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New York Times, Saturday, March 9, 2002

Author:
Dana Motley
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Across : Ionian festival honoring Apollo
TotalDebutLatest
311/30/19978/16/2013
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1.5314867%
Dana Motley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {FQXZ} This is puzzle # 12 for Ms. Motley. Saturday freshness: 47%
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© 2002, The New York Times3/9/2 ( No. 19,114 )
Across
1
"Our Town" family : WEBBS
6
Words of woe : OHME
10
Blows away : WOWS
14
___ prix (at all costs): Fr. : ATOUT
15
Bullfighter Belmonte : JUAN
16
Stag : HART
17
Way out West, once : STAGECOACH
19
Indian's home : ASIA
20
One having a fling? : HURLER
21
What a belt might ensure : CHASTITY
23
Ionian festival honoring Apollo : DELIA
25
Carves : INCISES
26
Z3 or X5 : BMW
28
Holds close to one's heart? : EMBRACES
30
Breach of security : LEAK
32
Source : PROVENANCE
36
Turned a greedy eye toward : OGLED
38
Voter's choice : AYE
39
Dendrologists' study : TREES
40
Stark dose of reality : WAKEUPCALL
43
Needle : TWIT
44
Fated never to meet? : PARALLEL
46
Street caution : SLO
47
Like a pariah : SCORNED
50
Celebrities, sometimes : IDOLS
52
Like knights : MEDIEVAL
54
Rear end muscles : GLUTES
57
Cosmonaut Makarov : OLEG
58
Oh-so-superior : ABOVEITALL
60
Friends and neighbors : KITH
61
Requiem Mass word : IRAE
62
Brace, in a way : TENSE
63
League division : EAST
64
1955 Disney title character : LADY
65
Extra : ADDED
Down
1
It may get agitated : WASH
2
Words heard in the Senate : ETTU
3
Coney Island attraction : BOARDWALK
4
40-Across producer? : BUGLE
5
"The Crisis" essayist : STEELE
6
Spanish eye : OJO
7
Grp. that questioned Alger Hiss : HUAC
8
Cunning and deceptive one : MACHIAVELLI
9
Elevate : ENHANCE
10
A question of aesthetics : WHATISART
11
Refreshment site : OASIS
12
Dash off : WRITE
13
Doesn't dash off : STAYS
18
Inhibit : CRIMP
22
Hunt à la hounds : SCENT
24
Trick shout : ABRACADABRA
26
Ruin big-time : BLOW
27
Start of something big? : MEGA
29
Kind of pain : ROYAL
31
Side order? : KEEPRIGHT
33
Paper dispenser : NEWSSTAND
34
Furnish with a lining : CEIL
35
"Salus populi suprema lex ___" (Missouri's motto) : ESTO
37
An Allman brother : DUANE
41
Come out on top : PREVAIL
42
Place to perch : LEDGE
45
Nabokov novel : LOLITA
47
Fire sign : SMOKE
48
"As You Like It" daughter : CELIA
49
"The Country Girl" playwright : ODETS
51
Accompanied a madrigal, maybe : LUTED
53
1-Down unit : LOAD
55
It may follow something : ELSE
56
Runners' place : SLED
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"Oy ___!" : VEY

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

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