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New York Times, Tuesday, August 22, 2000

Author:
Ed Early
Editor:
Will Shortz
34-Down : 5¢/gallon, e.g.
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
557/7/19947/14/20081
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1917117442
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5419532%
Ed Early

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JKQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 19 for Mr. Early. Tuesday freshness: 11%
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© 2000, The New York Times8/22/0 ( No. 18,550 )
Across
1
"You missed a ___!" : SPOT
5
Hilo hello : ALOHA
10
Summer place : CAMP
14
Heather Headley title role on Broadway : AIDA
15
Lions' locks : MANES
16
Concluded : OVER
17
2000 runner : GEORGEBUSH
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Alternative to hot pants : MINI
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Go astray : ERR
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They're on tap in taprooms : ALES
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Coats with gold : GILDS
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Stir up : ROIL
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Humor that's not funny : SARCASM
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Classic Chevy : IMPALA
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Broadway aunt : MAME
30
___ dog (backwoods animal) : COON
31
Game for the asocial : SOLITAIRE
36
What 55-Across is to 17-Across : ELECTIONANAGRAM
39
Toppled, in a way : DETHRONED
40
Reply to the Little Red Hen : NOTI
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"Off with you!" : AWAY
42
Frank : WIENER
44
Part of a freight train : FLATCAR
48
___ on (orders to attack) : SICS
49
Ill-gotten gains : LUCRE
50
Prego competitor : RAGU
51
Part of a litter : PUP
54
Sparkling wine center : ASTI
55
See 36-Across : HEBUGSGORE
58
Rung : STEP
59
Restaurateur of song : ALICE
60
Brezhnev's land : USSR
61
Famous alter ego : HYDE
62
Got smart, with "up" : WISED
63
Ravioli filler : MEAT
Down
1
Solomon : SAGE
2
Jetty : PIER
3
Locker room emanation : ODOR
4
Driveway material : TAR
5
Aviator Earhart : AMELIA
6
RCA or Columbia : LABEL
7
Burden : ONUS
8
"___ a Rebel" (1962 #1 hit) : HES
9
Straight-grained wood : ASH
10
Chris Rock, for one : COMIC
11
1950's Indians All-Star Bobby : AVILA
12
Darns : MENDS
13
Rainbow maker : PRISM
18
Famous Dartmoor facility : GAOL
22
Garbo of "Anna Christie" : GRETA
23
Dude's place? : RANCH
24
First course, maybe : SALAD
25
Notorious Idi : AMIN
26
Like shrimp during shipping : ICED
27
Infiltrator : MOLE
28
Langston Hughes, e.g. : POET
29
Dollars and Deutsche marks : MONEY
31
Echo analyzer : SONAR
32
Choreographer de Mille : AGNES
33
Monopoly token : IRON
34
5¢/gallon, e.g. : RATE
35
Head of state in Kuwait : EMIR
37
Vestige : TRACE
38
Where Red Delicious apples originated : IOWA
42
Like a London jurist : WIGGED
43
Some hosp. rooms : ICUS
44
Jiffy : FLASH
45
Robust : LUSTY
46
Functioned : ACTED
47
Rubbish : TRIPE
48
50-Across, e.g. : SAUCE
50
McGwire stats : RBIS
51
Sit for a photograph : POSE
52
___ Minor : URSA
53
Overly familiar, maybe : PERT
55
Hee's follower : HAW
56
Whitney of gin fame : ELI
57
Ruin, with "up" : GUM

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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