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New York Times, Saturday, July 14, 2001

Author:
David J. Kahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
56-Across : College head
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1893/15/19944/22/20245
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16241.551,23753%
David J. Kahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 31 Missing: {BFJMQYZ} This is puzzle # 76 for Mr. Kahn. Saturday freshness: 73%
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© 2001, The New York Times7/14/1 ( No. 18,876 )
Across
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It helps you get a ride : CARLOAN
8
Time and temperature, e.g. : SCALARS
15
Like some zoning in the suburbs : ONEACRE
16
Style : PANACHE
17
Be a "Survivor" contestant : ROUGHIT
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Public hangings? : ARTSHOW
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Precise : LITERAL
20
Babka need : RAISINS
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Privately : ENTRENOUS
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E-mail address ending : EDU
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Native: Suffix : OTE
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Where zippers may get caught : SPEEDTRAP
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Role in many teen flicks : NERD
31
Normally : ASARULE
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They were named after Henry's son : EDSELS
34
Assets aplenty : RICHES
38
Indulge : CATERTO
42
Give birth to : HAVE
43
Really interrogates : WORKSOVER
46
Dundee disavowal : NAE
47
Be in another form : ARE
48
They may appear before ramps : EXITSIGNS
52
Part of a pound : PIASTER
56
College head : PROVOST
57
Prerecorded : NOTLIVE
58
Cornmeal mush : POLENTA
59
Noted Big Apple bistro : ELAINES
60
Muscle that rotates a part outward : EVERTOR
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Turn over again : RESTART
62
Bases : REASONS
Down
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Puzo family name : CORLEONE
2
Made sacred, in a way : ANOINTED
3
Iterates : REUTTERS
4
Product made with yeast : LAGER
5
Pale yellow : OCHRE
6
Sect follower : ARIAN
7
Schedule C figure : NETLOSS
8
Not so dense : SPARSER
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Actress Williams of "The Defiant Ones" : CARA
10
Start to freeze? : ANTI
11
Miss : LASS
12
Having a worse case of the flu : ACHIER
13
Title girl of a 1965 hit song : RHONDA
14
Clinches : SEWSUP
22
___ notch : UPA
26
Prefix with bond : EURO
27
Year in Justinian I's reign : DLI
28
Texas ___ : TECH
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Pack of sharks? : DECK
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About : ASTO
33
Parts of some choruses : LAS
35
Keep : HANGONTO
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Home of Kendall College : EVANSTON
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React to a sidewinder : SEESTARS
39
Challenge for Hillary : EVEREST
40
Presiding masquer in a Mardi Gras festival : REX
41
Fall initiator, perhaps : TRIPPER
43
Onetime TV judge : WAPNER
44
Firebird : ORIOLE
45
They ring some necks : REATAS
49
Valuable find : TROVE
50
Old Roman sandal : SOLEA
51
"The Strange Love of Martha ___" (1946 film) : IVERS
53
Cat's eye, sometimes : SLIT
54
Playwright Howe : TINA
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Of all time : EVER

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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