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New York Times, Friday, August 23, 2002

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
18-Across : Chaucer's "The ___ Tale"
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {FQXZ} Spans: 3, (1 triple stack) This is puzzle # 61 for Mr. Quigley. Friday freshness: 71%
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© 2002, The New York Times8/23/2 ( No. 19,281 )
Across
1
Punchlike beverage : BUGJUICE
9
Sub : HOAGIE
15
Not right : ABNORMAL
16
Prepare to slip out of, perhaps : UNLACE
17
Battered and sautéed in butter : MEUNIERE
18
Chaucer's "The ___ Tale" : REEVES
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Skill, in old Rome : ARS
20
Cold war worry : ARMSRACE
22
Northern Ireland's Shannon-___ Waterway : ERNE
24
"Get ___!" (victim's cry) : HIM
25
Org. that included the Kentucky Colonels : ABA
28
Veil material : TULLE
31
Quotation qualification : SIC
32
"Nothing beats ___" (beer slogan) : ABUD
33
Pacifist's dream : UNIVERSALACCORD
37
"Almost finished," as to a decathlete : NINEDOWNONETOGO
38
Group with the 1967 hit "Come On Down to My Boat" : EVERYMOTHERSSON
39
Typists' settings : TABS
40
Southern constellation : ARA
41
Tenor Schipa and others : TITOS
42
Andean tuber : OCA
43
Not only that : AND
44
Rigging pro : BOSN
46
It may be given a slug : COINSLOT
49
Run in : NAB
52
#1 Beach Boys hit : KOKOMO
54
Famous French roundelay : ALOUETTE
57
Tony winner Worth and others : IRENES
58
Brute strength : RAWPOWER
59
High-stepping occasion? : PARADE
60
"Nana" star, 1934 : ANNASTEN
Down
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The Tide, of college sports : BAMA
2
Potsdam preposition : UBER
3
Serengeti herd : GNUS
4
Actor Favreau : JON
5
Sch. in Kingston : URI
6
Freudian slip follower : IMEAN
7
French square : CARRE
8
I, for one: Abbr. : ELEM
9
It may bring down the house : HURRICANE
10
When last call may be announced : ONEAM
11
Jazz pianist Templeton : ALEC
12
Helped up : GAVEABOOST
13
Bar stock : ICE
14
Some M.I.T. grads : EES
21
Civil War battle site : SHILOH
22
Young, transparent fish : ELVERS
23
Slender : REEDY
26
Thick, spicy stew : BURGOO
27
Peripherals : ADDONS
28
Find on the dial : TUNETO
29
Technological introduction of 1951 : UNIVAC
30
Red-dogger, e.g. : LINEBACKER
31
Recipient of many wish lists : SANTA
32
Is a part of, as a play : ACTSIN
34
It has a prominent bridge : ROMANNOSE
35
They have duel purposes : SWORDS
36
Altoids alternative : CERTS
43
About to be fired, perhaps : AIMED
44
Pakistan's ___ Pass : BOLAN
45
Boy band with the hit "Liquid Dreams" : OTOWN
47
Woman's name that's Irish for "unity" : OONA
48
Pasternak heroine : LARA
49
Packing info: Abbr. : NTWT
50
To ___ : ATEE
51
Where Einstein published his special theory of relativity : BERN
52
Laotian money : KIP
53
Mouths : ORA
55
Work ___ sweat : UPA
56
Canon camera : EOS

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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