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New York Times, Friday, October 18, 2002

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
13-Down : Increase, as an incline
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 24 Missing: {JKQ} Spans: 4, (2 double stacks) This is puzzle # 165 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 49%
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© 2002, The New York Times10/18/2 ( No. 19,337 )
Across
1
Suitability : APTNESS
8
Best at buffoonery : ZANIEST
15
Frighten : THROWASCAREINTO
17
Purchase with rings : LOOSELEAFBINDER
18
Wear : ATTIRE
19
Adaptable aircraft : STOL
20
Prize : GEM
21
Paper money : NOTES
22
Mix up : STIR
23
Hard-to-refute evidence : TAPE
24
Level : TIER
25
Kit-Cat Club member in 18th-century London : WHIG
26
Certain puffer-uppers : PRMEN
27
Include, with "in" : ADD
28
Look : PEER
29
Show the ropes : ORIENT
30
Planter : WINDOWBOX
32
Say "I'm sorry" : REPENT
35
Wide-eyed sort : NAIF
36
Wander : GAD
39
Go off : ERUPT
40
Snippy : TART
41
Rustic : RUBE
42
Fencer's move : VOLT
43
Punches : AWLS
44
Barbary Coast city : TUNIS
45
Map abbr. : ISL
46
"I kiss'd thee ___ kill'd thee": Othello : EREI
47
Shrine : TEMPLE
48
Nutritional group : VITAMINBCOMPLEX
51
Stranded person's wish : EVACUATIONPLANE
52
"L'enfant prodigue" composer : DEBUSSY
53
Stiff : PIEEYED
Down
1
Setting for Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full" : ATLANTA
2
Driver's license, e.g. : PHOTOID
3
Brought (out) : TROTTED
4
More intrusive : NOSIER
5
Jugs : EWERS
6
Reward for good pitching? : SALE
7
Maui-to-Hawaii dir. : SSE
8
Rubenesque : ZAFTIG
9
___ Day : ARBOR
10
Buzz's companion on the moon : NEIL
11
"Am ___ your way?" : IIN
12
Final stage : ENDGAME
13
Increase, as an incline : STEEPEN
14
Agony : TORMENT
16
Surefire out : CASTIRONALIBI
22
Shake off : SHED
23
Multicolored breakfast cereal : TRIX
25
___ with (dated) : WENT
26
Head of the class : PROF
28
Two-cupper : PINT
29
Write of passage? : OBIT
30
Mewled : WEPT
31
"Ring out the thousand ___ of old": Tennyson : WARS
32
Brought back : REVIVED
33
Wearing : EROSIVE
34
Can opener : PULLTAB
36
Shoot-'em-up action : GUNPLAY
37
Chisholm Trail terminus : ABILENE
38
Gender-neutral : DESEXED
40
Score : TWENTY
41
Mess up : RUMPLE
43
Dramatic highlights : ARIAS
44
Fiesta Bowl site : TEMPE
46
They'll never fly : EMUS
47
Writer Morrison : TONI
49
With a needle: Prefix : ACU
50
Filch : COP

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

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