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New York Times, Thursday, November 16, 2000

Author:
Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes
Editor:
Will Shortz
29-Down : Diminish
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
11612/29/199311/26/200845
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2015151219278
RebusScrabDebutFresh
71.5252247%
Harvey Estes

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJQVXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 63 for Ms. Salomon. This is puzzle # 54 for Mr. Estes. Thursday freshness: 49%
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© 2000, The New York Times11/16/0 ( No. 18,636 )
Across
1
Not a part of from the start : ADOPTED
8
Extra : SURPLUS
15
"South Pacific" song : BALIHAI
16
Like some shares : PRORATA
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Exclamatory actor? : BYGEORGECLOONEY
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Surf sound : ROAR
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Naldi of the Ziegfeld Follies : NITA
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Makes a switch : SWAPS
22
Big-chinned chinner : LENO
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Sot's woe : DTS
24
Comparatively plenty : AMPLER
28
L.A. Clippers are in it : NBA
30
Physique, informally : BOD
33
Mawkish : GOOEY
34
Kind of diet : SCARSDALE
37
Exclamatory best-selling author? : GREATSCOTTTUROW
39
Owing money : INTHEHOLE
40
Love lots : ADORE
41
Suffix with count : ESS
42
Mousehawk : OWL
43
Hot : TRENDY
44
Old New Yorker cartoonist Hoff : SYD
46
Furry "Star Wars" creature : EWOK
48
Utter : STATE
51
Old-time oath : EGAD
52
Become unhinged : SNAP
56
Exclamatory basketball star? : HOLYMOSESMALONE
59
Hex halters : AMULETS
60
Coach Joe of Penn State : PATERNO
61
Ticket stub, sometimes : MEMENTO
62
Hardly a person for all seasons : SNOWMAN
Down
1
Answer that's an example of itself : ABBR
2
Belafonte song opener : DAYO
3
One of Chekhov's Three Sisters : OLGA
4
Sloop slip : PIER
5
Howe'er : THO
6
Breadwinner : EARNER
7
Cook's exhortation : DIGIN
8
Watchdog org.? : SPCA
9
WWW address : URL
10
Sparrow's spot : ROOST
11
Bows : PROWS
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Actress Turner : LANA
13
Lone Star sch. : UTEP
14
Opines : SAYS
18
British prep school : ETONCOLLEGE
22
1944 battle site : LEYTE
23
What shifty eyes do : DART
24
Farming major : AGGIE
25
Early times : MORNS
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Burns and Allen, e.g. : POETS
27
Jacob's first wife : LEAH
29
Diminish : BATE
30
Man with an estate : BARON
31
"What now?!" : OLORD
32
Library system pioneer : DEWEY
34
Garbage barge : SCOW
35
Like a moonscape : STARK
36
Bro : DUDE
38
Like plow horses : SHOD
43
Goodson's game show partner : TODMAN
44
Bob, for one : STYLE
45
Red Sea nation : YEMEN
47
Aristophanes comedy, with "The" : WASPS
48
Pillow cover : SHAM
49
Voluminous volume : TOME
50
Homecoming guest : ALUM
51
Petrol brand : ESSO
52
Lot : SLEW
53
Benchmark : NORM
54
"___ and the King" (Foster film) : ANNA
55
Lowly laborer : PEON
57
Giant of old : OTT
58
From ___ Z : ATO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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