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New York Times, Friday, June 28, 2002

Author:
Charles E. Gersch
Editor:
Will Shortz
63-Across : Farewells
TotalDebutLatest
485/10/19519/29/2010
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Charles E. Gersch

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 27 Missing: {JQVWX} This is puzzle # 44 for Mr. Gersch. Friday freshness: 55%
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© 2002, The New York Times6/28/2 ( No. 19,225 )
Across
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Price lines? : BARCODES
9
Sgt. O'Rourke's command, on TV : FTROOP
15
Whitman poem opener : OCAPTAIN
16
"Juarez" Oscar nominee Brian : AHERNE
17
Manhattan Project research center : OAKRIDGE
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Where some art films premiere : CANNES
19
Year in Gregory I's papacy : DCI
20
Like a pothook : SSHAPED
22
Felicitous : APT
23
Web page feature : LINK
25
They stop fights : TKOS
26
18-Across confidante : AMIE
27
Like a good looker : EAGLEEYED
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Run like ___ : ADEER
31
Final: Abbr. : ULT
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Clearing away : RIDDANCE
34
School statistic : TUITION
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Taken in : ADOPTED
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Settings for some victory dances : ENDZONES
41
Exhibited things : ART
42
Highway hazard : SLEET
43
Part of it is French : POLYNESIA
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Afternoon affairs : TEAS
49
Russian auto make : LADA
50
Let out : RENT
51
"Old pal" of song : SAL
52
Eliza Doolittle's mythical counterpart : GALATEA
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Janeiro starts it : ANO
56
Some dictionary entries : IDIOMS
58
Ashtray, vis-à-vis trash : PIGLATIN
60
Final taker, e.g. : TESTEE
61
Private : ONEONONE
62
Dumas's Dantès : EDMOND
63
Farewells : PARTINGS
Down
1
Graft : BOODLE
2
Savanna shrub : ACACIA
3
Groundskeeper's work : RAKING
4
Red Cross training, for short : CPR
5
Innovator in lifts : OTIS
6
Some stay at home : DADS
7
Highest number in keno : EIGHTY
8
High-top : SNEAKER
9
Some people are good at remembering them : FACES
10
Sen. Cochran of Mississippi : THAD
11
TV Chihuahua : REN
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It serves no useful purpose : ORNAMENT
13
Like some bathing suits : ONEPIECE
14
Bugged : PESTERED
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Orations' stations : PODIA
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Fumblers : KLUTZES
26
Electrical gizmo : ADAPTER
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"Four Quartets" poet : ELIOT
29
Town on the Thames : ETON
30
Festoon : ADORN
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When to launch an invasion : DDAY
34
Bikini, once : TESTSITE
35
Pump standard : UNLEADED
36
Philosophical theory : IDEALISM
37
Where to spend rupees : NEPAL
40
Crush, say : SODAPOP
44
She may live in a barrio : LATINA
45
"Miracle on 34th Street" director : SEATON
46
One of nine : INNING
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Compensates : ATONES
49
Beamed intensely : LASED
52
Some gangbusters : GMEN
53
Hungarian spa city : EGER
54
Buckets : ALOT
57
Onetime dweller along the Platte : OTO
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Groove-billed ___ : ANI

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

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