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New York Times, Thursday, June 23, 2005

Author:
Courtenay Crocker III
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Former Rep. Abzug
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Courtenay Crocker III

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {QWXZ} Spans: 1 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Crocker. Thursday freshness: 95%
Jim Horne notes:

As the central Across answer MAN IN OUTER SPACE suggests, the six words at 1-, 18-, 27-, 47-, 62- and 68-Across (CHESTER, MILITIA, HANDLE, DRAFTS, SERVANT and TRIGGER) need to be preceded or followed by MAN (MANCHESTER, MILITIAMAN, MANHANDLE, DRAFTSMAN, MANSERVANT and TRIGGERMAN) to answer their clues.

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© 2005, The New York Times6/23/5 ( No. 20,316 )
Across
1
City in England : MANCHESTER
8
Motorized watercraft : JETSKIS
15
Dangerous ocean phenomenon : REDTIDE
16
Inflexible : ADAMANT
17
Maryland team : ORIOLES
18
Old musket carrier : MILITIAMAN
19
Like money in the bank : UNSPENT
20
Former Rep. Abzug : BELLA
21
Union inits. : CIO
22
HBO rival : SHO
24
___ Buena (island in San Francisco Bay) : YERBA
27
Treat roughly : MANHANDLE
31
Anatomical mouths : ORA
33
___ Valley, Calif. : SIMI
34
Capital originally called the City of the Kings : LIMAPERU
37
Go-ahead : NOD
38
Project Mercury objective (and a hint to 1-, 18-, 27-, 47-, 62- and 68-Across) : MANINOUTERSPACE
42
High dudgeon : IRE
43
Richly laden ships : ARGOSIES
44
Czech or Serb : SLAV
46
Singer Sumac : YMA
47
Architect's aide : DRAFTSMAN
51
Achier : SORER
53
Dutch city : EDE
55
Tax-deferring instrument: Abbr. : IRA
56
___ González in 2000 news : ELIAN
58
Minsk's home : BELARUS
62
Maid's counterpart : MANSERVANT
64
They may get heavy at night : EYELIDS
65
Warming : DETENTE
66
Wronged person's cry : REVENGE
67
On the schedule : SLOTTED
68
Armed gang member : TRIGGERMAN
Down
1
What catchers do : CROUCH
2
Rupture : HERNIA
3
Famous lab director : EDISON
4
Pull over : STOP
5
Floor element : TILE
6
Heaven : EDEN
7
Last word for the defense : RESTS
8
Scouting blowouts : JAMBOREES
9
One of the housewives on "Desperate Housewives" : EDIE
10
Add up : TALLY
11
Prepares to be shot, maybe : SMILES
12
Women's tennis star Srebotnik : KATARINA
13
Magician's name ending : INI
14
Place to buy tkts. : STA
23
Critter with a sticky tongue : HOPTOAD
25
College V.I.P. : BMOC
26
Adjutant : AIDE
28
551, once : DLI
29
Filmmaker Wertmuller : LINA
30
Georgia university : EMORY
32
Ban alternative : ARRID
35
Added value to : AUGMENTED
36
Addict : USER
38
Hit's alternative : MISS
39
Name on "Alice's Restaurant" : ARLO
40
Closer by : NEARERTO
41
Unpaid TV ad: Abbr. : PSA
45
Antler covering : VELVET
48
Step in ceramic making : FIRING
49
Plod : TRUDGE
50
Smart one : SASSER
52
Laughing : RIANT
54
Roeper's TV partner : EBERT
57
Help make a pot : ANTE
59
Ogler : EYER
60
Strauss of jeans fame : LEVI
61
"Shake ___!" : ALEG
62
60's campus grp. : SDS
63
It was "boil'd in broo'," in the ballad "Lord Randal" : EEL

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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