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New York Times, Friday, April 20, 2001

Author:
Chuck Deodene
Editor:
Will Shortz
14-Down : Does some work in a tennis shop
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Chuck Deodene

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JQVWXZ} This is puzzle # 31 for Mr. Deodene. Friday freshness: 51%
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© 2001, The New York Times4/20/1 ( No. 18,791 )
Across
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Playing for meal money : SEMIPRO
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Bottom drawer, maybe : CRISPER
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Constituent of pitchblende : URANIUM
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800 number, perhaps : HOTLINE
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"The Case of the Musical Cow" writer : GARDNER
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Is rife : ABOUNDS
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Depleted : ATEUP
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"To know me ___ ..." : ISTO
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Bridgelike game : SKAT
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Heater : ROSCOE
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Bow : ARC
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Mister, abroad : HERR
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Upend : TIP
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It may be pitched : ROOF
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Philippe, e.g. : ROI
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California college : POMONA
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Famed Rio hotspot, with "the" : COPA
35
252 wine gallons : TUN
36
Discrete : APART
37
Three Gorges project : DAM
38
Flip-flop feature : THONG
40
___ Hoek (cartoon pooch) : REN
41
Coins displaying fleurs-de-lis : ECUS
43
Part of a ballpark : STANDS
44
Angular head? : TRI
45
Fumble-fingers : DOLT
46
Word repeated before Marie in a 1918 song title : OUI
47
Hurtle : RACE
49
Worldcom partner : MCI
50
Skin-related : DERMAL
54
Conductor Markevitch : IGOR
55
Snaps : PICS
57
Sting, in a way : SNARE
58
Pampers : DOTESON
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Like noodles, often : ALDENTE
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Be too precious : GETCUTE
63
Tidy type : NEATNIK
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United Nations member since 1993 : ERITREA
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Acquiesces : SAYSYES
Down
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Dollface : SUGAR
2
Goddess pictured with a lyre and a crown of roses : ERATO
3
Some bays and grays : MARES
4
Circuitry coil : INDUCTOR
5
Zeroed in on : PINPOINTED
6
Fret over, maybe : RUE
7
Katz of "Dallas" : OMRI
8
Information Age salon : CHATROOM
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Cyborg enforcer : ROBOCOP
10
Mame's butler in "Auntie Mame" : ITO
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Cooling drink : SLUSH
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Sleuth from Glasgow : PINKERTON
13
Evasive maneuver in football : ENDAROUND
14
Does some work in a tennis shop : RESTRINGS
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Full of barbs : SARCASTIC
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Eco-friendly feds : EPA
29
Big Easy bacchanal : FATTUESDAY
31
Quaillike bird : PARTRIDGE
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Donizetti fan, e.g. : OPERAGOER
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Baked tubes : MANICOTTI
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Don Quixote's doña : DULCINEA
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Mess headgear : HAIRNETS
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Bowl with a base and stem : COMPOTE
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Ground cover : SOD
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Posture-perfect : ERECT
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Four-time baseball All-Star ___ Trillo : MANNY
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First name in jazz : ARTIE
53
Stew ingredients : LEEKS
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Lacking : SANS
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Ivry-___-Seine (Paris suburb) : SUR
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Pastureland : LEA

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

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