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New York Times, Thursday, April 25, 2002

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Will Shortz
59-Across : Massenet heroine
TotalDebutLatest
856/30/19814/25/2002
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
04202127121
RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
11.551076740%
Lois Sidway

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 85 for Ms. Sidway. Thursday freshness: 40%
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© 2002, The New York Times4/25/2 ( No. 19,161 )
Across
1
Binge : TOOT
5
Senior moment? : PROM
9
Urban abodes, for short : YMCAS
14
Meteorological effect : HALO
15
Kachina doll makers : HOPI
16
Marveled aloud : OOHED
17
Plugging away : ATIT
18
Be against : ABUT
19
Aerosol targets : ODORS
20
Advice from Ann Landers, part 1 : NEVERTESTTHE
23
Krispy ___ doughnuts : KREME
24
Supporting posts : SHORING
28
It might precede "pfft" : SSS
29
60's do : AFRO
33
Singer Wahlberg of NKOTB : DONNIE
34
Cruise lines? : SCRIPT
36
Constituent of biotite : MICA
37
Advice, part 2 : DEPTHOFTHEWATER
42
What Horton heard : AWHO
43
Connects (with) : TIESIN
44
1982 war zone : BEIRUT
47
"Fargo" director Joel : COEN
48
Slip a ___ : COG
51
Former name in late-night talk : ARSENIO
53
Chili additive : CARNE
55
End of the advice : WITHBOTHFEET
59
Massenet heroine : THAIS
62
See 9-Down : WAVE
63
The best : TOPS
64
Literary middle name : WALDO
65
City near Utah Lake : OREM
66
Writer Wiesel : ELIE
67
Sen. Specter : ARLEN
68
Where Venus Flytrap worked, on an old sitcom : WKRP
69
Charter : RENT
Down
1
"Much obliged!" : THANKS
2
Saturday matinees of yesteryear : OATERS
3
Antipasto tidbits : OLIVES
4
Tribal figure : TOTEM
5
Terrific, in slang : PHAT
6
Boxer's attire : ROBE
7
Beethoven's Ninth, e.g. : OPUS
8
Paws : MITTS
9
Cry sometimes accompanied by a 62-Across : YOOHOO
10
No Neanderthal, he : MODERNMAN
11
Funny Margaret : CHO
12
___ Lingus : AER
13
Antiwar grp. : SDS
21
"Stick 'em up!" : REACH
22
Advanced religious deg. : THD
25
F. Murray Abraham feature: Abbr. : INIT
26
"Good going!" : NICE
27
Snorkel, fins, etc. : GEAR
30
Not to : FRO
31
Split : RIFT
32
Some nerve : OPTIC
34
Like some clearances : STOREWIDE
35
Lt. Kojak : THEO
37
"The Aba ___ Honeymoon" : DABA
38
Basin item : EWER
39
Letters from Crete : PHIS
40
Legal conclusion? : ESE
41
Hoisting device : WINCH
45
Choirs may sing in it : UNISON
46
Small songbird : TIT
48
Spicy cuisine : CREOLE
49
What might prevent a strike? : ONEPIN
50
Prepare (for) : GETSET
52
"Cool, man!" : OHWOW
54
In imitation of : AFTER
56
Burglar's worry, maybe : BARK
57
___ there : OVER
58
Many a sub : TEMP
59
Bygone carrier : TWA
60
Part of a guffaw : HAR
61
Entirely : ALL

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

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