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New York Times, Friday, September 14, 2001

Author:
Mark Diehl
Editor:
Will Shortz
45-Down : At the peak of maturity
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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3214720373
RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
31.57592888%
Mark Diehl

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 27 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 34 for Mr. Diehl. Friday freshness: 72%
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J
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U
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N
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K
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D
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A
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B
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H
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P
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G
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M
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© 2001, The New York Times9/14/1 ( No. 18,938 )
Across
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Keeper of unclassified material : JUNKDRAWER
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Having no overhead? : BALD
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It may be found under the counter : URANIUMORE
16
One providing input : USER
17
"Labyrinth" star, 1986 : DAVIDBOWIE
18
Loaded : RIFE
19
Acronym part: Abbr. : INIT
20
Strain : BREED
21
Adherents : ISTS
22
Track supporter : TIE
23
Welfare state? : NEED
24
Bellyaches : BEEFS
25
Secured, as a gate : HASPED
27
Personal standards one aspires to : EGOIDEAL
30
Flippers accompaniment : SWIMMASK
32
Hotel freebie : ICE
33
Fashionable dressmaker : MODISTE
36
Really rebuke : BLISTER
38
Hangman choice : ANI
39
Call of the wild? : BIRDSONG
41
Mr. Spock, notably : REASONER
43
Explosive ingredients : NITERS
47
Expand : SPLAY
48
Sometimes-broken promises : IDOS
50
Kind of treatment : VIP
51
Angels' dreams : HITS
52
Actor Burton : LEVAR
54
Manilow song setting : COPA
55
1980's-90's cars : GEOS
56
Done to death : OVERWORKED
58
Teen spots? : ACNE
59
TV angel portrayer : DELLAREESE
60
Core component : SEED
61
School administrations : ESSAYTESTS
Down
1
Book of the Apocrypha : JUDITH
2
Sister of Calliope : URANIA
3
Fleet runners : NAVIES
4
Word with close or hand : KNIT
5
Impersonated : DID
6
Said "nyah, nyah, nyah" : RUBBEDITIN
7
A many-splendored thing in Italy? : AMORE
8
Performed spectacularly, informally : WOWEDEM
9
Gannon University city : ERIE
10
Swamp thing : REED
11
Well out of sight : BURIED
12
Opinion opener : ASISEEIT
13
Drill directive : LEFTFACE
14
Best Actress of 1930-31 : DRESSLER
23
Paper provider : NEWSBOY
24
Tops and bottoms : BIKINIS
26
Kind of phenomena : PSI
28
Confabulates : GABS
29
Where Sonja Henie was born : OSLONORWAY
31
Just : MERE
33
Ignis fatuus source : MARSHGAS
34
Unlike 24-Down : ONEPIECE
35
It may follow a click : DIALTONE
37
Driller: Abbr. : SGT
40
Talks nonsense : DRIVELS
42
Gave grief : SASSED
44
Calls up : EVOKES
45
At the peak of maturity : RIPEST
46
Some kings : SPADES
49
Child actress Hood : DARLA
52
Glittering vein : LODE
53
Lead-in periods : EVES
54
Early buffalo hunters : CREE
57
Leaving : ORT

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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