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New York Times, Thursday, November 21, 2002

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
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331.591,23673%
Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JKZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 59 for Mr. DiPietro. Thursday freshness: 2%
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© 2002, The New York Times11/21/2 ( No. 19,371 )
Across
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Photo : STILL
6
Speck : MOTE
10
"Later" : TATA
14
Pointed craft : CANOE
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Out there : AFAR
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Animal with twisted horns : IBEX
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One reason more people are going to the movies these days? : IMAXFACTOR
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Skirt style : MAXI
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The shortest of 12: Abbr. : FEB
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One may become bald : TIRE
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Popular pie ingredient : PECAN
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Part of a certain nest egg, briefly : IRA
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Order to a homemaking spouse? : IRONDARLING
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Not accept : DENY
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Where you may do your bidding? : EBAY
30
Babe in the woods : FAWN
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Like some candles : UNLIT
34
Workout segment : SET
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Ask for proof of age for an ardent varsity athlete? : IDAVIDLETTERMAN
41
Sled, e.g. : TOY
42
Back-and-forth, for short : QANDA
43
One may get pushed around : CART
44
Early Soviet space probe : LUNA
45
Support group? : BRAS
47
English-style county near Roma? : ITALIASHIRE
52
Bygone school event : HOP
55
Pat : DABAT
56
"___ move" : YOUR
57
Swelling reducer : ICE
58
Tiny building block : ATOM
59
Recently hired by the Superstation? : INATTURNER
62
Mother of Hephaestus : HERA
63
Raw material? : DATA
64
Less : NOTAS
65
Scraps : ORTS
66
Prefers, with "for" : OPTS
67
Plum part : STONE
Down
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Tales of ET's, e.g. : SCIFI
2
Big top figure : TAMER
3
Not doing well at all : INABADWAY
4
Bagel store offering : LOX
5
Kept : LEFTIN
6
Computer user's timesaver : MACRO
7
Not just occasionally : OFTEN
8
Literally, "way" : TAO
9
Miss a cue, say : ERR
10
Seasonable : TIMELY
11
Crude counters : ABACI
12
Denison denizen : TEXAN
13
Canner's job : AXING
18
Light : AIRY
22
Go on and on : PRATE
25
Where the mouth is : DELTA
26
Some : ABIT
28
Post delivery: Abbr. : ENV
30
In shape : FIT
31
Commotion : ADO
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Skeleton components : ULNAS
33
Hoops Hall-of-Famer Irish : NED
34
Ram : SMASHINTO
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Hammer site : EAR
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Blast source : TNT
38
Fed-up person's cry : IQUIT
39
Plato of "Diff'rent Strokes" : DANA
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Elvis's label : RCA
44
Some pack carriers : LLAMAS
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English Leather alternative : BRUT
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You may have seen them before : RERUNS
47
Snake River locale : IDAHO
48
47-Down product : TATER
49
End early : ABORT
50
Marriott alternative : HYATT
51
Specks : IOTAS
53
Limitless quantity : OCEAN
54
Intrinsically : PERSE
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Rite answer? : IDO
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Brief time out? : NAP
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Become inedible : ROT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later.

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