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New York Times, Saturday, June 24, 2000

Author:
Nancy Joline
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : Better
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1093/27/19862/24/20081
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4455891028
RebusCircleScrabblePGramPre‑WSFresh
921.4716161%
Nancy Nicholson Joline

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 31 Missing: {JQVZ} This is puzzle # 94 for Ms. Joline. Saturday freshness: 38%
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© 2000, The New York Times6/24/0 ( No. 18,491 )
Across
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Permits passage, perhaps : STEPSASIDE
11
Time of a famous dispatch : IDES
15
Bills : PAPERMONEY
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Custom officer's cry : NEXT
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Better : AMELIORATE
18
Stoic philosopher : CATO
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Basket alternative : CART
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Band with the album "Monster" : REM
21
Singer Artis Ivey, familiarly : COOLIO
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Physics class topic : ERG
24
Tape, say : RECORDING
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Photocopied : RANOFF
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It may follow one's convictions : SENTENCE
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Act starter : SCENEI
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Not get used : SIT
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Fast cars : GTS
34
"Mystery Date" actress ___ Polo : TERI
36
Innocent : LAMB
39
Prefix with centenary : TER
42
1980's program: Abbr. : SDI
44
Early Bird was the first one : COMSAT
48
Rating range : ONETOTEN
51
Long-tailed finch : TOWHEE
52
Desolation : STARKNESS
54
"Catch-22" pilot : ORR
55
Mezzo Berganza : TERESA
56
Hikes : UPS
58
Brothers : FRAS
59
Purlieu : AREA
60
It has strings attached : MARIONETTE
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Force : DINT
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There's no end to them : ETERNITIES
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"Show Boat" cap'n : ANDY
66
Casting aid : SCREENTEST
Down
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Thumbs strike them : SPACERS
2
Fort Lauderdale suburb : TAMARAC
3
Table centerpiece : EPERGNE
4
Barrage : PELT
5
Indian name starter : SRI
6
Picasso's love : AMOR
7
More likely to erupt : SORER
8
Chaotic : INAMESS
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P.D. figure : DET
10
Speaker's asset : EYECONTACT
11
Needing to be cracked? : INCODE
12
Casino activity : DEALING
13
Like ground sloths : EXTINCT
14
Old comics : STOOGES
22
Bit for the silent butler : ORT
25
Overlay with wood or plaster : CEIL
27
Peter Jennings's birthplace: Abbr. : ONT
28
Toll : FEE
29
Peter, Paul and Mary : FIRSTNAMES
35
Starting point for Pasteur : IDEE
37
Barn sound : MOO
38
Upscale wheels : BMW
39
Fiesta fare : TOSTADA
40
Join, redundantly : ENTERIN
41
Hit, in a way : REAREND
43
John Hancock, e.g. : INSURER
45
Shrimp : SHORTIE
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Does an aquarium job : AERATES
47
Least long : TERSEST
49
Compact : TREATY
50
Accepts : OKS
53
Place for a finial : SPIRE
57
Sound amount : SONE
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Boba ___ of "Star Wars" : FETT
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Flight coordinators: Abbr. : ATC
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Miller's lover in "Henry & June" : NIN

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

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