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New York Times, Thursday, March 6, 2003

Author:
Cathy Millhauser
Editor:
Will Shortz
27-Across : Director's cry
TotalDebutLatest
881/26/19925/15/2011
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RebusCircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
211.58657442%
Cathy Allis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 75 for Ms. Allis. Thursday freshness: 36%
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© 2003, The New York Times3/6/3 ( No. 19,476 )
Across
1
Chickens : WIMPS
6
Subject for Fermi : ATOM
10
Chinese image in a shrine : JOSS
14
Kind of box : IDIOT
15
Mother of Castor and Pollux : LEDA
16
Dr. Dre contemporary : ICET
17
Words from young George Washington? : SORRYIAXED
19
Collapsed : GAVE
20
Sit (down) : PLOP
21
Petrol purchase : LITRE
22
Exultation : GLEE
23
Some tournaments : OPENS
25
Prince Edward, e.g. : ISLAND
27
Director's cry : ACTION
30
Penn State branch site : ERIE
31
What might have a person spinning? : WHISKEYFLAX
34
"Doctor Who" airer : BBC
37
Pop singer Mann : AIMEE
38
Sound heard during a massage : AAH
39
"Vive ___!" : LEROI
41
Nitrous oxide, e.g. : GAS
42
Like a stressful job? : MULTITAXING
45
Through : DONE
46
Latke ingredients : ONIONS
47
Charmingly odd : QUAINT
50
Precept : TENET
52
Press : URGE
53
From the beginning: Lat. : ABOVO
55
In-line skating gear : PADS
59
"Not returnable" : ASIS
60
Outlaw's limit? : MAXOFZORRO
62
Possible result of bankruptcy : SALE
63
The Phantom of the Opera : ERIK
64
Something to go under : ALIAS
65
Obedience school command : HEEL
66
Writer Isak Dinesen, e.g. : DANE
67
Costa del Sol feature : PLAYA
Down
1
Bit of a cloud : WISP
2
"American ___" : IDOL
3
Catalan painter Joan : MIRO
4
Victim of a drift net : PORPOISE
5
Farm pen : STY
6
French actor Delon : ALAIN
7
Libretti : TEXTS
8
River of Brandenburg : ODER
9
Dessert wine : MADEIRA
10
Shake a bit : JIGGLE
11
Seat of Marion County, Fla. : OCALA
12
Evening hour : SEVEN
13
Mount : STEED
18
Graff of "Mr. Belvedere" : ILENE
24
Japanese game figures : POKEMON
26
Wide, in a way : SIXLANE
27
Like gossiping tongues : AWAG
28
Herbal "pet" : CHIA
29
Allen and Conway : TIMS
30
For grades K through 12 : ELHI
32
Lock maker : YALE
33
Unnecessary part : FAT
34
Esprit : BRIO
35
Beethoven's birthplace : BONN
36
Weeds : CIGS
40
Voters' survey : EXITPOLL
43
Wild : UNTAMED
44
Like a ___ bricks : TONOF
45
Engine type : DIESEL
47
Suppress : QUASH
48
Star bears : URSAE
49
Catlike : AGILE
50
Snake venom, e.g. : TOXIN
51
Summon mentally : EVOKE
54
Theda of silents : BARA
56
Andrea Bocelli piece : ARIA
57
Sideless wagon : DRAY
58
1998 N.L. M.V.P. : SOSA
61
Stun : ZAP

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4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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