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New York Times, Friday, March 7, 2008

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
27-Down : Set off
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1085/21/20021/14/20184
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
81318151217619
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
431.5850462%
Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 32 Missing: {QX} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 30 for Ms. Gamache. Friday freshness: 94%
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© 2008, The New York Times3/7/8 ( No. 21,304 )
Across
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Climbing Mt. Everest, for Sir Edmund Hillary : CLAIMTOFAME
12
1937 Paul Muni drama : THEWOMANILOVE
14
Art, metaphorically : JEALOUSMISTRESS
16
History : ANNALS
17
Probe : POKEINTO
18
Manfred ___ Earth Band : MANNS
19
Roman well : BENE
20
Basic verse option : ABAB
21
Whacked : ICED
22
Drum containers : EARS
23
Site of the siege of Candia : CRETE
24
Feaster on frogs : EEL
25
Legato indicator : SLUR
26
Coast Guard boat : CUTTER
27
It's hard to recall : DIMMEMORY
29
Cowboys, but not Indians : NFLERS
32
Fitting decision? : SIZE
33
Clued in, once : HEP
36
Stains : BLOTS
37
Delicate : AIRY
38
Singer who is part owner of Forbes magazine : BONO
39
First name in fragrances : COCO
40
"In that area" : ORSO
41
Cousin in a Balzac title : BETTE
42
Cut across : TRANSECT
44
Reminiscent of the 1890s : GASLIT
45
Census Bureau data : VITALSTATISTICS
47
Only if it's worth the trade-off : NOTATANYPRICE
48
London Zoo locale : REGENTSPARK
Down
1
Remote access? : CHANNEL
2
Stanford of Stanford University : LELAND
3
Base runners? : AWOLS
4
Evidence that one is short : IOUS
5
A foot has 305 of these: Abbr. : MMS
6
Like most medicine bottles : TAMPERRESISTANT
7
Things in rings : ONIONS
8
Big name in college guides : FISKE
9
Old one, along the Oder : ALTE
10
Holmes fought him : MORIARTY
11
50-50 proposition : EVENBET
12
Hand holding : TENACE
13
Passing subject? : ESTATE
14
Artist Wyeth : JAMIE
15
Not lit : SOBER
19
Princess Ozma's creator : BAUM
22
Nine ___ (London district) : ELMS
23
Bug zapper? : CURE
25
"Dear" ones : SIRS
26
Under a quilt, say : COZY
27
Set off : DETONATE
28
"Blue II" painter, 1961 : MIRO
29
It's headquartered in the G.E. Building : NBCTV
30
Sacramento suburb : FLORIN
31
Global positioning system, e.g. : LOCATOR
33
Bit of jazz improvisation : HOTLICK
34
Bait : ENTICE
35
Meter makers : POETS
37
Certain inverse function : ARCTAN
38
Get going : BESTIR
40
Honduras-to-Guatemala dirección : OESTE
41
City bombed in the gulf war : BASRA
43
Waste : SLAG
44
Rockne protégé : GIPP
46
Country singers England and Herndon : TYS

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

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