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New York Times, Saturday, October 1, 2005

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
14-Down : Culls
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1418/26/19955/9/20241
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311092443303
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
331.591,23673%
Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 25 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 79 for Mr. DiPietro. Saturday freshness: 90%
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© 2005, The New York Times10/1/5 ( No. 20,416 )
Across
1
Sting, basically : TRAP
5
Vera Miles, in 1948 : MISSKANSAS
15
City surrounded on two sides by Toiyabe National Forest : RENO
16
"Is this really my fault?" : AMITOBLAME
17
About : ASTO
18
House style : SPLITLEVEL
19
Video store section : SCIFI
21
It opens Letterman's "Viewer Mail" : LETTERONE
22
Berkshire, e.g. : HOG
23
It might get busted : BRONCO
25
Wrestler Flair, 10-time N.W.A. world heavyweight champion : RIC
26
Straight up : TRUENORTH
28
Jake's lover in "The Sun Also Rises" : BRETT
30
Hearty meat dish : VEALSTEW
31
Bunch of sitcom characters : BRADYS
32
Fellahs : MACS
33
Stretched out : LAIN
34
Calf muscle : SOLEUS
37
Upset : MALDEMER
41
Online greeting : ECARD
42
Pontiff for just 26 days in 1605 : POPELEOXI
43
Choice for un votant : NON
44
___ track : TENURE
45
Drink that's stirred : NOG
46
Bird of the American Arctic that migrates south : SNOWGOOSE
49
Forger : SMITH
51
Mistaken : INTHEWRONG
53
Hard ___ : ATIT
54
55
More than a little off : LOCO
56
Scooby-Doo and others : GREATDANES
57
1979 revolution locale : IRAN
Down
1
"Masterpiece Theatre" it ain't : TRASHTV
2
Change from a hit to an error, say : RESCORE
3
West Indies island : ANTIGUA
4
Disappearing word : POOF
5
Humanities degs. : MAS
6
Entreats : IMPLORES
7
Start to write? : SILENTW
8
Laugh maker : STITCH
9
Actor Yaphet ___, of TV's "Homicide" : KOTTO
10
Equipped : ABLE
11
What an A is not : NLER
12
Took pleasure in : SAVORED
13
Shower cap at a motel, maybe : AMENITY
14
Culls : SELECTS
20
1930's-50's Arab ruler : IBNSAUD
24
Univ. military programs : ROTCS
27
Hunter with a middle initial of J : ELMER
28
Shows disdain : BRIDLES
29
Indian dignitary : RANEE
31
John Deere product : BALER
33
Los Angeles suburb : LAPUENTE
34
Picking up : SENSING
35
Reagan Supreme Court nominee : OCONNOR
36
1961 Michelangelo Antonioni film a k a "The Night" : LANOTTE
37
Seasonal recurrence : MONSOON
38
Watch : MONITOR
39
Carnival displays : EXOTICA
40
"You said it!" : RIGHTON
42
Home of the Chiefs in minor-league baseball : PEORIA
44
Hooked up and left : TOWED
47
"Now that's awesome!" : WHOA
48
Chap : GENT
50
Landlocked land of 12 million : MALI
52
Bunch of fun : GAS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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