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New York Times, Saturday, May 21, 2005

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
44-Across : "___ silly ..."
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 35 Missing: {FJQ} This is puzzle # 175 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 20%
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N
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O
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C
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U
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P
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X
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D
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B
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K
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M
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© 2005, The New York Times5/21/5 ( No. 20,283 )
Across
1
Worthless : NOCOUNT
8
Spears, e.g. : POPSTAR
15
It's now less than half its 1960 size : ARALSEA
16
Acting : ONSTAGE
17
Search : PATDOWN
18
Academic : LEARNED
19
1974 kidnap grp. : SLA
20
Hard to get to : STOIC
22
Depression-era figure : OKIE
23
Send, in a way : TELEX
26
Marine park attraction : ORCA
27
Withhold : DENY
28
Split : EXITED
30
Cousin of atmo- : AER
31
Part of a box : EDGE
32
Cheated : RANAROUND
34
Some services : MASSES
35
Come by : OBTAIN
41
Candy since 1925 : MRGOODBAR
44
"___ silly ..." : ASKA
48
Onetime popular T-shirt icon : MAO
49
Epitome of gentleness : BREEZE
50
Rumble weapon : SHIV
51
Sterile : ARID
53
1973 Best Supporting Actress : ONEAL
54
Table setting? : MESA
55
New Hampshire's state flower : LILAC
57
F.D.R. initiative : NRA
58
What a celibate will do : ABSTAIN
60
Religious passage : NARTHEX
63
Steel work : ROMANCE
64
Gonzaga University site : SPOKANE
65
Silly tricks : APERIES
66
Secure, as online financial transmissions : ENCODED
Down
1
Modern music source : NAPSTER
2
Part of a third degree, maybe : ORALEXAM
3
Resort island with a noted seal colony : CATALINA
4
Familiar : OLD
5
Military supporter, for short : USO
6
Latest : NEWS
7
Too much, in music : TANTO
8
Bomb squad member : POLICEDOG
9
Like some garages : ONECAR
10
Program interrupter, briefly : PSA
11
Took serious steps : STRODE
12
Bombed : TANKED
13
Getting on : AGEING
14
Photographer's concern : REDEYE
21
Yves Saint Laurent's birthplace : ORAN
24
Touchdown data : ETAS
25
Some voters : XERS
29
Forest parent : DOE
33
Trainees at Parris Island, S.C. : USMARINES
36
Short cut : BOB
37
Snapper rival : TORO
38
Former British colony in Arabia : ADEN
39
Victim's holler : IBEENHAD
40
Early Christian convert : NAZARENE
42
Muddy : ROIL
43
Chilling, so to speak : RELAXED
44
Capital east of Khartoum : ASMARA
45
1984 Cyndi Lauper hit : SHEBOP
46
Valentine candy message : KISSME
47
Personification : AVATAR
48
Bad feeling : MALICE
52
Segment from "The Nutcracker" : DANSE
56
One with many hands, informally : CAPN
59
Gracklelike bird : ANI
61
1990's sitcom that for one full season was aired live : ROC
62
Ref's call : TKO

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

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