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New York Times, Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Author:
Alan Arbesfeld
Editor:
Will Shortz
38-Across : Doctor's query
TotalDebutLatest
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Alan Arbesfeld

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 77 for Mr. Arbesfeld. Tuesday freshness: 80%
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© 2007, The New York Times12/18/7 ( No. 21,224 )
Across
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Comment not to be taken seriously : JEST
5
___ Marley's ghost in "A Christmas Carol" : JACOB
10
Con game : SCAM
14
Unwanted spots : ACNE
15
Band together : UNITE
16
Poi source : TARO
17
Response to a knock : WHOCANITBE
19
29,035 ft., for Mt. Everest : ELEV
20
Have a bawl : SOB
21
Designer label letters : DKNY
22
Heap kudos on : PRAISE
24
"For instance ..." : SAY
25
Empathize with : FEELFOR
26
The important thing : WHATMATTERS
31
A Chaplin : OONA
32
Sluggers' stats : RBIS
33
Lhasa ___ (Tibetan dogs) : APSOS
38
Doctor's query : WHEREDOESITHURT
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Scattered about : SOWED
42
Entre ___ : NOUS
43
Metropolitan ___ : AREA
44
"Never!" : WHENPIGSFLY
47
Some apartments : STUDIOS
51
Uno + due : TRE
52
Apartment window sign : TORENT
53
Kudrow of "Friends" : LISA
55
Mediterranean fruit : FIG
58
Both: Prefix : AMBI
59
Discounter's pitch : WHYPAYMORE
62
Computer with an iSight camera : IMAC
63
Have an ___ mystery : AIROF
64
Plow pullers : OXEN
65
Unit of force : DYNE
66
Teammate of Snider and Hodges : REESE
67
Classic computer game set on a seemingly deserted island : MYST
Down
1
1975 Spielberg thriller : JAWS
2
Eerie cave effect : ECHO
3
One not associating with the likes of you? : SNOB
4
Private eye, for short : TEC
5
Place to find auto parts : JUNKYARD
6
Have ___ with : ANIN
7
Half of an E.P.A. mileage rating : CITY
8
Pony players' locale, in brief : OTB
9
Paging device : BEEPER
10
Incredible bargain : STEAL
11
Where the San Andreas Fault is: Abbr. : CALIF
12
"Ain't!" retort : ARESO
13
Shaker's partner : MOVER
18
Genesis patriarch : ADAM
23
Convened again : RESAT
24
"Can you believe this?" look : STARE
25
Come clean : FESSUP
26
Knocks the socks off : WOWS
27
Alternative to a Twinkie : HOHO
28
From the top : ANEW
29
Steakhouse selections : TBONES
30
Attach, in a way : TIEON
34
Terrible twos, e.g. : PHASE
35
Browse, as the Web : SURF
36
Sportscaster Hershiser : OREL
37
Hang around : STAY
39
Dickens's Drood : EDWIN
40
"Can I come out now?" : ISITSAFE
45
Armed conflict : HOTWAR
46
Battleship shade : GRAY
47
Sober : STAID
48
Rock opera with the song "Pinball Wizard" : TOMMY
49
Densely packed, in a way : URBAN
50
Pour salt on, perhaps : DEICE
53
Apollo's instrument : LYRE
54
N.Y.S.E. debuts : IPOS
55
Full of guile : FOXY
56
Tees off : IRES
57
Fellow : GENT
60
Step on it : HIE
61
Soccer ___ : MOM

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

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