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New York Times, Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Author:
Richard Chisholm
Editor:
Will Shortz
49-Across : Part of S.P.C.A.: Abbr.
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Richard Chisholm

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JKQZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Chisholm. Tuesday freshness: 41%
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© 2003, The New York Times1/21/3 ( No. 19,432 )
Across
1
Airline to Tel Aviv : ELAL
5
Soothing spots : SPAS
9
Pueblo dwelling : ADOBE
14
Broadway Auntie : MAME
15
Strait-laced : PRIM
16
Like a highway : LANED
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Some bargains : TWOFORONEOFFERS
20
___ Sark : CUTTY
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Make use of : TAP
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Trident feature : TINE
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Sweetie : HON
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Top rating, perhaps : TEN
26
___ room : REC
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Diamond ___ : LIL
29
Not the finest dog : MUTT
31
Be an agent (for) : REP
33
Dukes and earls : NOBLES
35
Prefix with graphic : ORTHO
37
Punk's pistol : HEATER
39
Overly ominous : TOOFOREBODING
43
Scarsdale, e.g., to New York City : SUBURB
44
Dummy Mortimer : SNERD
46
"Honor Thy Father" author : TALESE
49
Part of S.P.C.A.: Abbr. : SOC
51
Door sign : EXIT
52
Maugham's "Cakes and ___" : ALE
53
Look over : EYE
55
A bartender may run one : TAB
57
42-Down scores: Abbr. : TDS
58
Ella Fitzgerald specialty : SCAT
60
"Slippery" tree : ELM
62
"___ beaucoup" : MERCI
64
Reelection toast? : TOFOURMOREYEARS
68
Happening : EVENT
69
Devil's doings : EVIL
70
Starting from : ASOF
71
Turn blue, maybe : REDYE
72
Cincinnati team : REDS
73
TV host who wrote "Leading With My Chin" : LENO
Down
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C.P.R. expert : EMT
2
Where some suits are pressed : LAWCOURT
3
Be the equivalent of : AMOUNTTO
4
Hit the road : LEFT
5
More agile : SPRYER
6
In favor : PRO
7
"Say it ___ so!" : AINT
8
Sling mud at : SMEAR
9
Sitcom extraterrestrial : ALF
10
Off one's trolley : DAFT
11
Tip of Massachusetts : ONEILL
12
Songwriter Taupin : BERNIE
13
Classic Fords : EDSELS
18
Mel of the Polo Grounds : OTT
19
Willing to try : OPENTO
23
Patient-care grp. : HMO
25
Associate of Gandhi : NEHRU
27
Yale students starting in 1969 : COEDS
30
Not these : THOSE
32
Jury's makeup : PEERS
34
Pickling need : BRINE
36
Helpful : OFUSE
38
Monastery head : ABBOT
40
Compliant one : OBEYER
41
Cry heard in a 2-Down : NEXTCASE
42
Where Giants and Titans clash : GRIDIRON
45
Skid row woe : DTS
46
Wine expert : TASTER
47
Dinette set spot : ALCOVE
48
Flipped (through) : LEAFED
50
Desert ruminants : CAMELS
54
Bugs bugged him : ELMER
56
Former Tunisian ruler : BEY
59
Cousin of an Obie : TONY
61
Pull up stakes : MOVE
63
"Get ___!" : REAL
65
Western native : UTE
66
Free (of) : RID
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Bay area airport letters : SFO

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

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