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New York Times, Friday, February 14, 2003

Author:
M. Francis Vuolo
Editor:
Will Shortz
28-Across : Battlements in Spanish castles
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Michael Vuolo

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 40 This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Vuolo. Friday freshness: 7%
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HEART
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© 2003, The New York Times2/14/3 ( No. 19,456 )
Across
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___ d'Ouessant (westernmost point of France) : ILE
4
Greek director Angelopoulos : THEO
8
60's TV boy : OPIE
12
Piatigorsky specialty : CELLO
15
Place for portraits : HALL
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Thin haze : FILM
17
At full throttle : AMAIN
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Put in ___ for : ABID
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Friend of the powerless: Abbr. : ACLU
20
Changed but not seriously : MONKEYEDWITH
22
Stops: Abbr. : STAS
23
Win over : ENDEAR
24
Support : BEAROUT
26
Scientology founder ___ Hubbard : LRON
28
Battlements in Spanish castles : TORRES
30
Not straight : WAVY
33
Ran into : MET
35
Pocket : STEAL
36
Org. for arguers? : ABA
37
"Attention!" : NOWHEARTHIS
40
Part of a metaphor : ISA
41
Rich boy in "Nancy" : ROLLO
43
Heat source : SUN
44
Particular : ITEM
45
It may smooth the way : PLEASE
47
More than "Phooey!" : DAMN
49
Strong : INTENSE
52
The house of Juan Carlos : LACASA
56
Region NW of Genoa : ASTI
57
Hurricane Carter, for one : MIDDLEWEIGHT
59
End of a punch? : CHIN
60
Leg up : EDGE
61
Certain fur : STOAT
62
It has many hitches : RENO
63
Many an old Hapsburg subject : SLAV
64
Nero's land : TERRA
65
Horace volume : ODES
66
Deli order : HERO
67
Travel method : AIR
Down
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Start of an old boast : ICAME
2
Bar wedge : LEMON
3
Animal with a black stripe down its back : ELAND
4
Spring event : THAW
5
1980's Mideast envoy Philip : HABIB
6
Exclusive : ELITE
7
Routine : OLDHAT
8
In some way : OFASORT
9
Tip to solving this puzzle (with the key parts to be said out loud) : PICTUREIT
10
Fidgety, maybe : ILLATEASE
11
Pests to Australian ranchers : EMUS
13
Apt : LIKELY
14
Two semesters : ONEYEAR
21
___ One (indoor kart racing) : DROMO
25
Founding editor of The New Yorker : ROSS
27
Just out : NEW
29
Lambaste : SLAM
30
At ___ speed (quickly) : WARP
31
Like poll taxes : ABOLISHED
32
This puzzle, e.g. : VALENTINE
34
Music, dance, painting, etc. : THEARTS
37
Find (out) : NOSE
38
1963 title role for Paul Newman : HUD
39
Together : INALL
42
Demographer's grouping : LATINOS
44
Egg on : INCITE
46
Tangle : ENMESH
48
Famous blonde bombshell : MAEWEST
50
Move furtively : SIDLE
51
Hoover's predecessor? : EDGAR
53
Ancient marketplace : AGORA
54
Actress Belafonte : SHARI
55
___ of roses : ATTAR
56
Prefix with phobia : ACRO
58
Rock group from Akron that was a 1980 one-hit wonder : DEVO

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

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