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New York Times, Saturday, October 4, 2003

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
66-Across : Alternative to Subway or Blimpie
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1938/7/199612/22/202321
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385152119522716
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 28 Missing: {FVW} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 71 for Mr. Quigley. Saturday freshness: 26%
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© 2003, The New York Times10/4/3 ( No. 19,688 )
Across
1
Joseph Conrad's dishonored officer : LORDJIM
8
Some pops : RCCOLAS
15
At the movies, perhaps : ONADATE
16
Home of Horseshoe Bend National Military Park : ALABAMA
17
Moved away : RECEDED
18
Pesto bit : PINENUT
19
Part of l'année : ETE
20
Utter : EMIT
22
Big name in 8-Down : DRDRE
23
___ Dove (constellation near Canis Major) : NOAHS
25
Philosopher Machiavelli : NICCOLO
28
King of Albania, 1928-39 : ZOGI
29
"Little Iodine" cartoonist : HATLO
30
People are closely watched in them: Abbr. : ICUS
33
Kind of finish : MATTE
35
It may be changed at the altar : LASTNAME
37
Cocktail part? : MAI
38
Hall of entertainment : ARSENIO
40
Barbell abbr. : LBS
41
City on the Huron River : ANNARBOR
43
Black, as la nuit : NOIRE
45
Where AT&T is T : NYSE
46
With 37-Down, without dissent : ASONE
48
Publisher's concern: Abbr. : CIRC
50
Sounds of gaiety : TRALALA
52
Outer part of a seed : TESTA
53
Many-stringed Japanese instruments : KOTOS
55
Renaissance patron : ESTE
57
Chunk of green : SOD
58
Jude, e.g. : EPISTLE
61
Less svelte : DUMPIER
63
TDK competitor : MEMOREX
64
Calm : ATPEACE
65
Bishop, e.g. : PRELATE
66
Alternative to Subway or Blimpie : QUIZNOS
Down
1
First name in 1920's-40's Broadway : LORENZ
2
The drink you shouldn't have had : ONETOOMANY
3
What a bomb defuser may be in : RACEAGAINSTTIME
4
Onetime White House inits. : DDE
5
Wears out : JADES
6
Couple : ITEM
7
Hegira destination : MEDINA
8
CD store section : RAP
9
Second-century year : CLI
10
Like some attitudes : CANDO
11
College that was a center of abolitionism : OBERLIN
12
Friend of Han Solo, in "Star Wars" : LANDOCALRISSIAN
13
Tatar Strait feeder : AMUR
14
Be enough for : SATE
21
Lead, often : TITLEROLE
24
Chart maker : HIT
26
House : CLAN
27
Math function : COSINE
29
Like some holistic treatments : HERBAL
31
"Baudolino" author : UMBERTOECO
32
Parisian possessive : SES
34
Pitching choice : TAR
36
Further : TOO
37
See 46-Across : MAN
39
Cub of note : SOSA
42
"Ssss" maker : AEROSOL
44
Hotel amenity : ICE
47
Apple market? : NASDAQ
49
Nuclei : CADRES
51
Latin stars : ASTRA
52
Lento e largo : TEMPI
53
Pro footballer turned congressman : KEMP
54
Abbr. on some dials : OPER
56
Sight in a Degas painting : TUTU
59
Umpire's call : LET
60
River to the English Channel : EXE
62
Candy brand : PEZ

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

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