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New York Times, Saturday, July 12, 2008

Author:
Myles Callum
Editor:
Will Shortz
48-Down : Bars that gradually get smaller
TotalDebutLatest
223/17/19997/12/2008
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1144165
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5012568%
Myles Callum

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 27 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 22 for Mr. Callum. Saturday freshness: 87%
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© 2008, The New York Times7/12/8 ( No. 21,431 )
Across
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911 pest, e.g. : CRANKCALLER
12
V.P. between Wallace and Barkley : HST
15
D. H. Lawrence novel made into a 1969 film : WOMENINLOVE
16
Time for Tours tourists? : ETE
17
Many a first course : TOSSEDSALAD
18
Dull finish? : ARD
19
Hit with a heavy blow : SMOTE
20
Had sum problems : MISADDED
22
30-day winter month : SHEBAT
25
Flip : SASSY
26
1999 Clorox acquisition : STP
29
"A penny saved is a penny earned," e.g. : OLDSAW
31
Fed. accident investigator : NTSB
32
Makes a big hit : TRIPLES
34
Home of the Museum of International Folk Art : SANTAFE
36
Quinn who played Annie in film : AILEEN
37
Land at a Spanish airport? : TIERRA
38
Be down, apparently : LOOKSAD
40
Clown : FUNSTER
41
Idaho motto starter : ESTO
42
Least likely to crack : SANEST
44
Parisian possessive : SES
45
Ones with shovellike forefeet : MOLES
47
What a virtuous woman is worth more than, according to Proverbs 31:10 : RUBIES
49
Aromatic herbal quaff : ANISETEA
51
___ Dove (the constellation Columba) : NOAHS
55
Follow closely (along) : TAG
56
Restaurant parties, often : DINNERDATES
59
Archaic ending : ETH
60
Fruit with a pit, to a Brit : AVOCADOPEAR
61
Got into the swing, say : SAT
62
Clandestine classroom communicators : NOTEPASSERS
Down
1
100-lb. units : CWTS
2
Study, e.g. : ROOM
3
Childish retort : AMSO
4
Flight destinations : NESTS
5
Desk features : KNEEHOLES
6
Enemy of the Moors, with "the" : CID
7
True, at times: Abbr. : ANS
8
Cud chewers : LLAMAS
9
Alluring adolescents : LOLITAS
10
NASA spacewalks : EVAS
11
"Yet do thy cheeks look ___ Titan's face": Shak. : REDAS
12
Track edges : HEADSTARTS
13
Unpressured : STRESSFREE
14
Comforters on kids' beds : TEDDYBEARS
21
"The Count of Monte Cristo" hero : DANTES
23
"Uncle Vanya" wife and others : ELENAS
24
What directors sit on: Abbr. : BDS
26
Play halters : STALEMATES
27
Any one of Handel's Op. 2 pieces : TRIOSONATA
28
Longtime flame? : PILOTLIGHT
30
Mashed potato alternative : WATUSI
33
Sri Lanka exports : PEKOES
35
They're hooked up to some TV's : NINTENDOS
39
Be more than reluctant to : DARENOT
40
American Heart Mo. : FEB
43
Shade : NUANCE
46
French city that shares its name with a car : SEDAN
48
Bars that gradually get smaller : SOAPS
50
It can stop the show : TIVO
52
Exactly, after "to" : ATEE
53
Catch, in a way : HEAR
54
Bygone grp. of 15 : SSRS
57
"To Helen" writer's inits. : EAP
58
Salt std., e.g. : RDA

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

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