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New York Times, Friday, July 14, 2000

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Down : Malodorous: Var.
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1938/7/199612/22/202321
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQVZ} Spans: 3, (1 triple stack) This is puzzle # 39 for Mr. Quigley. Friday freshness: 21%
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G
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A
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F
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F
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B
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R
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O
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W
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T
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M
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N
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© 2000, The New York Times7/14/0 ( No. 18,511 )
Across
1
Iron hook with a handle : GAFF
5
Place to have locks changed : BARBERSHOP
15
Bus or air alternative : RAIL
16
Bach wrote a concerto in A for it : OBOEDAMORE
17
With 10-Down, "Charmaine" songwriter : ERNO
18
Articulate : WELLSPOKEN
19
___ roll : EGG
20
New York Cosmos star : PELE
21
Discharge : EGEST
22
It's interested in interest : THEFED
24
"The Oblong Box" writer : POE
26
Spawn : ROE
27
"Which Way ___?" (1977 film) : ISUP
29
File holder : DISC
33
Pirate of note : ROBERTOCLEMENTE
37
1980 Rolling Stones hit : EMOTIONALRESCUE
38
39
Let the cat out of the bag : TOLD
40
Crescent point : CUSP
41
South extension : ERN
42
Flee : LAM
43
One of Hines's varieties : TOETAP
46
Like a 16-Across : REEDY
50
Fan's production : WHIR
52
Stretch, with "out" : EKE
53
Some animals are close to it : EXTINCTION
56
Bahrain power? : AMIR
57
Part of a forest bed : PINENEEDLE
58
Doing : UPTO
59
Paloverde and pecan : STATETREES
60
"A Kind of Loving" novelist Barstow : STAN
Down
1
Nod to, maybe : GREET
2
Exasperation exclamation : AARGH
3
You may dip into it at dinner : FINGERBOWL
4
Impresario Ziegfeld : FLO
5
Not erect : BOWED
6
Director Gance : ABEL
7
Auditioner's quest : ROLE
8
___ and the Dragon (book of the Apocrypha) : BEL
9
Mad people, for short? : EDS
10
See 17-Across : RAPEE
11
Unpleasant hangover? : SMOG
12
Jazz (up) : HOKE
13
Bonanza finds : ORES
14
Cooped : PENT
20
Look through a keyhole : PEERIN
23
Malodorous: Var. : FOETID
24
Exercise unit : PULLUP
25
35-Down, for one : OPERA
27
Radioactive isotope having mass 230 : IONIUM
28
Gets lost : SCATS
29
It may be burning : DESIRE
30
Having ignored a subpoena, perhaps : INCONTEMPT
31
Overpower : STUN
32
Couple in contact? : CEES
33
"La Vie Bohème" musical : RENT
34
1847 tale of the South Seas : OMOO
35
Musical premiere of 1900 : TOSCA
36
Part of a shower scene? : METEOR
42
Novelist ___ Reid Banks : LYNNE
43
Points at dinner : TINES
44
Dog with a curled-back tail : AKITA
45
1940's-50's dictator : PERON
46
Lifters count them : REPS
47
Turnoff : EXIT
48
Burial place of the Greek giant Enceladus : ETNA
49
Down less : DIET
50
Like some loads : WIDE
51
Can you dig it? : HOLE
54
This, to Héloïse : CET
55
Rx word : TER
56
Linz locale: Abbr. : AUS

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

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