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New York Times, Saturday, July 7, 2001

Author:
Robert H. Wolfe
Editor:
Will Shortz
3-Down : "Ready, ___!"
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Robert H. Wolfe

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 37 Missing: {BJQVWX} Spans: 4, (2 double stacks) This is puzzle # 47 for Mr. Wolfe. Saturday freshness: 7%
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© 2001, The New York Times7/7/1 ( No. 18,869 )
Across
1
With 5-Across, blow a fuse : LOSE
5
See 1-Across : ONESTEMPER
15
Instant, or a 1988 Whitney Houston hit : ONEMOMENTINTIME
17
Don't hold back : LETITALLHANGOUT
18
___-American : ANGLO
19
Papuan port in W.W. II fighting : LAE
20
Dark times, to poets : EENS
21
John ___ : DOE
22
Category : CLASS
24
Letter in the Daily Mirror : ZED
27
Spain joined it in 1986: Abbr. : EEC
28
Flattens : KOS
31
One-act Strauss opera : SALOME
34
Waste : SNUFFOUT
37
They're used to stress : ITALICS
39
Chinese dish : STIRFRY
40
Rap productions? : RATATATS
42
Children's author Greenfield : ELOISE
43
Self-employed people? : EDS
44
Play conclusion? : DOH
45
Cartoon dog : REN
46
Extended opera solo : SCENA
48
With 46-Down, famous provider of hospitality : THE
51
Jesus on the field : ALOU
53
Ref. work : ENC
55
Horatian work : EPODE
57
Unalaska and others : ALEUTIANISLANDS
60
Ticking somebody off : GETTINGONESGOAT
61
Uncommitted : ONTHEFENCE
62
Manx tongue : ERSE
Down
1
Anouk Aimée title role : LOLA
2
With no break : ONEND
3
"Ready, ___!" : SETGO
4
"The Experimental Novel" novelist : EMILEZOLA
5
Medical suffix : OMA
6
Paramour of England's Charles II : NELL
7
Ties up : ENLACES
8
It's active in Washington : STHELENS
9
Córdoba kinswoman : TIA
10
Politically incorrect endings : ENNES
11
Homeowners take them out: Abbr. : MTGES
12
Nuclear binder : PION
13
Outback residents : EMUS
14
Abbr. after a name : RET
16
They lived along the Missouri : OTO
23
Relatively sharp : ACUTER
25
Issue : EMIT
26
Time piece? : DECADE
28
Boutros's successor : KOFI
29
Sharer's word : OURS
30
Ophthalmology case : STYE
31
Lord, old-style : SIRE
32
Not much : ATAD
33
Some muscles, informally : LATS
35
It may be used on a nail : FILE
36
Very important : FRONTPAGE
38
Early time : STONEAGE
41
Airport near Limerick : SHANNON
46
See 48-Across : SOUTH
47
Doll : CUTIE
49
You may be bound by it : HONOR
50
Norse epics : EDDAS
51
Chrysler Building architect William Van ___ : ALEN
52
Baryshnikov, by birth : LETT
54
George W. Bush, now: Abbr. : CINC
55
Loop loopers : ELS
56
90° from norte : ESTE
57
Back : AGO
58
Gershwin's "Concerto ___" : INF
59
Religious office : SEE

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

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