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New York Times, Friday, November 3, 2000

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
9-Down : Traffic directors?
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331.591,23673%
Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 27 Missing: {FKQWZ} This is puzzle # 40 for Mr. DiPietro. Friday freshness: 37%
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© 2000, The New York Times11/3/0 ( No. 18,623 )
Across
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Prathet Thai, previously : SIAM
5
Painfully aware people? : MASOCHISTS
15
Number for one : ARIA
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Works with curvilinear motifs : ARTNOUVEAU
17
Authority figure : LORD
18
Dojo conferrals : GREENBELTS
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One may be on the line : END
20
State capital with just 13,000 people : PIERRE
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Match maker? : SETS
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Prepare for surgery : SCRUB
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Pickle : SOUSE
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Runner Sebastian : COE
27
Performs halfheartedly, slangily : MAILSITIN
29
Dry out : DETOX
31
"___ 4 and up" : AGES
32
Lettuce arrangement : BED
33
Garage stain : OIL
34
Physically close : NESTLED
36
Saw : NOTICED
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It catches some waves: Abbr. : EEG
41
Gym unit : REP
42
Name in an old oath : JOVE
43
Gold Coast port : ACCRA
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Prevailed upon : PERSUADED
48
Granting that, briefly : THO
49
Camillo Borghese, familiarly : PAULV
51
Sci-fi novelist ___ S. Tepper : SHERI
52
One filling the bill? : BIRD
54
Kennel collection : BREEDS
56
10001 initials : NYC
57
Grow up, so to speak : ACTONESAGE
59
The Who's "___ O'Riley" : BABA
60
Bernard Malamud novel : THENATURAL
61
Not name : OMIT
62
Means of knowing : SIXTHSENSE
63
Lt. ___ Mitchell (Tom Cruise's "Top Gun" role) : PETE
Down
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Pitching pro : SALESMAN
2
Symbol of bondage : IRONCAGE
3
Hangs on the line : AIRDRIES
4
Ticked : MAD
5
Star trekkers? : MAGI
6
Taken in : ARRESTED
7
Sex hormone, e.g. : STEROID
8
Close, as a lead in baseball : ONERUN
9
Traffic directors? : CONES
10
Turning point : HUB
11
"Concord Sonata" composer : IVES
12
Prime : SELECT
13
Body image? : TATTOO
14
Cattle or chicken breed : SUSSEX
20
N.E.A. grantee : PBS
23
Winter coat : ULSTER
25
Be a People person? : EDIT
28
"___ of you ..." : IBEG
30
Black Muslim leader Muhammad : ELIJAH
33
Error message? : OOPS
35
Kind of second : LEAP
36
Respiration retarder : NERVEGAS
37
A spy may use one : CODENAME
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Entirely : EVERYBIT
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Commit : DEDICATE
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Brush up on : RELEARN
43
Flies may result from them : ATBATS
44
Affected : CHICHI
45
Memory site : CORTEX
46
Dog : PURSUE
47
Enterprise leader? : USS
50
Looks out for, maybe : ABETS
53
Stop order? : DONT
55
Take-out order? : DELE
58
"I don't think so" : NAH
59
Conk : BOP

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

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