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New York Times, Saturday, March 24, 2001

Author:
Mark Diehl
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Across : Opera character with a dream
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31.573887%
Mark Diehl

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 27 Missing: {FJKQXZ} This is puzzle # 30 for Mr. Diehl. Saturday freshness: 28%
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© 2001, The New York Times3/24/1 ( No. 18,764 )
Across
1
Nursery rhyme starter : RUBADUBDUB
11
Band over a bathing suit, maybe : SASH
15
Rambo : ONEMANARMY
16
Start of some cloud names : ALTO
17
Gen. Hooker fought in it : USCIVILWAR
18
Slight remark : PEEP
19
Not a veteran : NEO
20
"Can ___?" : ITBE
21
Strauss opera : DAPHNE
23
Kiri Te Kanawa and others : DAMES
25
Traditional : OLDSCHOOL
27
Have fun on a white bed? : SLED
28
"Quién ___?" : SABE
29
It has two doors : COUPE
30
Al Capp creation : DAISYMAE
33
Northern flier : SAS
34
"___ never believe it!" : THEYLL
37
Track records : SPEEDS
39
Part of ASCAP: Abbr. : SOC
40
Pasture item : COWPATTY
44
Gulf rival : AMOCO
46
Opera character with a dream : ELSA
47
Gym set : REPS
51
Modernizes, maybe : RENOVATES
53
Country or folk : GENRE
54
"Cymbeline" heroine : IMOGEN
55
Campaign worker : AIDE
57
Go out : DIE
58
Somebody : NAME
59
"Eeew!" : DISGUSTING
62
Situation favoring the server : ADIN
63
It may be taken before swinging : OPENSTANCE
64
Zealots, for one : SECT
65
Al Capone portrayer of 1959 : RODSTEIGER
Down
1
They're made in hospitals : ROUNDS
2
Free, in a way : UNSEAL
3
Look good on : BECOME
4
Cannes confidant : AMI
5
17-Across figure : DAVIS
6
Mile, e.g. : UNIT
7
Panamanian mintage : BALBOAS
8
"Young" TV physician : DRWELBY
9
Mia's portrayer in "Pulp Fiction" : UMA
10
1960's folk rockers, with "The" : BYRDS
11
Plato's "tenth Muse" : SAPPHO
12
No place for a draft dodger? : ALEHOUSE
13
It's useful for dictators : STENOPAD
14
Lost : HOPELESS
22
Swallow : ACCEPT
24
Vortex : EDDY
26
F.D.R., e.g. : DEM
28
One may be raised on a farm : SILO
31
Garden bower, e.g. : ALCOVE
32
Dog star : ASTA
34
Catherine and others : TSARINAS
35
Like some meals : HOMEMADE
36
Like some forecasts : ECONOMIC
38
Australia's largest lake : EYRE
41
In need of a change, perhaps : WET
42
Like punch? : PLEASED
43
Appoints : ASSIGNS
45
Forceful : COGENT
48
Bad thing to give away : ENDING
49
King's issue : PRINCE
50
"Turn! Turn! Turn!" songwriter : SEEGER
52
Slashed words? : ANDOR
53
Chanson de ___ : GESTE
56
Sneeze inducer : DUST
60
Dotcom's dream, maybe : IPO
61
Red ___ (sushi fish) : TAI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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