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New York Times, Friday, January 4, 2002

Author:
David J. Kahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
33-Across : Boombox button
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1893/15/19944/22/20245
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16241.551,23753%
David J. Kahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {FJKQZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 81 for Mr. Kahn. Friday freshness: 53%
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© 2002, The New York Times1/4/2 ( No. 19,050 )
Across
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Assortment : MIXEDBAG
9
Nickelodeon's parent : VIACOM
15
Kind of correspondence : ONETOONE
16
As a precaution : INCASE
17
Noted judge : LANCEITO
18
It acts on impulse : NEURON
19
Wall St. news : IPO
20
Marked by turmoil : STORMY
22
Literary monogram : RLS
23
15th-century vessel : NINA
25
Manifesto writer of 1848 : ENGELS
27
Churchyard tree in "Romeo and Juliet" : YEW
28
Storyteller of yore : AESOP
30
Assent : YEA
31
Words from Caesar : ICAME
33
Boombox button : REC
35
Turkey part : ANATOLIA
37
Onetime celebrated movie couple : BURTONANDTAYLOR
41
Like some income : UNEARNED
42
Partner of plata : ORO
43
Pop music's ___ Vanilli : MILLI
44
White House financial grp. : OMB
46
Something to let off : STEAM
50
Grade sch. subj. : SCI
51
Chronicles : ANNALS
54
Prefix with centric : ENDO
55
Cobb and Hardin : TYS
56
Land of Canaan : ISRAEL
58
Gymnast's goal : TEN
59
They may be found in long halls : ECHOES
62
Academic work : TREATISE
64
Ones in an instituteur's care : ELEVES
65
Old-fashioned gathering : HENPARTY
66
Kind of value : RESALE
67
Orphans, often : ADOPTEES
Down
1
Tirso de ___, Spanish dramatist who introduced Don Juan to literature : MOLINA
2
Where to find baked blackbirds : INAPIE
3
Elementary gases : XENONS
4
And more : ETC
5
Executes : DOES
6
Nightclub : BOITE
7
B.C. eulogist : ANTONY
8
37-Across in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" : GEORGEANDMARTHA
9
Collectible records : VINYL
10
Dvorák's Symphony No. 9 ___ minor : INE
11
Prefix with pressure : ACU
12
Tote : CARRYALL
13
Pavarotti standard : OSOLEMIO
14
Haberdasher's stock : MENSWEAR
21
"___ My Shadow" : MEAND
24
Like a major artery : AORTAL
26
Instruments with teakwood necks : SITARS
29
Midwest city founded as Fort Clark : PEORIA
32
Western critter : COYOTE
34
Atlanta's ___ Center : CNN
36
Z preceder : ATO
37
False directions, e.g. : BUMSTEER
38
Balancing act? : UNICYCLE
39
Enjoys : RELISHES
40
Ages : AEONS
45
Trumpeted : BLARED
47
Unabridged : ENTIRE
48
Latin song starter : ADESTE
49
Receipts : MONEYS
52
Friendly goblin in Scandinavian folklore : NISSE
53
"___ Evil" (Mia Farrow film) : SEENO
57
Arctic native : LAPP
60
Lab cells : OVA
61
Sniggler's catch : EEL
63
Work at lacemaking : TAT

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

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