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New York Times, Wednesday, March 1, 2000

Author:
M. Francis Vuolo
Editor:
Will Shortz
31-Across : Birth control device
TotalDebutLatest
147/8/19994/15/2009
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0334220
RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.597839%
Michael Vuolo

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Vuolo. Wednesday freshness: 63%
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© 2000, The New York Times3/1/0 ( No. 18,376 )
Across
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It's just one of those things : THAT
5
"Aw, shucks" expressions : GRINS
10
More : ELSE
14
Jealous wife in Greek myth : HERA
15
Slackened : EASED
16
A portion : SOME
17
"The moan of doves in immemorial ___": Tennyson : ELMS
18
Campbell of "Martin" : TISHA
19
Winter Palace ruler : TSAR
20
Ready to swoon : WEAKINTHEKNEES
23
"Go on..." : AND
24
Clan emblem : TOTEM
25
Straight start? : ORTHO
27
Orbital periods : YEARS
29
Actor McKellen : IAN
31
Birth control device : IUD
32
C.P.R. administrator : EMT
34
It ends in Mecca : HADJ
35
Brit. legislators : MPS
36
Good-looking : EASYONTHEEYES
40
Insulation ingredient, for short : PVC
41
Cooperstown nickname : TRIS
42
Wool source : EWE
43
Bolo, for one : TIE
44
Michael Jordan's alma mater, in brief : UNC
45
Have it ___ : INFOR
49
Place for rings : ALTAR
51
Gives the gate : OUSTS
55
Genetic letters : RNA
56
Seedy-looking : DOWNATTHEHEELS
59
___ fide : BONA
60
Baptism and bris : RITES
61
L.A. gang member : CRIP
62
Need a bath badly : REEK
63
Awaited a dubbing : KNELT
64
Surrealist Magritte : RENE
65
Charger, to a Cockney : ORSE
66
Lowly ones : SERFS
67
Took habitually : USED
Down
1
Tao, literally : THEWAY
2
Curtis of hair care : HELENE
3
Loser of 1588 : ARMADA
4
What to do? : TASK
5
"I ___ kick..." : GETNO
6
Grammy winner Bonnie : RAITT
7
Joe Jackson's "___ Really Going Out With Him?" : ISSHE
8
Book after Ezra : NEHEMIAH
9
Minn. neighbor : SDAK
10
Fruity-smelling compound : ESTER
11
Experience a delay : LOSETIME
12
They attract rubberneckers : SMASHUPS
13
Musket attachment : EER
21
"C'mon, I wanna try!" : ITSMYTURN
22
Gentile : NONJEWISH
26
Some E.R. cases : ODS
28
___ judicata : RES
30
"Song of the South" song syllables : ADEE
33
Unable to decide : TORN
34
Shaker ___, O. : HTS
36
Satanic sort : EVILDOER
37
Colorless solvents : ACETONES
38
Addictive stuff : NICOTINE
39
Japanese capital : YEN
40
School grp. : PTA
46
Strasbourg siblings : FRERES
47
Like lots of shopping now : ONLINE
48
Sang like Satchmo : RASPED
50
Not out : AWAKE
52
Complete : UTTER
53
Cliff projection : SHELF
54
They may come in batteries : TESTS
57
Torah holders : ARKS
58
L'eggs shade : ECRU
59
Term of address in the 'hood : BRO

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

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