I once read Frank Longo's notes — somewhere — describing how he seeded his 52-word masterpiece (1/21/2005) with the entry DINETTE SETS ... because S, E and T offer much flexibility as ending letters. So, when STRESS TESTS became a mainstream concept at the height of the Great Recession, the stage was set for me to attempt a similar feat.
By the way, the entry ESTES randomly appeared at 1-Across, so I clued it as "Harvey of crossword constructing fame" knowing full well that Will would get a chuckle and change it. (But also knowing that if KROZEL ever randomly appeared in one of Harvey's puzzle's, he'd return the favor! ... ;-) )
This puzzle tied the NYT record for the lowest word count. Mr. Krozel then broke that record in 2013.
1 E | 2 S | 3 T | 4 E | 5 S | 6 M | 7 S | 8 D | 9 O | 10 S |
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11 M | E | A | G | E | 12 R | 13 P | O | M | E | L | O |
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14 B | R | O | O | D | E | 15 R | 16 C | A | L | I | B | E | R |
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17 A | G | I | T | A | T | O | 18 O | V | E | R | E | A | T |
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19 Y | E | S | I | T | I | S | 20 M | A | S | K | E | R | S |
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21 I | T | S | E | L | E | 22 M | E | N | T | A | R | Y | ||
23 S | T | R | E | S | S | T | E | S | T | S | ||||
24 A | T | O | ||||||||||||
25 L | 26 I | 27 T | 28 E | R | A | T | 29 U | 30 R | 31 E | 32 S | ||||
33 F | U | T | U | R | E | R | E | S | U | L | T | 34 S | ||
35 T | I | N | S | T | A | R | 36 R | U | N | L | A | P | 37 S |
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38 R | E | C | H | O | S | E | 39 M | A | N | A | T | E | E |
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40 U | S | H | E | R | E | D | 41 S | L | I | M | I | N | G |
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42 S | T | E | R | E | S | 43 S | E | A | N | C | E |
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44 T | A | S | E | D | 45 R | E | G | E | R |
Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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