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New York Times, Thursday, May 30, 2002

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
34-Across : Markers
TotalDebutLatest
1309/5/198911/16/2024
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RebusCircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
941.595291125%
Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 This is puzzle # 86 for Mr. Gordon. Thursday freshness: 83%
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D
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P
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C
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Z
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NC
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P
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A
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© 2002, The New York Times5/30/2 ( No. 19,196 )
Across
1
Pickpocket, in slang : DIP
4
Monokini's lack : BRA
7
Open to everyone : PUBLIC
13
When expected : ONCUE
15
Western Hemisphere org. : OAS
16
Do some film editing : SPLICE
17
S.S. Guppy commander : CAPNCRUNCH
19
Stupefied : TRANCED
20
Workday interrupters : LUNCHES
22
"More!" : ENCORE
23
Put down in writing? : PAN
26
Cancer follower : LEO
27
Menotti character : AMAHL
29
Eats into : ERODES
31
"It's a Wonderful Life" angel : CLARENCE
33
Bad-tasting : RANCID
34
Markers : CHITS
35
Business card abbr. : EXT
37
Black : EBON
38
Macbeth, for one : THANE
39
Aware of : ONTO
40
Shade of gray : ZINC
41
Cavort : PRANCE
42
Not stick out : FITIN
43
Money : CURRENCY
45
It's golden : SILENCE
46
Brooklyn Dodgers great : REESE
47
Where the buoys are : SEA
48
Football positions: Abbr. : RTS
49
Corinthian alternative : DORIC
51
Quiescence : LATENCY
54
Silk-screening need : STENCIL
56
Like the film "Henry & June" (and this puzzle) : RATEDNC17
60
Hurt with a blow : CONCUSS
61
Foot part : INCH
62
Swedish auto : SAAB
63
Get mad : SEERED
64
Singer Kiki : DEE
65
HBO rival : AMC
Down
1
Sawbones : DOC
2
One conquered by the conquistadors : INCA
3
Young boxer : PUP
4
Ejects : BOUNCES
5
Gaucho's workplace : RANCHO
6
New York's ___ Stadium : ASHE
7
L.A. setting : PST
8
Raises : UPREARS
9
One of TV's "Golden Girls" : BLANCHE
10
Home to the Juilliard School : LINCOLNCENTER
11
"Happy Birthday" writer : ICER
12
Give up : CEDE
14
Letter abbr. : ENCL
18
Like a legal pad : RULED
21
Intravenous solution : SALINE
23
Former U.N. chief Javier ___ de Cuéllar : PEREZ
24
Language from which "hashish" comes : ARABIC
25
Disagreement : NONCONCURRENCE
28
Pal, in Perth : MATE
30
Racket : DIN
31
Uncertain : CHANCY
32
No longer around : EXTINCT
34
One end of a nave : CHANCEL
36
Subdues, with "down" : TONES
38
Half of seis : TRES
39
Squirt can contents : OIL
41
Exact : PRECISE
42
Intended : FIANCE
44
Acquire again : REINCUR
45
Boil : SEETHE
47
Batting coach's concern : STANCE
49
Mil. medals : DSCS
50
Siouan speaker : OTOE
52
Unimaginative : ARID
53
N.F.L. stat: Abbr. : YDS
55
Flashback causer : LSD
57
Sports org. : NCAA
58
When "S.N.L." ends : 1AM
59
Year that Dionysius of Halicarnassus is believed to have died : 7BC

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

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