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New York Times, Thursday, February 15, 2001

Author:
David Ainslie Macleod
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Across : Politically incorrect coat
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David Ainslie Macleod

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FJQVZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Macleod. Thursday freshness: 67%
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© 2001, The New York Times2/15/1 ( No. 18,727 )
Across
1
One getting a cut : AGENT
6
Tout's tabulation : ODDS
10
1968 folk album : ARLO
14
Mother of Perseus : DANAE
15
Lug : LOUT
16
Animal house? : LAIR
17
Producer of Eazy-E and Eminem : DRDRE
18
Item used in basement waterproofing : DRAINTILE
20
Sonja Henie's debut film, 1936 : ONEINAMILLION
22
Methodical : NEAT
23
Commencement dangler : TASSEL
24
Bully : COW
27
Geographical connectors : STRAITS
29
Truth, old-style : SOOTH
31
Inability to speak : MUTISM
35
Pro ___ : RATA
36
1971 James Taylor/Warren Oates cult film : TWOLANEBLACKTOP
41
Perfect : HONE
42
Politically incorrect coat : ERMINE
43
Adjust, as a brooch : REPIN
45
They may have shorts : CINEMAS
50
24-time Ryder Cup winner : USA
51
Kind of soup : OXTAIL
55
When tripled, an old war cry : TORA
56
1932 Bette Davis melodrama : THREEONAMATCH
59
"The Thin Man" producer Hunt ___ : STROMBERG
61
Hi from Ho : ALOHA
62
Nautical nose : PROW
63
Senate accusation : ETTU
64
TV or radio station : AIRER
65
Cheerleaders' practice : YELL
66
Split in the cold, perhaps : CHAP
67
Marble-producing Italian city : MASSA
Down
1
Annexes : ADDONS
2
Relative of cerise : GARNET
3
Take to one's heart : ENDEAR
4
Airport near Tokyo : NARITA
5
New driver, maybe : TEEN
6
Rembrandt, for one : OLDMASTER
7
Socialite Duke : DORIS
8
Some exhaust systems : DUALS
9
Subway station sight : STILE
10
Kind of flute : ALTO
11
Shower apparel : RAINCOAT
12
Diminutive, in Dogpatch : LIL
13
It's fine for a refinery : ORE
19
Guitarist Lofgren : NILS
21
Harmonize : ATTUNE
25
Sgt. Snorkel's dog : OTTO
26
Larrup : WHAP
28
Ogden Nash's "___ Stranger Here Myself" : IMA
30
Mork's planet : ORK
32
ThinkPad producer : IBM
33
Cutting repeatedly : SLICINGUP
34
Malacañang Palace locale : MANILA
36
By way of, briefly : THRU
37
Troubles : WOES
38
Like a beat cop : ONPATROL
39
Haole's souvenir : LEI
40
The 900's, e.g.: Abbr. : CEN
44
Benchmark : NORM
46
List ender : ETALIA
47
Drives (along) : MOTORS
48
Parts of feet : ARCHES
49
Most of Mauritania : SAHARA
52
Mediterranean ship : XEBEC
53
Canines : TEETH
54
Cardiological concern : AORTA
57
Ginsberg poem : HOWL
58
Word with yes, no or thank you : MAAM
59
Good looker? : SPY
60
Half of sei : TRE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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