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New York Times, Friday, July 6, 2001

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
8-Across : Progress
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1938/7/199612/22/202321
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 29 Missing: {BHZ} This is puzzle # 48 for Mr. Quigley. Friday freshness: 40%
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© 2001, The New York Times7/6/1 ( No. 18,868 )
Across
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No Apple product : PCCLONE
8
Progress : STRIDES
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Circular file? : ROLODEX
16
Accept blame without beefing : EATDIRT
17
Past : ONETIME
18
Daughter of Ferdinand III : ELEANOR
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Kind of strand : DNA
20
Plan foilers, perhaps : NEMESES
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Passenger's concern, in brief : ETA
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Tintinnabulation : DONG
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Mark of excellence : APLUS
26
Start of a guess : ISIT
27
Places for pins : ETUIS
29
Area of responsibility : LAP
30
Bell heather, e.g. : ERICA
31
Dressing-down : REPROVAL
33
Russian democracy champion Bonner : ELENA
34
It may be a trap : DOOR
35
Particular, for short : SPEC
36
Bracing doses : JOLTS
38
Band-aid : QUICKFIX
42
Thick : DOPEY
43
Kennel club reject : CUR
44
"Careless Hands" singer : TORME
45
Put away : ICED
46
Puts together : JOINS
48
Guy ___ (Garrison Keillor character) : NOIR
49
Spanish direction : SUR
50
Figures to be analyzed : RAWDATA
52
Classic muscle car : GTO
53
Chic : ALAMODE
55
"Chocolat" studio : MIRAMAX
57
Went beyond : RANOVER
58
Magnify : ELEVATE
59
1936 Gary Cooper title role : MRDEEDS
60
Like some glass : STAINED
Down
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One tending to steer out of control? : PRODDER
2
Intimate : CONNOTE
3
Make a huge profit : CLEANUP
4
One's fortune : LOT
5
Cosmos creator, in myth : ODIN
6
Temple of Zeus locale : NEMEA
7
Archetype : EXEMPLAR
8
Escorts to a penthouse, e.g. : SEESUP
9
Grimm collection : TALES
10
Direction givers' suggestions: Abbr. : RTES
11
Violinist Haendel : IDA
12
Has a traditional meal : DINESIN
13
Anaïs Nin output : EROTICA
14
Layers : STRATA
21
It serves Jerusalem : ELAL
24
Encompassed : GIRDLED
26
Opinion opener : IRECKON
28
Like Santa on Christmas morning? : SOOTY
30
Make an officer, maybe : ELECT
32
Columnist Marilyn ___ Savant : VOS
33
Dermal opening? : EPI
35
They're not given : SURNAMES
36
Not serious : JOCULAR
37
Divisor, e.g. : OPERAND
38
Mouthful of tobacco : QUID
39
Underwater salvager, e.g. : FROGMAN
40
Copy : IMITATE
41
Copied : XEROXED
42
Deprive of heat? : DISARM
43
Is obviously afraid : COWERS
46
Blasé : JADED
47
Circus sight : STILT
50
Cover ground? : ROVE
51
Acreage : AREA
54
First name in slapstick : MOE
56
Prefix with fauna : AVI

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

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