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New York Times, Friday, January 13, 2006

Author:
Eric Berlin
Editor:
Will Shortz
Harmless reptile with a dangerous-sounding name
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
436/23/200211/29/20203
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1413521521
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
361.5223969%
Eric Berlin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 28 Missing: {JQWXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 22 for Mr. Berlin. Friday freshness: 92%
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© 2006, The New York Times1/13/6 ( No. 20,520 )
Across
1
See : DATE
5
Flexible prefix : AMBI
9
Cries for attention : AHEMS
14
Summoning : EVOCATION
16
With 13-Down, places for shooting stars : MOVIE
17
Bit : FELLFORIT
18
Take ___ (break) : AREST
19
They have African cousins : INDIANELEPHANTS
21
An eagle is on its flag : EGYPT
22
Pattern of scanning lines on a TV : RASTER
23
They can be choppy : SEAS
24
Bill for fine clothing? : BLASS
27
Argonaut who slew Castor : IDAS
29
"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" co-star : ELLIOTTGOULD
32
Hard-rock center : ASA
35
One in a shelter, maybe : BAGLADY
36
___ particle : PSI
37
Is in charge : CALLSTHETUNE
40
Beautiful people of literature : ELOI
41
"___ in the Park" (Rodgers and Hart song) : ATREE
42
He wrote a hit Broadway musical with Weill : NASH
46
Parts of some joints : TENONS
48
___ ready : ATTHE
49
Rank last attained in 1950 : FIVESTARGENERAL
53
Imminent, old-style : ANEAR
54
Harmless reptile with a dangerous-sounding name : BULLSNAKE
55
"Somebody's Knockin'" singer ___ Gibbs : TERRI
56
Wannabe's efforts : EMULATION
57
Easy ___ : ASABC
58
Auto performance factor, informally : RPMS
59
Start of Massachusetts' motto : ENSE
Down
1
Beards : DEFIES
2
Repay, in a way : AVENGE
3
"See?!" : TOLDYA
4
Dwarf : ECLIPSE
5
Piles : ATON
6
Entangle : MIRE
7
Not merely warm : BOIL
8
Like some commerce : INTERSTATE
9
Far Eastern female servants : AMAHS
10
"Good night, sweet prince" speaker : HORATIO
11
Now level : EVENEDUP
12
Cold northerly winds of southern France : MISTRALS
13
See 16-Across : SETS
15
___ lot (very little) : AFAT
20
Late : PASTDUE
24
Sans subtlety : BLATANT
25
Jedi protector : LIGHTSABER
26
Many a surfer : AOLER
28
Cold war abbr. : SDI
30
Abbr. in a birth announcement : LBS
31
Med. specialty : GYN
32
Whiz : ACE
33
Premium product : SALTINES
34
Mediterranean succulent : ALOEVERA
38
Early form of Greek : LINEARB
39
Understanding, of sorts : ENTENTE
43
Transportation in a 1941 hit song : ATRAIN
44
Military toppers : SHAKOS
45
Amazon warrior killed by Achilles : HELENE
47
One of Hamlet's courtiers : OSRIC
48
Novelist Tina McElroy ___ : ANSA
49
___ morgana (mirage) : FATA
50
Behind : RUMP
51
Down : GLUM
52
Some bent pipes : ELLS

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

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