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New York Times, Friday, May 14, 2004

Author:
Robert H. Wolfe
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Across : Elemental form
TotalDebutLatest
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Robert H. Wolfe

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {BJKX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 62 for Mr. Wolfe. Friday freshness: 47%
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© 2004, The New York Times5/14/4 ( No. 19,911 )
Across
1
Delivery aid : ZIPCODE
8
Bondage : CHAINS
14
Intimate : ALLUDETO
16
Query to a cow : HOWNOW
17
Comes back, in a way : FLARESUP
18
Bind : ENLACE
19
Kind of steak : TUNA
20
Actress Pfeiffer : DEDEE
22
That vessel : SHE
23
Elemental form : ISOTOPE
26
Wild Bill Donovan's org. : OSS
27
Old D.C. team member : NAT
28
Cointrin International Airport locale : GENEVA
29
Foam ingredient : URETHANE
31
See 37-Down : IRONS
33
Work, physically : ERGS
34
Not on this side : ACROSSTHESTREET
40
Not go near : SHUN
41
Part for the plate : TITHE
42
Duck : SIDESTEP
45
Ruling units : INCHES
50
Second person : EVE
51
Go off : ERR
52
Without anyone knowing : ONTHEQT
53
One with sharp teeth : SAW
54
Surface anew : RESOD
56
Liquido vital : AGUA
57
Pig : SLOVEN
59
Bathroom bar option : DIALSOAP
62
Something done while running around : ERRAND
63
Mark : ANNOTATE
64
SuperDome site : SYDNEY
65
Eggs, e.g. : GAMETES
Down
1
Full-figured : ZAFTIG
2
Be cruel to : ILLUSE
3
Anticipate : PLANON
4
Run, as an exhibition : CURATE
5
Dedicated lines : ODE
6
Paris's Pont ___ Arts : DES
7
Technique improver : ETUDE
8
Last word before someone is shot : CHEESE
9
"I kid you not!" : HONEST
10
Little puncher : AWL
11
Entangled : INASNARE
12
Uninteresting progress report : NOCHANGE
13
Least dry : SWEETEST
15
"And when I ___ my lips ...": Shak. : OPE
21
Breed of sheep named for an English county : DORSET
24
21-Down's genus : OVIS
25
3, 4 and 5, but rarely 6 : PARS
29
Not in : UNHIP
30
Part of O.H.M.S. : HER
32
Bewhiskered fauna : OTTERS
34
Charges : ASSESSES
35
Dead thing, according to some : CHIVALRY
36
Bit of indelicacy : RUDEWORD
37
With 31-Across, some clubs : ONE
38
Kicker's object : SHIN
39
You might have a stake in it : TENT
43
Collected : SERENE
44
In : TRENDY
46
Free of stains : CHASTE
47
Billy : HEGOAT
48
Draw parallels : EQUATE
49
Smallest bone in the human body : STAPES
52
Rx abuse : ODING
55
Harem room : ODA
58
It often has sliding doors : VAN
60
Suffix with Shakespeare : ANA
61
Sellers's foil in "Pink Panther" films : LOM

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

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