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New York Times, Monday, July 8, 2002

Author:
Sheldon Benardo
Editor:
Will Shortz
8-Down : "It's ___ real!"
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Sheldon Benardo

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Benardo. Monday freshness: 32%
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© 2002, The New York Times7/8/2 ( No. 19,235 )
Across
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Fraud : SCAM
5
Yemeni or Qatari : ARAB
9
Coffee lightener : CREAM
14
Show bravery : DARE
15
Over hill and ___ : DALE
16
Oscar-winning Berry : HALLE
17
Coal waste : SLAG
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Stir up : RILE
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French clerics : ABBES
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Symbol marking a composer's music? : FLATONONESBACH
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Early form of bridge : WHIST
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Waikiki wreath : LEI
25
Leave : DEPART
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Crossword solving, for one : PASTIME
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Make happy : ELATE
33
Land of O'Kelly and O'Keeffe : ERIN
35
Woman's hairstyle : BUN
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Composer's popular works? : MOSTWANTEDLISZT
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Choose : OPT
41
Emulated Pinocchio : LIED
42
Close, in poetry : ANEAR
43
Gets hot under the collar : SEESRED
46
Spirited : SPUNKY
47
Publicize : AIR
48
Powell of the Bush White House : COLIN
50
Like the dog days of summer, for a composer? : TOOHOTTOHANDEL
56
Brilliance : ECLAT
57
One of five Norwegian kings : OLAV
58
Thoroughly : ATOZ
60
Portion : SHARE
61
Cry of greed : MORE
62
Writing of Chaucer : TALE
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Marine detector : SONAR
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Ages : ERAS
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Verve : ELAN
Down
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60's protest grp. : SDS
2
Baby elephant : CALF
3
Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL
4
It can provide a big jolt : MEGAWATT
5
Skillful : ADROIT
6
What the monsoon season brings : RAINS
7
Parcel out : ALLOT
8
"It's ___ real!" : BEEN
9
Pursues : CHASES
10
Cottontail : RABBIT
11
Exile isle for Napoleon : ELBA
12
One of the Baldwins : ALEC
13
Fit well together : MESH
21
Flung : THREW
22
African antelope : ELAND
25
Show cars : DEMOS
26
Leave via ladder, maybe : ELOPE
27
Stickum : PASTE
28
___ Piper : PIED
29
"Peer Gynt" dramatist : IBSEN
30
Background sound in a store : MUZAK
31
Door : ENTRY
33
Oklahoma city : ENID
34
1 or 95: Abbr. : RTE
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Heads-up : ALERT
38
10-Down fur : LAPIN
39
Deluge : INUNDATE
44
Noted Las Vegas casino : SAHARA
45
Disorderly one : RIOTER
46
Toils (away) : SLAVES
48
Hue : COLOR
49
John who wrote "Butterfield 8" : OHARA
50
Hardy heroine : TESS
51
Cuatro + cuatro : OCHO
52
Pearl Buck heroine : OLAN
53
Volume : TOME
54
And others, for short : ETAL
55
"Damn Yankees" seductress : LOLA
59
Kind of Buddhism : ZEN

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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