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New York Times, Saturday, May 18, 2002

Author:
Trip Payne
Editor:
Will Shortz
9-Down : Soapmaking compound
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
464/10/19948/3/20211
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1034463133
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
421.5333861%
Trip Payne

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 25 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 21 for Mr. Payne. Saturday freshness: 88%
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© 2002, The New York Times5/18/2 ( No. 19,184 )
Across
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Reach feet-first, say : SLIDEINTO
10
Place for sweat glands and hair follicles : DERMA
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Polar region dweller : EAREDSEAL
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Music hall : ODEUM
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Not predestined : AVOIDABLE
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"A Passage to India" heroine : ADELA
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Liking : FANCY
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Moles might not use them : REALNAMES
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Kind of arch : OGEE
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Filter-feeder fish : MANTAS
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Post markers, for short? : EDS
25
Struck : XED
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Like most phone numbers : LISTED
27
Place to find dates : TREE
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Range features : PEAKS
29
First person to break Mach 1 : YEAGER
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Revered sage : MAHATMA
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Catfight participants, e.g. : CLAWERS
35
1972 Jack Lemmon comedy : AVANTI
36
Tries to get a rise out of : BAITS
37
Go soft, in a way : MELT
38
Pursues : STALKS
40
One star, maybe : PAN
43
Big inits. in bowling : AMF
44
Reporter's need : SOURCE
45
Bowwow : FIDO
46
Jane Fonda title role : CATBALLOU
48
Shoreline curve : BIGHT
49
As ___ (mostly) : ARULE
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Alfresco : INTHEOPEN
52
Traffic stopper : SIREN
53
"New Piano in Town" musician : PETERNERO
54
Bygone Vegas hotel : SANDS
55
Go back to square one : STARTANEW
Down
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Thresher shark : SEAFOX
2
Washing : LAVAGE
3
Resolved, with "out" : IRONED
4
Prepare wings, perhaps : DEICE
5
Small revolver : EDDY
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Old Testament book: Abbr. : ISA
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Boys Town setting : NEBRASKA
8
Biblical money : TALENTS
9
Soapmaking compound : OLEATE
10
___ Pills : DOANS
11
13th-century collection : EDDA
12
Come out of quarantine : REEMERGE
13
Whitetail relative : MULEDEER
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Pack rats : AMASSERS
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Feminine : LADYLIKE
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W.N.B.A. team : MIAMISOL
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Neighbor of a Belarussian : LETT
27
Shooters : TAWS
28
Kind of leg : PANT
30
Takes a course? : EATS
31
"Dream a Little Dream of Me" singer : MAMACASS
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Gounod song based on a Bach prelude : AVEMARIA
33
Reversal : HALFTURN
34
Where Thackeray was born : CALCUTTA
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Certain sir : BARONET
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Pennsylvania Dutch pottery design : TULIPS
40
Mud hole : PIGPEN
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Hang on : ADHERE
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Later : NOTNOW
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Saint-___ : SAENS
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"Criminal" singer Apple : FIONA
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Felt sorrow : BLED
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"Mary Poppins" fellow : BERT
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Ship designation : HER

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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