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New York Times, Saturday, October 7, 2000

Author:
Chuck Menning
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Down : "___ big deal"
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Chuck Menning

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 21 Missing: {JQVWZ} Spans: 6, (2 double stacks) This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Menning. Saturday freshness: 59%
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© 2000, The New York Times10/7/0 ( No. 18,596 )
Across
1
Pretenses : FACADES
8
Bit of hunting gear : GAMEBAG
15
1983 Jean Shepherd film memoir : ACHRISTMASSTORY
17
Popular Civil War song : TRAMPTRAMPTRAMP
18
Vanity plate in a two-car household : HERS
19
Wonderland cake message : EATME
20
Stumbles : ERRS
21
Suffix with ether : EAL
22
Touch up : RESTORE
24
Vox ___ : DEI
25
Meeting convoked by an ancient king : AGORA
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Committee member, maybe: Abbr. : SEN
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A letter provides one : LEASE
30
Couldn't stand : DETESTED
32
Bluffs : FEINTS
33
Criminal subduer : TASER
34
Tore : RACED
35
One with an eye for fine clothing? : NEEDLE
37
Industrial category : TEXTILES
40
"Tiny Alice" dramatist : ALBEE
41
Problem in historical records : GAP
42
All-night bar? : ROOST
43
Fruits de ___ (menu heading) : MER
44
Paella accompaniment : SANGRIA
47
Brit. military decoration : DSO
48
Reassuring response : IMOK
50
Propose as an explanation : POSIT
51
Time, for wine : AGER
52
World leader who wrote a novel, "The Cardinal's Mistress" : BENITOMUSSOLINI
55
Reciprocal relationship : INTERDEPENDENCE
56
Dieted : ATELESS
57
Shot measures? : DOSAGES
Down
1
Ninny : FATHEAD
2
Ranch land : ACREAGE
3
Writer whose first book, 1846, sold only two copies : CHARLOTTEBRONTE
4
"There is little reason in ___": Virgil : ARMS
5
Dance move : DIP
6
First name in cosmetics : ESTEE
7
"Casablanca" villain : STRASSER
8
Smoked ham : GAMMON
9
In accordance with : ASPER
10
Colo. clock setting : MST
11
Word repeated in a French Hamlet's soliloquy : ETRE
12
What country inns provide : BOARDANDLODGING
13
It may be worn in a chair : ARMREST
14
Chorus dancers : GYPSIES
16
Ready to frame : MATTED
22
Gets down 'n' dirty : RASSLES
23
Euripides drama : ELECTRA
26
Aptly named English novelist : READE
29
Letters on a farm? : EIEIO
31
Certain intersection : TEE
32
Kind of number : FAX
34
Did again : REPRISED
35
U.N. member since 1990 : NAMIBIA
36
Natural setting : ELEMENT
37
Returns to base : TAGSUP
38
Perfume : ESSENCE
39
Levels : STORIES
41
Treasure guarders : GNOMES
45
Footless amphibians : APODS
46
"___ big deal" : ITSNO
49
German city with a harbor : KIEL
51
Epithet of Athena : ALEA
53
Italian TV channel : TRE
54
Some E.M.T. cases : ODS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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