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New York Times, Friday, April 14, 2000

Author:
Martin Ashwood-Smith
Editor:
Will Shortz
19-Down : Layabout
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Martin Ashwood-Smith

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 3, (1 triple stack) Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 40 for Mr. Ashwood-Smith. Friday freshness: 2%
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© 2000, The New York Times4/14/0 ( No. 18,420 )
Across
1
___ signum (here is the proof) : ECCE
5
Surprise birth : OCTUPLET
13
Norse saint : OLAV
14
Tyro : APPRENTICE
16
It smells great : NOSE
17
Well source : WATERTABLE
18
Less thick : SPARSER
20
Funnyman Philips : EMO
21
Country butter : RAM
22
Math degree : NTH
23
Former sports org. : AFL
25
Grub : EATS
26
Abbr. on some mail : APO
28
Verdi villain : IAGO
30
German phone book section : VON
32
Ottawa official : GOVERNORGENERAL
38
Sled puller : ALASKANMALAMUTE
39
Techies : SYSTEMSANALYSTS
40
"___ on my bed my limbs I lay": Coleridge : ERE
41
It's inflated in England : TYRE
42
Use a shuttle : TAT
43
A great many : GOBS
46
Dogmatic conclusion? : ISM
47
Electrical unit : REL
49
Squeeze (out) : EKE
50
Yes and no follower : SIR
52
Utmost : EXTREME
56
Not local : NATIONWIDE
59
One of the Oceanides, in Greek myth : ASIA
60
Spies : OPERATIVES
61
Bottom lines : SUMS
62
Parts of airplane wings : AILERONS
63
Sign language pioneer Abbé de l'___ : EPEE
Down
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A long time to wait : EONS
2
Hoofbeat : CLOP
3
Rakes : CASANOVAS
4
Flip : EVERT
5
Go (for) : OPT
6
Bob's place : CREEL
7
What-you-may-call-it? : TERM
8
Gay Talese's "___ the Sons" : UNTO
9
School tie? : PTA
10
Start of a fall : LIBRA
11
Big success : ECLAT
12
Bursts at the seams : TEEMS
14
Wow : AWE
15
Ideals : PARAGONS
19
Layabout : SHIRKER
24
Gets organized : FORMATS
25
Other side : ENEMY
26
Foreign titles : AGAS
27
Cal ___ : POLY
29
Make ___ for oneself : ANAME
30
Like some consonants, in phonetics : VELAR
31
Ready for trouble : ONALERT
33
Met bass-baritone Simon : ESTES
34
Moon on which Heinlein's "Farmer in the Sky" is set : GANYMEDE
35
Prepares, as grub : RUSTLESUP
36
Lead-in to boy or girl : ATTA
37
First word on a military memorial : LEST
43
Niccolò Paganini's birthplace : GENOA
44
Relative of a giraffe : OKAPI
45
Kind of nut : BETEL
46
Avant-gardist Robert : IRWIN
48
Take off : ERASE
50
Take off : SOAR
51
Obsessed with : INTO
53
Tic-tac-toe side : XES
54
Charades, essentially : MIME
55
Peacefulness : EASE
57
Pique condition? : IRE
58
E.R. inserts : IVS

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

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