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New York Times, Saturday, April 7, 2001

Author:
Trip Payne
Editor:
Will Shortz
Voice of the car in "My Mother, the Car"
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464/10/19948/3/20211
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421.5333860%
Trip Payne

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 30 Missing: {FJQXZ} This is puzzle # 15 for Mr. Payne. Saturday freshness: 42%
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© 2001, The New York Times4/7/1 ( No. 18,778 )
Across
1
Country singer Ketchum : HAL
4
Home of the Tate Gallery : WESTMINSTER
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What gives a pose poise? : ANI
16
Musical work with a duel : ILTROVATORE
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Darling of the baseball world : RON
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Frank : PLAINSPOKEN
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Trekkers : PIONEERS
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Geom. shape : RECT
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Appealing, perhaps : INCOURT
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Variety show showing : TALENTS
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Like a clear-cut area : STUMPY
27
The Sneetches' creator : DRSEUSS
28
Leader of France : TETE
29
Bit of fancy footwork : TOETAP
30
60's grp. : SDS
31
Stewart's replacement on the bench : OCONNOR
33
Year Dacia was captured by Trajan : CVI
36
Put on : STAGED
37
"The Good Earth" heroine : OLAN
38
Kip spender : LAOTIAN
40
Comes to the point? : TAPERS
42
Waltzlike dances : BOSTONS
43
Term of endearment : CARAMIA
44
Blast, for instance : OATH
45
Like Jupiter's four largest moons : GALILEAN
46
Maximizes efficiency : STREAMLINES
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Point toward the top : NNE
51
PBS personality : CHARLIEROSE
52
O.R. amounts : CCS
53
Steely Dan hit, 1980 : HEYNINETEEN
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"But then again ..." : YET
Down
1
Angels, in many images : HARPISTS
2
Chosen : ANOINTED
3
Some Matisse creations : LINOCUTS
4
Sponge : WIPEUP
5
Queen's name : ELLERY
6
Move forward, or jump back : START
7
Speaker from Cleveland : TRIS
8
When "The Lucy Show" aired: Abbr. : MON
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Some drippers, for short : IVS
10
Day break : NAP
11
Lay away : STOREUP
12
Underground purchases : TOKENS
13
Puts up : ERECTS
14
Lets out : RENTS
20
Seward Peninsula city : NOME
23
Everybody's doing it : TREND
24
In the matter of : ASTO
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"Laughable Lyrics" writer : LEAR
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"Funny Face" director Stanley : DONEN
29
Worn sheets : TOGAS
31
Chemistry Nobelist Hahn : OTTO
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Noted exile : CAIN
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Mercy : CLEMENCY
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Case for a planning board : VARIANCE
35
Most touched : INSANEST
36
Voice of the car in "My Mother, the Car" : SOTHERN
37
Virgin Valley valuable : OPAL
38
Execrate : LOATHE
39
Lead ___ : ASTRAY
40
"Unto the Sons" author : TALESE
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Up and about : ARISEN
42
"Mocking of Christ" painter : BOSCH
43
Woodskin : CANOE
45
Hemmed in : GIRT
47
1996 Olympic torch lighter : ALI
48
60 ticks: Abbr. : MIN
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Bruce or Brenda : LEE

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

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