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New York Times, Saturday, May 3, 2003

Author:
John Scott Marrone
Editor:
Will Shortz
65-Across : Sarcastic question after a self-induced disaster
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John Scott Marrone

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 44 Missing: {JKQXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Marrone. Saturday freshness: 1%
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© 2003, The New York Times5/3/3 ( No. 19,534 )
Across
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Job, so to speak : HEIST
6
Part of a fin. portfolio : CDS
9
Really awful, in rap slang : ILLIN
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Prefix with scope : ORTHO
15
Outcry : HUE
16
Simple : NAIVE
17
Prepares potatoes in a way : ESCALLOPS
19
Like some jackets : TWEED
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Asteroid that Galileo flew by closely in 1993 : IDA
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Muffler : MUTE
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Period between blue moons : AGES
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Grant source: Abbr. : NEA
33
Cricket position behind the wicketkeeper : SLIP
35
Relative of "Reverend" : SRI
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Overcharge, slangily : STING
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Body hugger : BRA
40
Stock stat : HIGH
42
Blue mountain ___ (goldenrod) : TEA
43
Hinds : DOES
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49
Don Juan, e.g. : ROUE
50
Communication problem : LAG
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"The Maids" playwright : GENET
58
Frozen : GLACIATED
60
What some British poetry has : METRE
61
Series of periods : EON
62
Wrap : STOLE
63
Lock : TRESS
64
Gas type: Abbr. : REG
65
Sarcastic question after a self-induced disaster : HAPPY
Down
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Cultivate : HOE
2
"Step the meek fowls where ___ they ranged": Emerson : ERST
3
Target for nails? : ITCH
4
Arab princes : SHARIFS
5
Spanish province or its capital : TOLEDO
6
Bok ___ : CHOY
7
Copy : DUPE
8
Opener? : SESAME
9
Altogether : INTOTO
10
Frontierlike : LAWLESS
11
Wasn't straight : LIED
12
"Funny Way of Laughin'" singer, 1962 : IVES
13
"Old Uncle" in a Stephen Foster song : NED
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Masters : LEARNS
21
Visionary 1921 play : RUR
24
Spate : RASH
25
Language branch containing Hungarian : UGRIC
26
Sound at 44-Across, maybe : NEIGH
27
Lunar calendar event : TET
28
Its currency is the gourde : HAITI
29
Turning point? : ELBOW
30
Lola, in "Damn Yankees" : SIREN
34
Bridge option : PASS
37
First word of Dante's "Inferno" : NEL
38
From Paris, say : GALLIC
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Sadists : HURTERS
43
Beliefs : DOGMATA
45
Circuits : ROUTES
46
Rotter : CUR
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Gardening tool : HEDGER
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Breakfast item : DANISH
51
One who might issue a warning : SEER
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Payment at a table : ANTE
53
Softener : ALOE
54
Masculine side : YANG
55
Riding : ATOP
56
Outcry : YELP
57
Zulu, in the military: Abbr. : GMT
59
"Emerald Point N.A.S." actress : DEY

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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