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New York Times, Tuesday, October 1, 2002

Author:
Michael Shteyman
Editor:
Will Shortz
48-Down : Fastens pants, in a way
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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521.6225255%
Michael Shteyman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Shteyman. Tuesday freshness: 35%
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A
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J
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X
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M
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C
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Y
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P
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P
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D
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Q
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P
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© 2002, The New York Times10/1/2 ( No. 19,320 )
Across
1
Trojan War hero : AJAX
5
Hawkeye's show : MASH
9
Serviceable : OFUSE
14
DNA carrier : GENE
15
To ___ (exactly) : ATEE
16
Spoke irrationally : RAVED
17
Drags along : LUGS
18
Numbers to crunch : DATA
19
Fresh from the laundry : CLEAN
20
Keats work : ODE
21
Address book no. : TEL
22
Refrain from singing? : TRALALA
24
1999 Will Smith movie : WILDWILDWEST
27
Decay : ROT
28
Sought a seat : RAN
29
___ von Bismarck : OTTO
33
Laid-back, personalitywise : TYPEB
36
Unlike dirt roads : PAVED
38
It's charged : ION
39
Nightgown wearer of rhyme : WEEWILLIEWINKIE
42
Chowed down : ATE
43
Tom and Jerry, for two : TOONS
44
"And there you are!" : VOILA
45
Doesn't guzzle : SIPS
47
Suffix with Manhattan : ITE
48
Teen's embarrassment : ZIT
49
Modern research tool : WORLDWIDEWEB
55
Galileo ___ : GALILEI
58
How the excited go : APE
59
Corrida cry : OLE
60
Cara or Castle : IRENE
61
Loch ___ monster : NESS
63
Pack it in : QUIT
64
Exotic fruit : MANGO
65
Rebuke to Brutus : ETTU
66
Cancel : UNDO
67
Obie candidates : PLAYS
68
Leak slowly : SEEP
69
First couple's place : EDEN
Down
1
Shining : AGLOW
2
Day after mercredi : JEUDI
3
Child who behaves perfectly : ANGEL
4
Illiterates' marks : XES
5
Achieved success : MADEIT
6
In any way : ATALL
7
Wimbledon unit : SET
8
Scorching times : HEATWAVES
9
Oceanic killers : ORCAS
10
Get beaten by : FALLTO
11
Eye part : UVEA
12
Navy commando : SEAL
13
Poet ___ St. Vincent Millay : EDNA
21
Small-time : TWOBIT
23
Extend, as Time : RENEW
25
Pulled a six-shooter : DREW
26
Emptied : DRAINED
30
"Kon-___" : TIKI
31
Travail : TOIL
32
Most qualified to serve : ONEA
33
"Jabberwocky" starter : TWAS
34
Hairy humanoid : YETI
35
Chick's sound : PEEP
36
Drama essentials : PLOTLINES
37
Make fractions : DIVIDE
40
France's longest river : LOIRE
41
Staff member? : NOTE
46
Like Benny Goodman's music : SWINGY
48
Fastens pants, in a way : ZIPSUP
50
Dairy section selections : OLEOS
51
Fritter away : WASTE
52
Twisted : WOUND
53
Say "bo's'n," say : ELIDE
54
Back, as a racehorse : BETON
55
Hobbling gait : GIMP
56
Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL
57
Tuneful Horne : LENA
62
Summer on the Riviera : ETE
63
Can. province : QUE

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

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