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New York Times, Friday, February 4, 2000

Author:
Dana Motley
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Across : Upbraid
TotalDebutLatest
311/30/19978/16/2013
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20001721
ScrabbleFresh
1.5366%
Dana Motley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {GVXZ} This is puzzle # 5 for Ms. Motley. Friday freshness: 33%
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© 2000, The New York Times2/4/0 ( No. 18,350 )
Across
1
Diamond holder : SAFE
5
Job for an ob/gyn : AMNIO
10
Clash : TIFF
14
Got off the bus : ALIT
15
Hallelujah : PAEAN
16
Kind of history : ORAL
17
G-man : NARC
18
Good source of potassium : PRUNEJUICE
20
Plus fours : KNEEPANTS
22
Cause of a wake-up : APNEA
23
Not so tasty : STALER
24
Has no doubt whatever : SWEARS
25
Ministers (to) : CATERS
27
Desert home : ADOBE
29
Now, in Juárez : AHORA
30
Cloudiness : BLEAR
31
Transportation inits. since 1930 : TWA
34
Wyoming river : LARAMIE
36
Early work? : PREQUEL
38
Tech stock : IBM
39
Razzle-dazzle : ECLAT
41
Like one of the senses : AURAL
42
Upbraid : SCOLD
43
Facts : SKINNY
44
Show for which Bob Fosse won a 1978 Tony : DANCIN
47
Servings at a 44-Down : JULEPS
49
Artist-illustrator Vedder : ELIHU
50
Celeb : SUPERSTAR
53
Payback : RECOMPENSE
55
Turner or Sinatra : TINA
56
Clip-fed machine gun : BREN
57
Aspect : FACET
58
Carolina college : ELON
59
Knight time : YORE
60
___ Sark : CUTTY
61
Rupture : REND
Down
1
Collapsed : SANK
2
Josephine Tey investigator ___ Grant : ALAN
3
Hullabaloo : FIRESTORM
4
Yadda yadda yadda : ETCETERA
5
Horrifies : APPALS
6
Area in W.W. I news : MARNE
7
A car may be in it : NEUTRAL
8
Writer Buruma and others : IANS
9
Last word heard on New Year's Eve : ONE
10
Spot remover? : TOUPEE
11
Sister of Boris Godunov : IRINA
12
Stunning blow : FACER
13
Tiny jumpers : FLEAS
19
Zbigniew Brzezinski, e.g. : JAWBREAKER
21
It's something in the water : PARAMECIUM
24
Take off : SOAR
25
Colombian city : CALI
26
Jezebel's husband : AHAB
28
Corp. section : DEPT
30
Round sound : BELL
31
Entrance sight, maybe : TURNSTILE
32
Break off : WEAN
33
One who takes sides : ALLY
35
Many a celebrity : ICON
37
Wit : QUIPSTER
40
Add-on : ADJUNCT
42
"Die ___ Müllerin" (Schubert work) : SCHONE
43
Hazardous, travelwise : SLEETY
44
You can bet on it : DERBY
45
Olds make : ALERO
46
More upscale : NICER
48
Election news : UPSET
50
Linebacker Junior : SEAU
51
Any minute : ANON
52
"The Fountainhead" author : RAND
54
One-striper, for short : PFC

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

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