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New York Times, Wednesday, August 29, 2001

Author:
James Rogers
Editor:
Will Shortz
44-Across : Cracked
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James Rogers

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {KQ} Spans: 3 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Rogers. Wednesday freshness: 66%
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© 2001, The New York Times8/29/1 ( No. 18,922 )
Across
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Harem accessory : FAN
4
Word with cake or runner : RUM
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Singer Scaggs : BOZ
10
15 ___ (tennis score) : ALL
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Hubbub : ADO
14
Occasional puzzle solver's action : ERASURE
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20-20, e.g. : TIE
17
Former U.S. Open champ Martina's feeling about an icon? : NOTHINGISSACRED
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Strain locus : GROIN
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Praising : EXTOLLING
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Mars, to Uranus : ARES
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Some O.C.S. grads : LTS
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Recessed area : APSE
25
Hubbub : STIR
26
Mid 6th-century date : DLI
27
Big inits. in Detroit : UAW
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Part of la familia : TIO
30
"Yes, ___" : MAAM
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Opera's La ___ : SCALA
34
Former U.S. Open champ Chris's answer to "Who'll be tops this year?" : YOUCANNEVERTELL
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"No Strings Attached" band : NSYNC
39
Are, eventually : WERE
40
"A pox on you!" : FIE
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Brooding author : POE
42
Kind of agent : IRS
43
"Keep it" : STET
44
Cracked : AJAR
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One or more : ANY
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Erelong : SOON
49
Movement from Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony : MINUETINC
52
"The Sopranos" matriarch : LIVIA
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Former U.S. Open champ Monica's cry upon seeing wooden rackets in her locker? : THESEAREUSELESS
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Kind of radio : HAM
57
Leave 50%, maybe : OVERTIP
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Itinerary abbr. : RTE
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Conductor de Waart : EDO
60
El ___ (Heston role) : CID
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Extreme suffix : EST
62
Snake's sound : SSS
Down
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Dracula feature : FANG
2
Worship : ADORATION
3
Classic Grant/ Bergman film : NOTORIOUS
4
They hold your horses : REINS
5
Coffee holder : URN
6
1521 visitor to Guam : MAGELLAN
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Wrecks : BUSTS
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Roughly : ORSO
9
Passion : ZEAL
10
Hoisted, nautically : ATRIP
11
Legal claims : LIENS
12
Projection : LEDGE
15
Unique claim of the U.S. Open player whose name is hidden in 34-Across : SIXTIMEWINNER
18
Yesterday, to Yves : HIER
19
Paw : CLAWAT
25
Mud hole : STY
26
Charleston, e.g. : DANCE
27
Junkies : USERS
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A lot of plot : ACRE
30
Hand: Sp. : MANO
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Hash ingredients : LEFTOVERS
33
Psychiatrists of old : ALIENISTS
35
Island nation : CYPRUS
36
"You're so clever" : VERYCUTE
37
Tennis call : LET
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Sully : SOIL
44
"I ___ Walrus" : AMTHE
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Zealot's crusade : JIHAD
46
Meter starter : ANEMO
47
Shown : AIRED
48
Nodded : SLEPT
50
Fair-hiring watchdog: Abbr. : EEOC
51
Rikki-Tikki-___ : TAVI
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"___ Death" ("Peer Gynt Suite" piece) : ASES
55
Serena, to Venus : SIS

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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