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New York Times, Friday, January 7, 2005

Author:
Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke
Editor:
Will Shortz
26-Across : Lapsed
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
228/26/200410/23/202314
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
13632331
ScrabblePGramFresh
1.59246%
Stella Zawistowski
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
198/26/200410/19/201518
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2264320
ScrabblePGramFresh
1.61244%
Bruce Venzke

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 30 Missing: {FHJQ} This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Zawistowski. This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Venzke. Friday freshness: 82%
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© 2005, The New York Times1/7/5 ( No. 20,149 )
Across
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Opposite of 58-Across : NEVERMORE
10
Evidence of trauma : SCARS
15
Took off without a sound : STOLEAWAY
16
Mel Tormé's "___ Home Baby" : COMIN
17
"Doesn't that beat all?!" : WELLILLBE
18
Betel palm : ARECA
19
Camp sight : SLEEPINGBAG
21
Matching tops, maybe : TWINSET
25
Creeks, e.g. : INDIANS
26
Lapsed : RANOUT
27
Sitcom about a Texas soccer mom : REBA
28
Condition : INURE
29
Call up : RECOLLECT
34
Take ___ view of : ADIM
35
Cartier rival : ROLEX
36
Crimson rivals : ELIS
37
Information holders : DATABASES
39
Home of the Knights Hospitalers : MALTA
40
Wasn't straight : LIED
41
More lean and muscular : WIRIER
42
It bites : SARCASM
46
Mean dude's quality : BADNESS
47
Procrastinator's aid : SNOOZEALARM
49
Philadelphia's first black mayor, 1984-92 : GOODE
50
What a mail order merchant wants : RESPONSES
55
Guitarist's gizmo : TUNER
56
Like wire transfers : INTERBANK
57
Station postings, briefly : SKEDS
58
Opposite of 1-Across : ETERNALLY
Down
1
Where Sydney is: Abbr. : NSW
2
Opposite of hiver : ETE
3
Console abbr. : VOL
4
Old cloth measure : ELL
5
It's newly available, but not new : REISSUE
6
Knocker : MALLET
7
Big-eyed baby : OWLET
8
"Streamers" playwright : RABE
9
Seeing things : EYEPIECES
10
What a gate may be attached to? : SCANDAL
11
Literally, "dwarf dog" : CORGI
12
Simple life? : AMEBA
13
San Juan native, slangily : RICAN
14
Annoying things to hit : SNAGS
20
Work site : INBOX
21
It includes a third and a fifth : TRIAD
22
Rockabilly queen Jackson : WANDA
23
Certain Greenlander : INUIT
24
Bellini's title priestess : NORMA
27
Commanded anew : RELED
29
"The Dick Van Dyke Show" actress : ROSEMARIE
30
Soak up : LEARN
31
Matriarch of an 80's prime-time soap : ELLIE
32
Subpoenas, say : CITES
33
Reds' old foes : TSARS
35
Collect, as funds : RAISE
38
Some Chevys : BLAZERS
39
A few hours after dawn, in verse : MIDMORN
41
Water, vis-à-vis wood : WARPER
42
Some N.C.O.'s : SSGTS
43
Actress Aimée : ANOUK
44
ABC's Arledge : ROONE
45
Requiring cracking, perhaps : CODED
46
Wallop : BASTE
48
Time to give up? : LENT
51
Warriors' grp. : NBA
52
"An all 'round good fellow," in song : SAL
53
In the U.S.M.C., e.g. : ENL
54
Shade of blue : SKY

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

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