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New York Times, Friday, September 2, 2005

Author:
Sherry O. Blackard
Editor:
Will Shortz
16-Across : Near-slave worker
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Sherry O. Blackard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 26 Missing: {JQWXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 44 for Ms. Blackard. Friday freshness: 83%
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© 2005, The New York Times9/2/5 ( No. 20,387 )
Across
1
Gallery sign : ARTSALE
8
It may lead to cooler heads : ICEBAG
14
Stupid creep, slangily : MEATBALL
16
Near-slave worker : COOLIE
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Ape : MAKELIKE
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Catalog : ASSORT
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1993 A.L. batting champ John : OLERUD
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Year the National University of Mexico was founded : MDLI
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Price abbr. : CTS
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More likely to please : NICER
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Newport rival : KOOL
25
Tamiroff of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" : AKIM
26
Suffix with social : ITES
27
Cornerstone word : ANNO
28
Wool source : LLAMA
29
Author Rand : AYN
30
Sober : CLEARHEADED
32
"Bwana Devil" was the first one : THREEDMOVIE
34
Happy-go-lucky : FREEANDEASY
36
They may be turnoffs: Abbr. : RDS
39
Fine, in slapstick : LARRY
40
Ballpark figs. : ESTS
41
Unstable lepton : MUON
42
Temple part : APSE
43
Realizes : NETS
44
Approached rapidly : RANTO
45
Cousin of a chickadee : TIT
46
Frank Sinatra's "Meet Me at the ___" : COPA
47
Fritz of the Chicago Symphony : REINER
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Bag holder : TEAPOT
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Period of greatest success : NOONTIDE
52
Unrestrained parties : ORGIES
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Look : DEMEANOR
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Fake : PSEUDO
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Architects' work : DESIGNS
Down
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Unbreathable part of an atmosphere : AMMONIA
2
Kind of TV : REALITY
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Come into one's own : TAKECENTERSTAGE
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Firewood measures : STERES
5
"It's all ___" ("I can't remember") : ABLUR
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Installed : LAID
7
Tennessee River tributary : ELK
8
Announcement at the table : ICALL
9
Start of a Mozart title : COSI
10
Daughter of Hyperion : EOS
11
Shipping charges? : BLOCKADERUNNING
12
Exposure : AIRTIME
13
Loses one's cool : GETSMAD
15
Site of a pitchers' lineup? : LEMONADESTAND
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Easily-used people : DOORMATS
24
Substantially (in) : KNEEDEEP
25
Jai ___ : ALAI
27
Chrysler Building architect William Van ___ : ALEN
28
Charge : LEVY
30
Seymour ___, the Father of Supercomputing : CRAY
31
Pardner's mount : HOSS
33
"___ goes" : HERE
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Bygone haircut : FLATTOP
35
Old armory stock : RAPIERS
37
Adored : DOTEDON
38
Causes of some domestic disturbances : SNORERS
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Trader Vic invention : MAITAI
43
Au contraire : NOTSO
44
French royal called "Le Bon," and others : RENES
46
College figure : COED
47
"Coriolanus" setting : ROME
49
More, musically : PIU
51
It comes in many vols. : OED

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

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