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New York Times, Friday, August 7, 1998

Author:
Frank Longo
Editor:
Will Shortz
41-Across : Legendary elephant eaters
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
9110/29/199411/24/20192
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
41.4868687%
Frank Longo

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JKQWXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 41 for Mr. Longo. Friday freshness: 86%
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© 1998, The New York Times8/7/98 ( No. 17,804 )
Across
1
"Speed" speeder : BUS
4
Mimeographs, e.g. : DUPLICATORS
15
"Come ___ My House" (Clooney hit) : ONA
16
Woodstock performer, 1969 : ARLOGUTHRIE
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Assembly-line principle : DIVISIONOFLABOR
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Former Gov. Bayh : EVAN
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Bluebeard's seventh wife : FATIMA
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Peripatetic religious leader : DALAILAMA
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Stomach tightener : SITUP
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Five and ten, e.g. : CARDINALS
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Not neurotic : SANE
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Oman, for one : SULTANATE
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Sue Grafton's "___ for Lawless" : LIS
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Causes of many swoons : TEENIDOLS
36
Opposite of "huh?" : AHA
39
Used a clothesline : DRIPDRIED
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Legendary elephant eaters : ROCS
43
Projecting parts : SALIENCES
45
Best : CREAM
47
Stir : SENSATION
49
Last team coached by Leo Durocher : ASTROS
51
Heraldic wreath : ORLE
52
1990's CBS detective drama : DIAGNOSISMURDER
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One way to vanish : INTOTHINAIR
59
Free : RID
60
Deleterious defoliant : AGENTORANGE
61
England's Isle of ___ : ELY
Down
1
Foreshadowed : BODED
2
Historic computer of 1951 : UNIVAC
3
"Pancho Villa" star, 1972 : SAVALAS
4
Cologne article : DAS
5
Where the Reuss River originates : URI
6
Al Fatah grp. : PLO
7
McCallister of "Montana Territory" : LON
8
Walt Kelly's "___ Pogo" : IGO
9
Trouser turnup : CUFF
10
Where to find 5-Down : ATLAS
11
Words preceding a clarification : THATIS
12
Like satellites : ORBITAL
13
Mainland Equatorial Guinea : RIOMUNI
14
Tabasco coverings : SERAPES
18
Going nowhere : INARUT
22
Went nowhere : IDLED
23
Some Pepsi purchases : LITERS
24
Chronic liar : ANANIAS
25
Unit of a legion : MANIPLE
26
Jafar's nemesis, in film : ALADDIN
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Inventory : STORES
32
"Nadja" actress Löwensohn : ELINA
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Quadrant, say : SECTOR
36
Part of ancient Greece with the city Megalópolis : ARCADIA
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Fooling (around) : HORSING
38
Cel material : ACETATE
40
Yeats heroine : DEIRDRE
42
Noted Assyrian king mentioned in Isaiah : SARGON
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French sun : SOLEIL
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Puerto ___, Chile : MONTT
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Square, in a way : NERDY
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TriBeCa neighbor : SOHO
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Base address : SIR
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Concert ending : INA
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___ Pablo, Calif. : SAN
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Certain jet : MIG
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Suffix with press : URE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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