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New York Times, Thursday, May 3, 2001

Author:
Trip Payne
Editor:
Will Shortz
2-Down : Sewing machine attachments
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
464/10/19948/3/20211
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1034463133
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
421.5333861%
Trip Payne

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 16 for Mr. Payne. Thursday freshness: 23%
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© 2001, The New York Times5/3/1 ( No. 18,804 )
Across
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Overthrown leader : SHAH
5
Not out : AWAKE
10
See 61-Down : LIFT
14
Actress Lamarr : HEDY
15
Beau's gift : ROSES
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Till fill : ONES
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Speaker of the quip starting at 20-Across : EMOPHILIPS
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It has the spirit : CASK
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Start of a quip : IMNOTAFATALIST
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Slightest : LEAST
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Word of agreement : AYE
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Sharp flavor : NIP
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"Kate & Allie" actress Meyers : ARI
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Young fowl : POULT
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It could be stuffed : OLIVE
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Old station identification : ESSO
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Had : ATE
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Main city of Devon : EXETER
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Quip, part 2 : BUTEVENIF
40
Haunt : OBSESS
43
Jeff Lynne group : ELO
44
"My Uncle" star : TATI
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Chekhov uncle : VANYA
49
It should set off alarms : HEIST
51
Informal footwear : MOC
52
Flutter : ADO
53
One of the Volcano Islands, for short : IWO
55
Jobs site : APPLE
57
Quip, part 3 : IWEREWHATCOULD
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Subjoins : ADDS
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End of the quip : IDOABOUTIT
64
Saddle, e.g. : SEAT
65
Tel Aviv-born person : SABRA
66
French jeweler Lalique : RENE
67
"Chickery Chick" bandleader : KAYE
68
Smithery employee : SHOER
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Genesis source : SEGA
Down
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"The Glamorous Life" singer : SHEILAE
2
Sewing machine attachments : HEMMERS
3
Shelley's elegy to Keats : ADONAIS
4
Some needles : HYPOS
5
___ cantabile (gentle, sad song) : ARIA
6
Whistle maker? : WOLF
7
China setting : ASIA
8
Persisted in : KEPTAT
9
Paper : ESSAY
10
Spots : LOCI
11
Ticked off : INASNIT
12
Merry : FESTIVE
13
"You naughty person!" : TSK
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Start of many addresses : HTTP
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Paul V's papal predecessor : LEOXI
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Part of w.p.m. : PER
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They can be rolled : OATS
29
Tribal language : UTE
30
Bank : LEVEE
32
It's just not right : LEFT
34
Follow : OBEY
36
TV spinoff of 1980 : ENOS
38
Carrier name until 1997 : USAIR
39
Biblical judge : ELI
40
Plant gametes : OVA
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"I wouldn't do that" : BADIDEA
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Winter break, of a sort : SNOWDAY
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Person with a loss : AMPUTEE
46
Sexton's duty : TOLLING
47
Summer drink : ICEDTEA
49
Platform on the back of an elephant : HOWDAH
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Kind of shell : TACO
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Houdini's birth name : WEISS
56
Really rains : POURS
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Princely family name of old : ESTE
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Transient : HOBO
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Bern is on it : AARE
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With 10-Across, skier's aid : TBAR
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"Shoot!" : ASK

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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