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New York Times, Thursday, March 28, 2002

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
49-Across : Wipeouts
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 152 for Mr. Nosowsky. Thursday freshness: 16%
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© 2002, The New York Times3/28/2 ( No. 19,133 )
Across
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Fighting hard : ATWAR
6
Round at the pound : YAPS
10
Meridian : ACME
14
Its capital is St.-Étienne : LOIRE
15
"Up and ___!" : ATEM
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Dharma's partner : GREG
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Wet midair weather? : INFLIGHTRAINING
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Get loaded : TIEONEON
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Mounts : STEEDS
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Roxy Music co-founder : ENO
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Game with pins : CHESS
24
Say yes (to) : ACCEDE
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Ground bait for fish : CHUM
29
Good times : UPS
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Ice-T song for travelers? : TOURISTRAP
34
Chew on celery, e.g. : GNAW
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Its loose ends are tied : APRON
36
One with a nest egg : HEN
37
Photography lens : MACRO
38
Speeds up : REVS
39
Captain Bligh after the mutiny? : BOATRAILER
41
Sussex suffix : ISE
42
Literary site? : DESK
43
Astronaut Collins : EILEEN
44
Person in front of a train : BRIDE
46
Prince Valiant's son : ARN
47
Mrs. Robinson's daughter, in "The Graduate" : ELAINE
49
Wipeouts : ERASURES
54
Biblical matriarch requiring no proof? : SELFEVIDENTRUTH
56
One way to stand : TALL
57
Cry after "Yippee!" : IWON
58
"... who lived in ___" : ASHOE
59
Church section : APSE
60
___ Linda, Calif. : LOMA
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Well-knit tales : YARNS
Down
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Came to earth : ALIT
2
"Beloved" author Morrison : TONI
3
44-Across, e.g. : WIFE
4
"___ & Janis" (comic) : ARLO
5
Curbed : REINEDIN
6
Popular Internet portal : YAHOO
7
Envelope abbr. : ATTN
8
Via : PER
9
Rear-ender, maybe : SMASHUP
10
De Mille of dance : AGNES
11
Gives up : CRIESUNCLE
12
Knit, maybe : MEND
13
Baker's dozen? : EGGS
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They make you you : GENES
19
Thingamabob : ITEM
23
Sound from a coven : CHANT
24
Video game name : ATARI
25
Manages : COPES
26
Surprises : CURVEBALLS
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Power of love : EROS
28
Result of an oil shortage? : CREAK
30
European capital in song : PAREE
31
Like much testimony : SWORN
33
1965 film "___ Calloways" : THOSE
34
Author Sheehy : GAIL
37
Chief support : MAINSTAY
39
Plague : BEDEVIL
40
Tried to keep one's seat : RERAN
42
Feast (on) : DINE
45
M-1, for one : RIFLE
46
Place for a game : ARENA
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"Cómo ___?" : ESTA
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Ballet practice : LEAP
49
Neighbor of ancient Palestine : EDOM
50
___ Minor : URSA
51
European coal area : RUHR
52
Berkshire town : ETON
53
Tom Jones's "___ a Lady" : SHES
55
W.W. II site, briefly : IWO

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4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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