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New York Times, Wednesday, December 12, 2001

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
24-Across : Select a 1918 Billy Murray song?
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Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FQV} This is puzzle # 74 for Mr. Gordon. Wednesday freshness: 73%
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© 2001, The New York Times12/12/1 ( No. 19,027 )
Across
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Like a melon : JUICY
6
Be itinerant : ROAM
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One who's driving on air? : CBER
14
Top mark : APLUS
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Book before Nehemiah : EZRA
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Take on : HIRE
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Telephone the catalog merchant Bean at midnight? : CALLLLLATE
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Census data : AGES
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Record label known for compilations : KTEL
21
Pencil holder, at times : EAR
22
President-___ : ELECT
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Physics unit : ERG
24
Select a 1918 Billy Murray song? : PICKKKKKATY
27
Chinese restaurant flower : TEAROSE
29
Fix : RIG
30
Costa del ___ : SOL
31
Baseball's Bud : SELIG
32
Succor : AID
33
Brontë heroine : EYRE
34
Fast jets for a top banana? : BOSSSSSTS
38
Velvety growth : MOSS
41
Sch. group : PTA
42
Cummerbund's place : WAIST
46
Wrath : IRE
47
All-Star third baseman Ron : CEY
48
Gripes : PLAINTS
50
Half a dozen erotic pictures of chests? : SIXXXXXRAYS
53
"The Bells" poet : POE
54
Wreck : TOTAL
55
Hall-of-Famer nicknamed "Bobby Hockey" : ORR
56
Mark on a graph : PLOT
57
"The Black Stallion" boy : ALEC
58
Commercials for a Des Moines driving org.? : IOWAAAAADS
61
"Etta ___" : KETT
62
Raised : BRED
63
Neither early nor late : ONCUE
64
Little Oil Drop was its mascot : ESSO
65
Statistics figure : MODE
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Stays fresh : KEEPS
Down
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Hardcover covers : JACKETS
2
Trapped : UPATREE
3
Criminal : ILLEGAL
4
Select : CULL
5
Fashion inits. : YSL
6
Tie the knot a second time? : RELACE
7
Arkansas's ___ Mountains : OZARK
8
College major : ART
9
Madonna's role in "A League of Their Own" : MAE
10
Pool hall need : CHALK
11
New Orleans, with "the" : BIGEASY
12
Builder : ERECTOR
13
Change the look of : RESTYLE
18
Luau souvenirs : LEIS
22
Heart chart: Abbr. : EKG
24
Comics possum : POGO
25
Rap's ___ Kross : KRIS
26
Grade-schoolers : KIDS
28
Barbecue fare : RIBS
32
Simile center : ASA
33
Actor Morales : ESAI
35
Glasses, commercially : SPEX
36
Charon's river : STYX
37
"___ the night ..." : TWAS
38
Boner : MISTAKE
39
Ripken's team for 3,001 games : ORIOLES
40
Ice hockey teams, e.g. : SEXTETS
43
One way to jog : INPLACE
44
Arose : STOODUP
45
Flies over the equator? : TSETSES
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First year in St. Pius I's papacy : CXL
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Thanksgiving Day event : PARADE
49
Vega's constellation : LYRA
51
Brand of knife : XACTO
52
Participated in crew : ROWED
56
Glazier's item : PANE
58
PC maker : IBM
59
Guadalajara gold : ORO
60
Fine, informally : AOK

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

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