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New York Times, Saturday, November 6, 1999

Author:
Joan Bayer Williamson
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Down : Many are buried at Westminster Abbey
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Joan Williamson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FQXZ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Williamson. Saturday freshness: 2%
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© 1999, The New York Times11/6/99 ( No. 18,260 )
Across
1
Major Adams of "Wagon Train" and others : SETHS
6
Face-saver? : MASK
10
Some crossword clues : PUNS
14
"Foreign Affairs" Pulitzer winner : LURIE
15
Rug source : IRAN
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Side with? : ABUT
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The Beatles' "___ Your Name" : ICALL
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It may be held underwater : NOSE
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Time out? : COMA
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First published black woman poet in America : PHILLISWHEATLEY
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Spigoted container : URN
24
Noisy flier : SST
25
Aladdin's simian sidekick : ABU
26
Prefix with oxide : TRI
27
Early Inverness resident : PICT
29
"Catch-22" pilot : ORR
31
Urges : EGGSON
33
Animal catcher : SNARE
35
Disney head : EISNER
37
Immortalizer of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen : GRANTLANDRICE
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Magical utterance : PRESTO
42
Thong : STRAP
44
Service provider : PARSON
47
More than move : AWE
49
Causing puckering, perhaps : SOUR
50
Latin series starter : AMO
51
Big hit in the comics : BAM
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It may be made in short order : BLT
55
Stock follower : ADE
56
"American Appetites" novelist : JOYCECAROLOATES
60
___ Sea (Amu Darya's outlet) : ARAL
61
Fancy : IDEA
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With us : ALIVE
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Driver's license designation : MALE
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Smudge on a Dear John letter? : TEAR
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See 64-Across : STAIN
66
Plus : ALSO
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Stock follower : YARD
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Persuasion : TENET
Down
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Goofs : SLIPUPS
2
Hoodwinking : EUCHRING
3
Smoker, for one : TRAINCAR
4
Eminence : HILL
5
Flies off the shelf, so to speak : SELLS
6
Lay people? : MINSTRELS
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Forming ranks : AROW
8
Basketballer Danilovic : SASHA
9
Quadriceps strengthener : KNEEBEND
10
Agreement : PACT
11
Horseshoe-shaped fasteners : UBOLTS
12
Dos, e.g. : NUMERO
13
Forgo a night on the town : STAYIN
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The same, at first? : ISO
22
Bits of carpentry : AUGERS
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Uses a 33-Across : TRAPS
30
Steer stopper : RIATA
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Corny side : GRITS
34
Attire : ENROBE
36
Go downhill fast? : SNOWBOARD
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Stick-to-it-iveness : TENACITY
39
Like part of the Adriatic coast : CROATIAN
40
Fruit brandy : EAUDEVIE
43
Answering roll call : PRESENT
44
Kind of party : PAJAMA
45
Libertine : AMORAL
46
Many are buried at Westminster Abbey : ROYALS
48
Plumber's pipe : ELL
52
Skoaled : MADEA
54
See 52-Down : TOAST
57
1963 role for Liz : CLEO
58
Stern : REAR
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Der ___ (German "father") : ALTE

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

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