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New York Times, Friday, March 29, 2002

Author:
Kevin Hagen
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Across : Covered (in)
TotalDebutLatest
43/29/20024/30/2004
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.482766%
Kevin Hagen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJQVXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Hagen. Friday freshness: 41%
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© 2002, The New York Times3/29/2 ( No. 19,134 )
Across
1
"The Road Ahead" author : BILLGATES
10
Covered (in) : AWASH
15
Unable to escape : INTOODEEP
16
Lily in a wedding bouquet : CALLA
17
Like a vaudevillian villain : DASTARDLY
18
Influence : CLOUT
19
Project against ICBM's : SDI
20
"I swear ..." : SOHELPME
22
Explorer's org. : BSA
25
Thinking person's conclusion? : IAM
27
Agrees, in a way : NODS
28
It carried Galileo into space : ATLANTIS
31
Preceders of gimels : BETHS
34
Some court workers : BALLGIRLS
36
It's all in your mind : DREAM
38
First martyr, according to Matthew : ABEL
39
Baby, at times : COOER
41
"Ziegfeld Follies" costume designer : ERTE
42
Carried on : RAGED
44
Saturated with : STEEPEDIN
46
Land in Rome : TERRA
48
Race line-up : STARTERS
49
Kind of warfare : GANG
51
Gray piece : ODE
52
He played Cardinal Richelieu in "The Musketeer" : REA
53
Some pointless exercises : MAKEWORK
57
Sacramental user of peyote : UTE
59
Stag : ALONE
60
Customs job : INSPECTOR
65
St. ___ Shores, Mich. : CLAIR
66
Absent : NOTONHAND
67
Gets together, informally : SYNCS
68
Stars : STANDOUTS
Down
1
Raise one's hand, perhaps : BID
2
___ mess : INA
3
Mil. figures : LTS
4
Scores : LOTS
5
Prodding : GOADING
6
Montenegro's locale : ADRIATIC
7
Poet Hughes : TED
8
Unagi and anago, at a sushi bar : EELS
9
Watch slyly : SPYON
10
Gave in : ACCEDED
11
Where bears may be found : WALLSTREET
12
Crooked : ALOP
13
Urban renewal target : SLUM
14
No fond feeling : HATE
21
Nail preceder : HOB
22
Storybook elephant : BABAR
23
"___ Mater" (hymn) : STABAT
24
Contend : ALLEGE
26
Some Surrealist works : MIROS
29
Causing a rash reaction? : ALLERGENIC
30
Fruit-filled machines? : SLOTS
32
Cowboy, for one : HERDER
33
"The Praise of Folly," e.g. : SATIRE
35
Handle : SEETO
37
Group of brains : MENSA
40
Study : READUPON
43
Long johns, e.g. : DRAWERS
45
Simulated : PRETEND
47
Year in Rio : ANO
50
Smug looks, sometimes : GRINS
53
Apple production : MACS
54
Supporter : ALLY
55
Zen master's question : KOAN
56
Board defect : KNOT
58
Say again : ECHO
61
Stop along the line: Abbr. : STA
62
Certain cross : TAU
63
Neighbor of N.Y. : ONT
64
Cartography lines: Abbr. : RDS

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4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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