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New York Times, Saturday, August 26, 2000

Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Down : Super scooper
TotalDebutLatest
2531/26/19565/22/2005
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41.5234018556%
A. J. Santora

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 25 Missing: {FJQWXZ} This is puzzle # 240 for Mr. Santora. Saturday freshness: 52%
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© 2000, The New York Times8/26/0 ( No. 18,554 )
Across
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Old United States maps, e.g. : AMERICANA
10
Goes over : SPANS
15
Cause for a pause : SEMICOLON
16
Want badly : COVET
17
News preceder, often : PRIMETIME
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1940's-90's actress Valli : ALIDA
19
Feverish : ILL
20
Old-fashioned transport : STEAMER
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Chair part : ARM
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"The Children of the Poor" author : RIIS
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Off ___ : ANDON
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"All ___!" (captain's cry) : STOP
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Gay leader? : ENOLA
29
Literally, "lion city" : SINGAPORE
31
With 34-Down, bygone Baltic language : OLD
33
Stored, in a way : CELLARED
34
Benjamin Franklin handiwork : PROVERB
38
"I'm O.K. with it" : SUITSME
39
Brown studies : REVERIES
41
Mai ___ : TAI
42
Not yet explored : UNENTERED
44
Fires : SACKS
48
Kind of loser : SORE
49
Round lot unit : SHARE
51
Foreign currency : LIRE
52
Relief : SUB
53
Bun makers, e.g. : STYLERS
55
Universal Human Rights Month: Abbr. : NOV
56
Architect Jones : INIGO
58
Tomato consommé : MADRILENE
60
Follow : ACTON
61
Railroad supervisors : ENGINEMEN
62
Mendicant : NEEDY
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Is affected by a sidewinder : SEESSTARS
Down
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Not be resigned to one's lot : ASPIRE
2
Arthur's boyhood mentor : MERLIN
3
Physics Nobelist Segrè : EMILIO
4
Pacific ___ : RIM
5
Clinches : ICES
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Baked, in Bari : COTTA
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Bigheaded ones? : ALIENS
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Always on the go? : NOMADIC
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Some zoophytes : ANEMONES
10
Vet's pride, perhaps : SCAR
11
Seat seeker : POL
12
United workers : AVIATORS
13
"War Scenes" composer : NEDROREM
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Ranch ruckus : STAMPEDE
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Wolf down : ENGLUT
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Independent national since 1991 : SLOVENE
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Like some relationships : SPATIAL
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Yellow ___ : ALERT
30
Butch Cassidy, e.g. : ALIAS
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Least interesting : DRIEST
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See 31-Across : PRUSSIAN
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Abandon : RENOUNCE
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Job for an orthodontist : OVERBITE
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Celebrates in verse : BERHYMES
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Shipping route : SEALANE
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Super scooper : DREDGE
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Picture presenter : CINEMA
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Danish bread : KRONER
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So-so pair : SEVENS
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Words before "human" : ERRIS
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Sharp competitor : SONY
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Displeases 57-Down : SINS
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See 54-Down : GOD
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Divulge, with "out" : LET

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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