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New York Times, Saturday, January 12, 2002

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Down : Utters loudly and indiscreetly
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 54 for Mr. Quigley. Saturday freshness: 12%
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© 2002, The New York Times1/12/2 ( No. 19,058 )
Across
1
Western transportation : STAGES
7
"Who Let the Dogs Out" band : BAHAMEN
14
Like some wages : HOURLY
15
Tardy person's query : AMILATE
16
Beat to the tape : OUTRAN
17
What a custodian does : PROTECTS
18
With 1-Down, place to pick up a racket : PRO
19
Relatively busy : NOSIER
21
"Waiting for Godot" prop : HAT
22
Means : MIDDLES
24
Off : AMISS
26
R.M.N. was a member of it : HUAC
28
Didn't just talk about : ACTEDON
30
Creon condemned her to be buried alive : ANTIGONE
33
Most of Kauai : VOWELS
36
First name in despotism : IDI
37
Toronto attraction : CNTOWER
39
Duke Ellington's "The ___ From Joe's" : GAL
40
Quarter : LOCALE
42
Tweak : FINETUNE
44
Interpret signs : PREDICT
46
Over : ANEW
47
Smarten (up) : SPIFF
49
Salt-cured pork : FATBACK
52
Search engine find : URL
53
Dual personality part : JEKYLL
54
___-neck : EWE
57
"Way to go!" : GOODMOVE
60
Computer miniprogram : APPLET
62
Tiny : ANTLIKE
63
Sister of Clio : THALIA
64
One enlarging pictures, say : RESIZER
65
Part of Dionysus' entourage : SATYRS
Down
1
See 18-Across : SHOP
2
It may be taken around the world : TOUR
3
Air traffic controllers? : AUTOMATICPILOTS
4
Warning sound : GRR
5
Serengeti grazer : ELAND
6
Church meeting : SYNOD
7
Least adorned : BAREST
8
Archer of myth : AMOR
9
Success in the offing? : HIT
10
It might be in a yard : ALE
11
Gangster said to have coined the term "G-man" : MACHINEGUNKELLY
12
James and Jones : ETTAS
13
Arboreal array : NESTS
17
"It was nothing, really" : PIECEOFCAKE
20
What an editorial has : SLANT
23
Here, elsewhere : ICI
24
Really relish : ADORE
25
Butcher, with "down" : MOW
26
Come (from) : HAIL
27
Choice on an Edit menu : UNDO
29
Flush : EVEN
31
Score figure : GCLEF
32
Like a line, briefly : ONED
34
Driving place : LANE
35
Throng : SLEW
38
Smart-mouthed : WITTY
41
Spot announcement? : ARF
43
Tie ___ : TAC
45
Assuming it'll happen at all : IFEVER
47
Some lumps : SUGAR
48
One way to lie : PRONE
50
Utters loudly and indiscreetly : BLATS
51
Numeric lead-in : ALPHA
53
Funny : JOKE
55
Stream blocker : WEIR
56
Letters of Zeno : ETAS
58
Year in Vigilius's papacy : DLI
59
"Les ___" : MIZ
61
One way to stand : PAT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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