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New York Times, Friday, December 7, 2001

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
Like earthlings, sometimes, in sci-fi
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331.591,23672%
Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 29 Missing: {QY} This is puzzle # 53 for Mr. DiPietro. Friday freshness: 52%
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© 2001, The New York Times12/7/1 ( No. 19,022 )
Across
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Start angrily : REARUP
7
Like earthlings, sometimes, in sci-fi : ABDUCTED
15
Run out : EXPIRE
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Actor Freddie's actor son : PRINZEJR
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Puts in play : SERVES
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Continental courses? : AIRLANES
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Dog in a panel : ODIE
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None of that? : THIS
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"It's ___ against time" : ARACE
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Hundred Acre Wood denizen : ROO
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It's $15, in Monopoly : POORTAX
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A.C. letters : BTU
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Kind of engine : TURBO
29
Vault opener? : POLE
30
Québec's ___ de la Madeleine : ILES
31
Fruit in a gallery, maybe : STILLLIFES
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Puts together : WEDS
34
Short person's slip? : IOU
35
It may be in a bed : ORE
37
Quick trip : SPIN
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Break : RESTPERIOD
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Fall precipitately, in slang : TANK
48
Olympic Stadium athlete : EXPO
49
Tasty tubes : PENNE
50
Flight stat. : ALT
51
Entrance requirements, perhaps : IDCARDS
53
Get away without delay : LAM
54
Rosary : BEADS
56
War of 1812 locale : ERIE
57
Copter's forerunner : GIRO
58
Popular money-raising event : BAKESALE
60
Bit of wit : BONMOT
62
Checkout time, often : ELEVENAM
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In want of the wherewithal : UNABLE
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Abandoned : DESOLATE
65
Aged : GOTOLD
Down
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In places : RESORTS
2
Struck : EXEDOUT
3
Nonanalytic : APRIORI
4
Split : RIVE
5
North Yorkshire river : URE
6
49-Across topper, maybe : PESTO
7
Two : APAIROF
8
Stand up : BRISTLE
9
Film developer?: Abbr. : DIR
10
Take it easy, slangily : UNLAX
11
Powerful person : CZAR
12
Like good arguments : TENABLE
13
Thrown out : EJECTED
14
"My Many Colored Days" author : DRSEUSS
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Shoshonean language : HOPI
24
Pullover : POLO
25
His tales often featured animals : AESOP
28
Flip one's lid? : BLINK
30
"If ___ you ..." : IWERE
32
Tempted : LURED
36
Workout set : REPS
37
Ran through : STABBED
38
Alternative to lager : PALEALE
39
Fluid entry points : INTAKES
41
Be proficient in : EXCELAT
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"Puh-leeze!" : SPAREME
43
Famous Amos : TORI
44
Neither here nor there : INLIMBO
45
Doing great : ONAROLL
46
Took a stripe from, say : DEMOTED
51
N.B.A. coach Dan : ISSEL
52
Make less likely to crash? : DEBUG
55
"Whip It" group : DEVO
57
Dipterous one : GNAT
59
Got ___ (did great) : ANA
61
"Wedding Album" performer, 1969 : ONO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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