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New York Times, Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Author:
Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke
Editor:
Will Shortz
48-Across : "Now I see!"
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
228/26/200410/23/202314
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
13632331
ScrabDebutFresh
1.599247%
Stella Zawistowski
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
198/26/200410/19/201518
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2264320
ScrabDebutFresh
1.6110045%
Bruce Venzke

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 35 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Zawistowski. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Venzke. Tuesday freshness: 35%
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© 2004, The New York Times11/16/4 ( No. 20,097 )
Across
1
Rating a blue ribbon : BEST
5
Unceasingly : ONEND
10
Sign over, as rights : CEDE
14
Florence's river : ARNO
15
Gossip's tidbit : RUMOR
16
W.W. II general Bradley : OMAR
17
"Uh-uh!" : YOUMUSTBEJOKING
20
"The Natural" role Roy ___ : HOBBS
21
Some parents : MAS
22
Sergeant once played by Phil Silvers : BILKO
23
Unlocks, poetically : OPES
25
Doctor's charge : FEE
26
"Uh-uh!" : WHENPIGSFLY
31
Mideast grp. : PLO
34
Higher on the Mohs scale : HARDER
35
Basketball's ___ Ming : YAO
36
Words to an old chap : ISAY
37
Fact-filled volume : ALMANAC
39
Cultural programs they're not : TRASHTV
41
Newshawk's source, often : LEAK
42
Tacit approval : NOD
44
Food or air : INTAKE
45
Hook shape : ESS
46
"Uh-uh!" : THERESNOWAY
48
"Now I see!" : AHA
49
Pro foe : ANTI
50
"So long, mon ami" : ADIEU
53
Farmer's sci. : AGR
54
Mall stand : KIOSK
59
"Uh-uh!" : AINTGONNAHAPPEN
62
Bit attachment : REIN
63
Muralist Rivera : DIEGO
64
Within reason : SANE
65
Singer James or Jones : ETTA
66
First name in cosmetics : ESTEE
67
Part of many "shoppe" names : OLDE
Down
1
Sen. Evan of Indiana : BAYH
2
Suffix with switch : EROO
3
Give the cold shoulder : SNUB
4
Pyramid, maybe : TOMB
5
"Chicago Hope" sets, for short : ORS
6
Pumpkin pie spice : NUTMEG
7
Diplomat's post : EMBASSY
8
Answers from a 49-Across : NOES
9
Hoopster Erving's nickname : DRJ
10
Newswoman Roberts : COKIE
11
Early Oscar winner ___ Jannings : EMIL
12
Like a damp cellar : DANK
13
Hence : ERGO
18
Ashe Stadium event : USOPEN
19
Outdated wedding-vow word : OBEY
24
Voracious fish : PIRANHA
25
One making arrangements : FLORIST
26
Jonah's swallower : WHALE
27
Patriot Nathan and others : HALES
28
"Aunt ___ Cope Book" : ERMAS
29
Bismarck's state: Abbr. : NDAK
30
___ Tuesday (Mardi Gras) : FAT
31
"Nonsense!" : PSHAW
32
Andy Kaufman's role on "Taxi" : LATKA
33
Yiddish "Egad!" : OYVEY
36
Analogist's words : ISTO
38
Iowa college : COE
40
Golf's Sorenstam : ANNIKA
43
Where Friday was once seen on Thursday : DRAGNET
46
Hoodlum : THUG
47
Cause to see red : ENRAGE
48
Big name in health care : AETNA
50
River of Bern : AARE
51
South Beach ___ : DIET
52
"What's ___ for me?" : INIT
53
Black cuckoos : ANIS
55
___ facto : IPSO
56
Fire ___ (gem) : OPAL
57
E-mail command : SEND
58
Tot's perch : KNEE
60
Lines from Shelley : ODE
61
Clod chopper : HOE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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