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New York Times, Friday, September 30, 2005

Author:
Nancy Kavanaugh
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Across : Like some excuses
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Nancy Kavanaugh

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 22 for Ms. Kavanaugh. Friday freshness: 52%
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© 2005, The New York Times9/30/5 ( No. 20,415 )
Across
1
Risky person to neck with : DRACULA
8
Place for an embedded journalist : WARZONE
15
Entices : ROPESIN
16
The Angelic Doctor : AQUINAS
17
Shamed : ABASHED
18
Manuscript headings : RUBRICS
19
Like some dresses and drinks : BELTED
20
___ dare : ONA
21
Pith : CORE
22
New N.F.L. team of 1950 : BROWNS
24
Scale composition : TONES
25
Prefix with cab : PEDI
28
Salmon ___ : ROE
29
Script writer : PEN
30
Pinwheel turner : STREAMOFAIR
33
Shogun's capital : EDO
36
Reputation ruiner : SCANDALOUSRUMOR
38
Friend's possessive : THY
39
Lack of starch : INFORMALITY
40
Dram : JOT
41
Eastern way : TAO
42
Attraction at Chicago's Field Museum : TREX
43
Advice for the easily distracted : FOCUS
46
Like some excuses : FEEBLE
48
It's known for its bell ringers : AVON
49
Common bar order, briefly : BUD
50
More supernatural : EERIER
54
Like veal calves : MILKFED
56
Roald Dahl title character : MATILDA
57
Broke in, e.g. : ENTERED
58
Parrotlike behavior : ECHOING
59
Seer's "revelation" : DESTINY
60
Considering that : WHEREAS
Down
1
Cheerless : DRAB
2
Cover-up : ROBE
3
"C'mon, be ___" : APAL
4
"That's fine," in France : CESTBIEN
5
Work with a flashlight : USHER
6
Be quiescent : LIEDORMANT
7
"Do go on ..." : AND
8
Tips off : WARNS
9
Liquid, to a pharmacist : AQUA
10
Polish : RUB
11
Matura diamond, actually : ZIRCON
12
Source of some tears : ONION
13
Certain shell liner : NACRE
14
Leaders of San Salvador : ESSES
20
Like many ice-skating spins : ONEFOOTED
23
"Orlando" novelist : WOOLF
24
Land : TERRA
25
Head-turner : PSST
26
Impress clearly : ETCH
27
Heavy hauler : DRAY
29
Town south of San Luis Obispo : PISMOBEACH
31
Parting word : ADIOS
32
Emanations, old-style : AURAE
33
Kaffiyehed commander : EMIR
34
Spoil, with "on" : DOTE
35
African grazer : ORYX
37
Beyond what is openly said : ULTERIOR
40
Outing : JUNKET
43
Big-name : FAMED
44
Like Little Bo-Peep's charges : OVINE
45
Would-be studs : COLTS
46
Stuffy sort, in slang : FUDDY
47
River in Hades : LETHE
49
Lived : BEEN
51
"Would ___?" : ILIE
52
Best seen on-screen : EDNA
53
No fancy threads : RAGS
55
It may be casual: Abbr. : FRI
56
Small gull : MEW

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

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