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New York Times, Wednesday, January 15, 2003

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
18-Across : Irish symbol
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1938/7/199612/22/202321
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QVWXYZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 65 for Mr. Quigley. Wednesday freshness: 7%
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© 2003, The New York Times1/15/3 ( No. 19,426 )
Across
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Not telling : MUM
4
Drink before bed, maybe : DECAF
9
Belt clip-on : PAGER
14
Part of a World Cup chant : OLE
15
Sister of Terpsichore : ERATO
16
Squirreled-away item : ACORN
17
Merkel of old movies : UNA
18
Irish symbol : CELTICCROSS
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Time off, briefly : RANDR
22
Fuller than full : SATED
23
Bottom line : NETRESULTS
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Something to draw from : TAP
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___ fille (French girl) : JEUNE
31
Society Islands island : TAHITI
34
Item in a thimblerig game : PEA
37
Fixes, in a way : RIGS
39
Exorcist's quarry : DEMON
40
Like a snap decision : SPUROFTHEMOMENT
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Lines man? : ACTOR
45
"You've got a deal!" : SOLD
46
Huge expanse : SEA
47
Tastelessly affected : TOOTOO
49
Christina of "The Opposite of Sex" : RICCI
52
Letters at a Nascar race : STP
53
Commodity in the old South : KINGCOTTON
58
Strand in winter, maybe : ICEIN
61
Grenoble's river : ISERE
62
Informal discussion : BULLSESSION
67
Subj. of this puzzle's theme : NBA
68
Healing plants : ALOES
69
Leave out, in speech : ELIDE
70
"Get comfy" : SIT
71
"Same here" : METOO
72
In shape : TONED
73
D.D.E.'s W.W. II command : ETO
Down
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Opposite of celebrate : MOURN
2
Carpi connectors : ULNAE
3
Stood for : MEANT
4
It's the law : DECREE
5
Palindrome center : ERE
6
Nutritional fig. : CAL
7
A.B.A. member: Abbr. : ATT
8
Impose (on) : FOIST
9
Munich ___ of 1938 : PACT
10
One to grow on? : ACRE
11
Esther Rolle sitcom : GOODTIMES
12
Hosp. areas : ERS
13
12-Down staffers : RNS
19
Start angling : CAST
21
Basketball Hall of Fame nickname : DRJ
24
Beach lapper : SURF
25
Condos, e.g. : UNITS
26
Chicken breed : LEGHORN
28
Make amends : ATONE
29
Ship commanded by Pinzón : PINTA
32
Hubbub : ADO
33
Confine, with "in" : HEM
34
Jrs.' exams : PSATS
35
___ Center : EPCOT
36
Cockpit aid : AUTOPILOT
38
Baseball's Bud : SELIG
41
Baloney : ROT
42
Montana's motto starter : ORO
43
1700 : MDCC
48
"The Grapes of Wrath" figure : OKIE
50
Invented : COINED
51
T.G.I.F. part : ITS
54
Atlas feature : INSET
55
High-strung : TENSE
56
Go around in circles? : ORBIT
57
"Cool!" : NEATO
59
1963 role for Liz : CLEO
60
Big name in petrol : ESSO
62
"Batman" sound : BAM
63
Relative of -let : ULE
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Highway warning : SLO
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"Boy, am ___ trouble!" : IIN
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Lofty lines : ODE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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