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New York Times, Friday, September 21, 2001

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
56-Across : "C'est magnifique!"
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {QX} Spans: 3, (1 triple stack) This is puzzle # 51 for Mr. Quigley. Friday freshness: 46%
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© 2001, The New York Times9/21/1 ( No. 18,945 )
Across
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Aquatic bloodsucker : LAMPREY
8
Biting pieces : SATIRES
15
Novelist France : ANATOLE
16
August : EMINENT
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"Time to Be in Earnest" autobiographer : PDJAMES
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1992 country album : WYNONNA
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No mere dabbler : PRO
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Beach item : PAIL
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It may be dinged : FENDER
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One lorded over? : SERF
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Presley's "Don't," e.g., not "I Beg of You" : ASIDE
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Beyond paramedic help : DOA
29
Supermodel Sastre : INES
30
Thought waves : ESP
33
Reveler's cries : WHOOPANDAHOLLER
38
"People have told me ..." : IAMLEDTOBELIEVE
39
Things to "see" in an encyclopedia : CROSSREFERENCES
40
Some G.I. duties : KPS
41
River to Donegal Bay : ERNE
42
Former Giants manager : OTT
43
Playground retort : CANSO
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It's enveloped in white : YOLK
48
Official soft drink of Little League : RCCOLA
51
Express casually : DROP
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Banker's bane : RUN
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"C'est magnifique!" : OOHLALA
58
Stunned : INADAZE
60
Listless: Var. : ANAEMIC
61
Multivitamin product : GERITOL
62
100,000-dyne units : NEWTONS
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Part of an ensemble : GARMENT
Down
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Sami speakers : LAPPS
2
Automaker Citroën : ANDRE
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Chief stewards : MAJORDOMOS
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Class-conscious org.? : PTA
5
Effortless pace : ROMP
6
Xenophanes taught there : ELEA
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"___ Am" (Melissa Etheridge title track) : YESI
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Monopolize, with "up" : SEW
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Role played by Drew Barrymore in a 1993 TV movie based on real life : AMYFISHER
10
Like a trident : TINED
11
Combined : INONE
12
Split : REND
13
Feminine ending : ENNE
14
Headliner : STAR
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Retiree's destination? : LANDOFNOD
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Mortals, to Puck : FOOLS
26
Naval engineer : SEABEE
28
Real swingers? : APES
29
Puts in a final resting place : INTERS
30
Voters : ELECTORATE
31
Golf's Ballesteros : SEVE
32
Johnson or Johnson: Abbr. : PRES
33
Lighter feature : WICK
34
Heavenly sound : HARP
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Epinephrine trademark : ADRENALIN
36
Pat material? : OLEO
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Like some sweaters : LINTY
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St. Paul's School founder John ___ : COLET
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1836 siege site : ALAMO
46
Philippine island : LUZON
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Showed subservience : KNELT
48
Reddish shade : ROAN
49
Traffic ___ : CONE
50
Quid : CHAW
52
"Medea" Tony winner, 1994 : RIGG
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Most fit for the forces : ONEA
54
Henry VIII's sixth : PARR
57
Coolers, briefly : ACS
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Unfavorable : DIM

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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