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New York Times, Thursday, February 24, 2000

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
64-Across : Pest
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JKVX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 102 for Mr. Nosowsky. Thursday freshness: 69%
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© 2000, The New York Times2/24/0 ( No. 18,370 )
Across
1
Den denizen : BEARCUB
8
Littermates : PUPPIES
15
"Look Back in Anger" playwright : OSBORNE
16
Asleep at the switch : UNALERT
17
Toothpaste tube direction : SQUEEZE
18
Classic exile site : SIBERIA
19
Kayoed : OUT
20
Kind of tax : WITHHOLDING
22
Dovetail : MESH
24
"___ Love You" : PSI
25
Chilled drink : NOG
26
It delivers the goods : UPS
28
Place for court battles? : GYM
30
Make permanent : ETCH
34
Three-time Oscar-winning director : CAPRA
37
Leading : AHEAD
39
"I know what you're up to!" : OHO
40
Former name of Belize : BRITISHHONDURAS
43
High rollers? : ELS
44
Plant twice : RESOW
45
In escrow : ASIDE
46
Traipse : ROAM
48
Prune : LOP
49
___ Accord (1998 peace agreement) : WYE
50
Cartoon utterance : OOF
52
Nashville-to-Chattanooga dir. : ESE
54
Flatboat : SCOW
58
Thrifty traveler's stop : YOUTHHOSTEL
63
Toothpaste box letters : ADA
64
Pest : ANNOYER
65
Red Skelton catchphrase : IDOODIT
67
Fake : NOTREAL
68
Running a temperature : FEBRILE
69
In a coarse manner : GROSSLY
70
Supermarket section : FREEZER
Down
1
Kind of buddy : BOSOM
2
Suffix with Roman or arab : ESQUE
3
Is adjacent to : ABUTS
4
Preschoolers? : ROE
5
Work party : CREW
6
Releases a fly? : UNZIPS
7
Borscht basics : BEETS
8
Midwife's exhortation : PUSH
9
Local personality? : UNIONMAN
10
Poet Neruda : PABLO
11
Security : PLEDGE
12
Yesterday, in Italy : IERI
13
___ go bragh : ERIN
14
Certain partygoer : STAG
21
1959 Academy Award song : HIGHHOPES
23
Offended : HURT
27
One and one : PAIR
29
"Ouch!" : YEOW
31
Topological shapes : TORI
32
Its capital is N'Djamena : CHAD
33
57-Down carrier : HOSE
34
Semi conductor? : CBER
35
Alice's chronicler : ARLO
36
Galileo's birthplace : PISA
37
Mock phrase of insight : AHSO
38
"Saving Private Ryan" depiction : DDAY
41
Be one's own doctor : SELFHEAL
42
Aspirin has several : USES
47
Tools (along) : MOTORS
49
Hoer : WEEDER
51
"Indeed!" : OHYES
53
Blotto : STIFF
55
Spanish seaport : CADIZ
56
"Swan Lake" role : ODILE
57
Puzzle's theme (shown in 20-, 40-, 58-Across and 21-Down) : WATER
58
Bright side? : YANG
59
___ about : ONOR
60
"Render therefore ___ Caesar..." : UNTO
61
Site south of Paris : ORLY
62
Ring setting? : LOBE
66
Bauxite, e.g. : ORE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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