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New York Times, Thursday, May 9, 2002

Author:
Cathy Millhauser
Editor:
Will Shortz
68-Across : Powders
TotalDebutLatest
881/26/19925/15/2011
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211.58657442%
Cathy Allis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {VZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 69 for Ms. Allis. Thursday freshness: 43%
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© 2002, The New York Times5/9/2 ( No. 19,175 )
Across
1
Melville megalomaniac : AHAB
5
He's found in books : WALDO
10
One kind is slippery : ELM
13
Fat cat : NABOB
15
Ruhr-al city? : ESSEN
16
Sine ___ non : QUA
17
With 23-Across, story about a noisy snorer? : THELEGENDOF
19
Prefix with cellular : UNI
20
It's tossed at Spanish restaurants : ENSALADA
21
Missouri River tributary : OSAGE
23
See 17-Across : SLEEPYHOLLER
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Retainer, e.g. : FEE
29
Berne sight : AAR
30
Modern camera setting : AUTO
31
Belief of more than 5 million Americans : ISLAM
33
Pound sound : ARF
34
Fashion designer Vera : WANG
38
Chap who's a skilled lumberjack? : JOLLYGOODFELLER
42
Author Dinesen : ISAK
43
Add-on : ELL
44
Family name in "Brideshead Revisited" : RYDER
45
Make ___ dash : AMAD
47
Fig. of interest : APR
49
1970 Sportsman of the Year : ORR
50
Tendency to "lose it"? : YELLERSTREAK
55
Farm letters? : EIEIO
56
Kind of relationship : ONETOONE
60
Bustle : ADO
61
"Ain't Misbehavin'" composer misbehaving? : WALLERINSIN
64
Alternative to Bowser : REX
65
Sporting blades : EPEES
66
Maine's ___ Bay : CASCO
67
Mr., abroad : SRI
68
Powders : DUSTS
69
Store originally in Herald Square : SAKS
Down
1
A chip, maybe : ANTE
2
Nuclear fission Nobelist Otto : HAHN
3
Fortas, Vigoda, etc. : ABES
4
Gauchos' weapons : BOLAS
5
Gardening tool : WEEDER
6
"Duck soup!" : ASNAP
7
It was dropped in the 60's : LSD
8
"Jubilate ___" (hymn of praise) : DEO
9
Hoofing it : ONFOOT
10
Match : EQUAL
11
Fencing move : LUNGE
12
Gold medalist skier Hermann : MAIER
14
Ralph of "Sunrise at Campobello" : BELLAMY
18
Mythical mother of the Titans : GAEA
22
Inchmeal : SLOWLY
24
Word with bone or court : YARD
25
Piqued state : HUFF
26
Suva's land : FIJI
27
Those, to Muñoz : ESOS
28
"Pure ___," 1994 jazz album : ELLA
32
Potassium hydroxide is one : ALKALI
33
Popular ISP : AOL
35
Designer Gucci : ALDO
36
At no time, poetically : NEER
37
Boxer's warning : GRRR
39
Fire hat, hose, ax, etc. : GEAR
40
Delta 88, e.g. : OLDS
41
Wandering : ERRATIC
46
Asked "Got milk?", maybe : MEOWED
47
"Gunsmoke" star : ARNESS
48
Squint : PEER
50
Long time : YEARS
51
King ___ (bird) : EIDER
52
Pope of 1605 : LEOXI
53
For rent : TOLET
54
Hawaiian coffees : KONAS
57
Thessalian peak : OSSA
58
Cutlet? : NICK
59
Grandson of Adam : ENOS
62
Homer Simpson's Indian friend : APU
63
French article : LES

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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