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New York Times, Friday, October 20, 2000

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
37-Down : Bully?
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 43 for Mr. Quigley. Friday freshness: 74%
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P
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© 2000, The New York Times10/20/0 ( No. 18,609 )
Across
1
Adam Dalgliesh's creator : PDJAMES
8
Notch cut into a board : RABBET
14
Blast furnace input : IRONORE
15
Target of a deadly attack : JUGULAR
16
I may be replaced by it : ROYALWE
17
Encouraged by others, in a way : ONADARE
18
Visa statement abbr. : APR
19
Makes a scene? : DIRECTS
21
"___-ching!" : CHA
22
Not rouge : NOIR
24
Tie : NEXUS
25
It requires 32 cards : SKAT
26
"Musée des Beaux Arts" poet : AUDEN
28
Mozart's "L'Oca ___ Cairo" : DEL
29
Drunken : BEERY
30
Obsolescent communication : TELEX
32
Paleontological study : CAVEART
34
Some club members : ELKS
36
Jazz bit : RIFF
37
Bit of gunpowder : TEALEAF
40
Vegetable sponge : LOOFA
43
Heart's-ease : PANSY
44
It may be corny : TOE
46
___ body (cell part) : GOLGI
48
Old character : RUNE
49
Crusade : JIHAD
51
"My Heart Will Go On" singer : DION
52
Word before while : ERE
53
Shacks : LEANTOS
55
Spain's Victoria Eugenia, familiarly : ENA
56
Grand master? : PIANIST
58
Strands, perhaps : SNOWSIN
60
Direction for a 56-Across : ANDANTE
61
Stunned : INADAZE
62
Approvals : YESSES
63
Company in a prominent 2000 lawsuit : NAPSTER
Down
1
Amazonian menace: Var. : PIRANA
2
Classless one? : DROPOUT
3
It might be done 17-Across : JOYRIDE
4
Suffix with Shakespeare : ANA
5
It's found in a foundry : MOLD
6
Gen. Rommel : ERWIN
7
Fume : SEERED
8
No big babies : RUNTS
9
"What ___!" : AGAS
10
Frost victim : BUD
11
Less cheery : BLACKER
12
She never reached Howland Island : EARHART
13
Place for signatures : TREATY
15
Facetious : JOCULAR
20
Inc. reader, perhaps : EXEC
23
Opener : RELEASE
25
Crab, e.g. : SEAFOOD
27
Poet Sachs : NELLY
29
Blur : BEFOG
31
Jaguar model : XKE
33
Disney's Cruella De ___ : VIL
35
Oversupply : SATIATE
37
Bully? : TAURINE
38
The planets and others : ENNEADS
39
Warm Alpine wind : FOHN
41
Charges : FLIESAT
42
Go through hell : AGONIZE
43
Settle beforehand : PREPAY
45
Has a quiet dinner, say : EATSIN
47
Comparatively cockamamie : INANER
49
Is 15-Down : JESTS
50
Andrews of the L.P.G.A. : DONNA
53
Bank sight : LINE
54
Cake composition : SOAP
57
"If I Ruled the World" rapper : NAS
59
Logophile's love: Abbr. : WDS

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

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