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New York Times, Friday, February 23, 2001

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
41-Down : Cornered
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1418/26/19955/9/20241
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
311092443303
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
331.591,23673%
Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {FJQV} This is puzzle # 46 for Mr. DiPietro. Friday freshness: 67%
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© 2001, The New York Times2/23/1 ( No. 18,735 )
Across
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Secret holder : DOSSIER
8
Like some blankets : THERMAL
15
Like a waltz : INTHREE
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The very start : WORDONE
17
Music : STRAINS
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"1984" land : EURASIA
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Toasts : CHARS
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They have bishops : CHESSSETS
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Newspaper publisher Whitelaw ___ : REID
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Pale yellow : MAIZE
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Was on the bottom? : SAT
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Like Bacon and Lamb: Abbr. : ENG
26
Rang : CALLEDUP
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"How stupid of me!" : DOH
30
Toe loop alternatives : AXELS
31
Funnyman Elliott : CHRIS
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Strips on a map : ISTHMI
37
Nowheresville : PODUNK
38
Chaff : TEASE
39
Old-fashioned farm apparatus : CHURN
42
Sprint alternative : MCI
43
Attacked, as a bag of chips : TOREOPEN
45
Cartoonist Keane : BIL
46
Tough wood : ASH
49
Super Bowl XXXIII M.V.P. : ELWAY
50
Carpenter's groove : DADO
51
Best on the balance beam, maybe : STEADIEST
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Like fall leaves : RAKED
55
Does in, in a way : POISONS
56
Major disruption : RIOTING
58
"Told you so!" : IKNEWIT
59
Core : ESSENCE
60
"Mont Sainte-Victoire" painter : CEZANNE
61
Surfaces : EMERGES
Down
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Drag through the mud : DISCREDIT
2
To a T : ONTHENOSE
3
Kind of student : STRAIGHTA
4
Dig discovery : SHARD
5
Electra's daughter : IRIS
6
Literary contraction : EEN
7
Alter, as an image : RESCALE
8
Is plucky? : TWEEZES
9
Put up : HOUSED
10
Stumbles : ERRS
11
Figures to be maintained? : RDAS
12
Purported Pentateuch penner : MOSES
13
With 21-Down, Clarence Thomas's accuser : ANITA
14
Kind of resistance? : LEAST
21
See 13-Down : HILL
23
Long, as a garment : MAXI
26
Part on the side? : CAMEO
27
1999 N.C.A.A. hoops champs : UCONN
28
A grad may be working on it : PHD
32
Xavier Cugat's nickname : RUMBAKING
33
Frequency : INCIDENCE
34
Some vacation accommodations : SKILODGES
36
He upset T.E.D. in 1948 : HST
37
Game, maybe : PREY
39
Babar's wife : CELESTE
40
"___ that again?" : HOWS
41
Cornered : UPATREE
44
Check : REININ
46
Jellied garnish : ASPIC
47
Stir up : STOKE
48
Pickle producer : HEINZ
50
Post office gizmo : DATER
52
Like many hurricanes : ASEA
53
Depressed : DOWN
54
York symbol : ROSE
57
Follower of Lenin or Stalin : ISM

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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