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New York Times, Tuesday, January 23, 2001

Author:
Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : The Marines, e.g.
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {BFZ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 66 for Ms. Salomon. Tuesday freshness: 70%
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C
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© 2001, The New York Times1/23/1 ( No. 18,704 )
Across
1
The Marines, e.g. : CORPS
6
Mafia bosses : DONS
10
Venus de Milo's lack : ARMS
14
Take as one's own : ADOPT
15
Guinness who was knighted : ALEC
16
"Star Wars" princess : LEIA
17
20
Submissions to eds. : MSS
21
What the booby prize winner scored : LEAST
22
"Money ___ object" : ISNO
23
Purim honoree : ESTHER
25
Yellow-ribboned tree : OAK
27
N.B.A.'s Erving, informally : DRJ
29
Space race acronym : NASA
30
Rules maven : HOYLE
32
Squeeze (out) : EKE
33
Wedding guide : USHER
36
Hosted, as 3-Down : EMCEED
38
41
Chinese dumpling : WONTON
42
Best : OUTDO
43
"What Kind of Fool ___?" : AMI
44
Wrinkled fruit : PRUNE
46
"___ there?" (part of a knock-knock joke) : WHOS
50
Gen-___ : XER
51
Martini maker : GIN
52
Tomorrow, in Tijuana : MANANA
54
Roman wrap : TOGA
56
Director DeMille : CECIL
59
"Oy ___!" : VEY
60
63
Was in the hole : OWED
64
Disrobe : PEEL
65
Writer Joyce Carol ___ : OATES
66
Means justifiers : ENDS
67
"Check this out!" : PSST
68
Exxon alternative : AMOCO
Down
1
It opens in a public square in Seville : CARMEN
2
Forsyth's "The ___ File" : ODESSA
3
Friars Club events : ROASTS
4
Mail order abbr. : PPD
5
Edwardian or Victorian : STYLE
6
Gillian's role on "The X-Files" : DANA
7
An 88, e.g. : OLDS
8
Child's wish for Christmas : NEWTOY
9
Biol. or chem. : SCI
10
Whittier poem "___ Well" : ALLS
11
Dancer's partners : REINDEER
12
Beethoven's Ninth is in one : MINORKEY
13
Give in to gravity : SAG
18
___ Lingus : AER
19
At a feverish pace : LIKEMAD
24
Hangout : HAUNT
26
Sealskin wearer, maybe : ALEUT
28
Pa Clampett : JED
30
The Beatles' "And I Love ___" : HER
31
Bean on the screen : ORSON
34
Makeshift : STOPGAP
35
Artist Matisse : HENRI
37
Queen topper : CROWN
38
Where you're from : HOMETOWN
39
Having a pressing need? : UNIRONED
40
What's what in Spain : QUE
41
Car wash option : WAX
45
What many brothers are also : UNCLES
47
Must : HAVETO
48
"I'll be right there!" : ONESEC
49
States as fact : SAYSSO
52
Russian space station : MIR
53
Big name in kitchen foil : ALCOA
55
Mount Olympus dwellers : GODS
57
Baby blues : EYES
58
Kentucky Derby prospect : COLT
60
A Stooge : MOE
61
Across the street from: Abbr. : OPP
62
Stage hog : HAM

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

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