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New York Times, Thursday, February 5, 2004

Author:
Alan Arbesfeld
Editor:
Will Shortz
65-Across : R-rated, maybe
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Alan Arbesfeld

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJQVWX} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 61 for Mr. Arbesfeld. Thursday freshness: 21%
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© 2004, The New York Times2/5/4 ( No. 19,812 )
Across
1
Six-time Best Actress nominee : KERR
5
Score : NOTCH
10
Move slowly : OOZE
14
Onetime newsman ___ Abel : ELIE
15
Flip over : ADORE
16
Air-cooled machine gun : BREN
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Cave explorer's need : LAMP
18
Where explorer John Cabot was born : GENOA
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Take to mean : READ
20
Road repair tools : PNEUMATICDRILLS
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Barbecue items : BUNS
24
Test for some srs. : GRE
25
Program begun under Kennedy : APOLLO
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"Thou pleasing, dreadful thought," to Addison : ETERNITY
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Western hoopster, for short : SONIC
34
Gillette product : ATRA
35
Norma Webster's middle name : RAE
36
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Ike's command in W.W. II : ETO
41
"Armageddon" author : URIS
42
Film producer credited with discovering Sophia Loren : PONTI
43
Woody Allen-like : NEUROTIC
46
Snags : DELAYS
47
Two-time U.S. Open winner : ELS
48
"No problem!" : SURE
49
Classic geocentric theory : PTOLEMAICSYSTEM
57
Certain sitar piece : RAGA
58
Cant : ARGOT
59
"___ Road" (1999 Oprah's Book Club selection) : TARA
60
___ house (down-home music site) : OPRY
61
TV exec Arledge : ROONE
62
Tennis score : ADIN
63
Silent parts of 20-, 36- and 49-Across : PEES
64
Schlepper : TOTER
65
R-rated, maybe : RACY
Down
1
Sustenance for a sea urchin : KELP
2
Joie de vivre : ELAN
3
White coat : RIME
4
Plato's ideal : REPUBLIC
5
Where Jonny Moseley won a skiing gold medal : NAGANO
6
"Golden Boy" playwright : ODETS
7
N.B.A.'s Kukoc : TONI
8
Bigmouthed critter : CROC
9
Helmets and such : HEADGEAR
10
Rockne player : OBRIEN
11
Former Dodger Hershiser : OREL
12
Enthusiasm : ZEAL
13
Periods : ENDS
21
Nursery buy : MULCH
22
Elementary letters? : RRR
25
Town near Snowmass : ASPEN
26
Mail, in Marseille : POSTE
27
"Shame ___!" : ONYOU
28
Reason to be good : ETHIC
29
___ chic : TRES
30
Figure skater Slutskaya : IRINA
31
Toothsome : TASTY
32
Himalayan sightings : YETIS
34
Longfellow's bell town : ATRI
37
Fool : OUTSMART
38
Silly trick : APERY
39
Guiding light : POLESTAR
44
Circuit breakers : RELAYS
45
Adjective sometimes used with 60-Across : OLE
46
1970's Plymouth : DUSTER
48
Bakery treat : SCONE
49
Brace : PROP
50
Mending stuff : TAPE
51
Blackguard : OGRE
52
Buck chaser? : AROO
53
Jerome Kern's "___ Love" : IGOT
54
Cry before applause : TADA
55
Pop singer Carmen : ERIC
56
Countless : MANY

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