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New York Times, Wednesday, February 14, 2001

Author:
Robert Dillman
Editor:
Will Shortz
15-Across : "Son ___ gun!"
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Robert Dillman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {Q} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 18 for Mr. Dillman. Wednesday freshness: 33%
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© 2001, The New York Times2/14/1 ( No. 18,726 )
Across
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Stored, as honey : HIVED
6
Name prefix meaning "son of" : MAC
9
Make provision (for) : ALLOW
14
Where drachmas were once spent : AGORA
15
"Son ___ gun!" : OFA
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Sponger : LEECH
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Start of an idle question : DOUNIFORMSINTHE
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Many namesakes: Abbr. : JRS
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State tree of New Jersey : REDOAK
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"Psst! Pass ___!" : ITON
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___ Affair : XYZ
24
Baseball's strikeout king : RYAN
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Scharnhorst admiral : SPEE
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Yokels : CLODS
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Decline : EBB
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Big name in philanthropy : CARNEGIE
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Bologna's place : ITALIA
39
Question, part 2 : ARMOREDDIVISION
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Pressure, in a way : LEANON
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Surmounted : OVERCAME
43
Person who knows the drill?: Abbr. : DDS
44
Slingshot item : STONE
46
Much binary code : ONES
47
Joint tenant's place? : CELL
48
Way to stand : PAT
50
Spanish ayes : SISI
53
Brings out : EDUCES
56
Cross shape : TAU
59
End of the question : INCLUDETANKTOPS
62
Deborah of "Days of Our Lives" : ADAIR
63
Sign of aging : SAG
64
Prepare for reuse, perhaps : ERASE
65
Parable's message : MORAL
66
Old pronoun : THY
67
No longer in : DATED
Down
1
Muslim pilgrimage : HADJ
2
Operatic prince : IGOR
3
R.S.V.P. part : VOUS
4
East ender? : ERN
5
Holstein's home : DAIRY
6
Anticipation or sadness, e.g. : MOOD
7
Onetime Michael Jackson do : AFRO
8
Trans Am rival : CAMARO
9
"Aladdin" prince : ALI
10
Red Square figure : LENIN
11
Riga resident : LETT
12
___ Rios, Jamaica : OCHO
13
Declaration of Independence starter : WHEN
18
Shriner topper : FEZ
19
Go into free-fall : SKYDIVE
23
Hard-to-combine gas : XENON
25
Up and about : ASTIR
26
Burn : SCALD
27
Skinned : PARED
28
"Aunt ___ Cope Book" : ERMAS
29
Massenet's "Le ___" : CID
30
Deceived : LEDON
31
Name in 2000 headlines : ELIAN
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Ecological community : BIOME
33
Deadly poisons : BANES
35
Irregularly notched : EROSE
36
Made tame : GENTLED
38
Cravat's cousin : ASCOT
40
"___ seen enough!" : IVE
45
Guinness adjective : OLDEST
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Paramecium propellers : CILIA
48
Its tip may be felt : PEN
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Set, as a price : ASKED
50
Chang and Eng's homeland : SIAM
51
___-European : INDO
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Mark for life : SCAR
54
Jazz home : UTAH
55
Shrewd : CAGY
56
Precisely : TOAT
57
Nave neighbor : APSE
58
Played for a sap : USED
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Net location : URL
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La-la starter : TRA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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