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New York Times, Saturday, September 21, 2002

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Down : Spot
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Missing: {JQV} This is puzzle # 160 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 40%
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© 2002, The New York Times9/21/2 ( No. 19,310 )
Across
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Pontiac Firebird, for one : MUSCLECAR
10
Melodramatic : SOAPY
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Risked : ONTHELINE
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Connected to a bar : AXLED
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They may come with bells and whistles : TRAINSETS
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Pounds : PELTS
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Diversion : TOY
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Neared : ZEROEDINON
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Bound : LOPE
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Put in a stake : ANTED
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Rage : FAD
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Chopin title : ETUDES
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Antitrust suit defendant of the 70's : ITT
31
Shells, etc. : AMMO
32
Pink-legged bird : STILT
33
Word of encouragement : OLE
34
Valuable Scrabble holdings : ZEES
35
Concrete section : SLAB
37
Return from the hills : ECHO
39
Hypothetical words : IFSO
42
Scale syllables : MIS
44
Ark contents : TORAH
47
"Be My Love" lyricist : CAHN
48
Cut : MOW
49
Ends : OMEGAS
51
Big time : ERA
52
They're found in un jardin zoologique : BETES
54
Hoped-for reply in "Spanish Eyes" : SISI
55
Unwanted visitor : GRIMREAPER
59
Youngest world chess champion before Kasparov : TAL
60
"___ it!" (exhortation) : HOPTO
61
Niagara Reservation was the first one in 1885 : STATEPARK
63
Early computer : ENIAC
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It's rarely won : TICTACTOE
65
Probes : FEELS
66
Pittsburgh, e.g. : STEELTOWN
Down
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Spot : MOTTLE
2
Pulls out entirely, in a way : UNROOTS
3
Go nowhere : STAYPUT
4
Campus letter : CHI
5
Kay of "Fast-Walking" : LENZ
6
In addition : ELSE
7
Old Olds : CIERA
8
Shakespearean merchant : ANTONIO
9
Move : RESETTLE
10
Flavorful : SAPID
11
What Hercules captured from Geryon : OXEN
12
#1 hit for Louis Armstrong, 1932 : ALLOFME
13
Sugar, e.g. : PETNAME
14
Montana nos. : YDS
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Big scale manufacturer : DETECTO
23
___ effect (1883 physics discovery) : EDISON
26
Bob and others : DOS
28
Addition : ELL
29
Pause cause : STAMMER
31
Ponta Delgada's locale : AZORES
36
Experiments on organisms : BIOTESTS
38
Same: Prefix : HOM
39
Put away : ICE
40
Remote : FARGONE
41
Sly one : SHARPIE
43
Worry : SWEATIT
45
Like the last movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" : AGITATO
46
Argues : HASAROW
50
Smooth : SILKEN
52
Class pres. and others : BMOCS
53
Reserved seat : SPACE
56
Med. land : ITAL
57
Suffix with quart : ETTE
58
"Get ___!" : REAL
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Mag magnate : HEF
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Poll no. : PCT

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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