
32
Part of many a corporate facility : CAFETERIA
36
Beaten to death : TRITE
37
Buckets : ALOT
38
Plaintive piece : DIRGE
40
Spacewalks, for short : EVAS
41
Sources of starch : TAROS
43
Maryland home of the Goddard Space Flight Center : GREENBELT
45
Honorary title holders : EMERITI
47
Barker : SEAL
48
Charles, for one : ROI
49
Over the stadium wall : GONE
51
Role in "The Robe" : PETER
55
Trim : EDGING
57
Racket part : GRIP
60
Project conclusion? : ILE
61
Portuguese lady : DONA
62
Social climbers : ARRIVISTES
65
Some feds : TMEN
66
Orator's asset : EYECONTACT
67
"___ the glad waters of the dark blue sea": Byron : OER
68
Dash and others : DETERGENTS
Down
1
Prominent part of a Nixon caricature : JOWLS
2
Fat substitute : OLEAN
3
___ the good : ALLTO
4
Zip : NIL
5
Buffalo, e.g. : REDMEAT
6
Religious inscription : INRI
7
Set aside : VOID
8
Sam of the Watergate hearings : ERVIN
9
Itinerary abbr. : RTE
10
Dope : SHNOOK
11
Opposite of combinative : ISOLATIVE
12
Arsenic is one : SEMIMETAL
13
Finally settle : LAYTOREST
15
N.L. city: Abbr. : ATL
21
Rolling ___ (rich) : INIT
23
Isocrates, for one : RHETOR
25
Siouan speakers : OSAGES
28
Took the van : LED
29
Graph spot : ORIGIN
31
Go from 3 to 9, say : TREBLE
32
Waited on : CATEREDTO
33
Spurs are attached to it : ALAMODOME
34
Many a tourist : FOREIGNER
35
Sale abbr. : IRR
39
Shoebox letters : EEE
42
Pickup line request : SIGN
44
Not alert : NAPPING
46
Like fraternity party revelers, perhaps : TOGAED
50
Cousin of a bittern : EGRET
52
Missile in a silo : TITAN
53
Pick : ELECT
54
Doesn't play : RESTS
56
Publisher Ballantine : IAN
58
Wild ___ : RICE
59
Songwriter Novello : IVOR
63
Sandwich choice : RYE
64
Marie or Julie: Abbr. : STE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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