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New York Times, Tuesday, June 7, 2005

Author:
Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Across : College graduate's goal
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
2611/24/20024/1/201022
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
60685001
RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.6013440%
Lee Glickstein
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 39 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Glickstein. This is puzzle # 142 for Ms. Salomon. Tuesday freshness: 59%
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© 2005, The New York Times6/7/5 ( No. 20,300 )
Across
1
Wet snowball sound : SPLAT
6
Radio choice : AMFM
10
Hair goops : GELS
14
___-Roman wrestling : GRECO
15
1971 Cy Young Award winner ___ Blue : VIDA
16
Not written : ORAL
17
Stuffed animals : TEDDYBEARS
19
Festive : GALA
20
Business V.I.P. : CEO
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Jeer : HOOTAT
23
Like meat thrown to a lion : RAW
26
Stuffed headrests : DOWNPILLOWS
30
Pinza of "South Pacific" : EZIO
32
Went yachting : BOATED
33
Stuffed appetizers : MUSHROOMS
35
Contents of a big bowl : PUNCH
40
"Am not!" response : ARETOO
41
Most of Libya : SAHARA
42
Cuban bills : PESOS
43
Stuffed mailers : ENVELOPES
46
College graduate's goal : CAREER
48
Furnace's output : HEAT
49
Stuffed polling receptacles : BALLOTBOXES
54
Sun spot? : SKY
55
Momentarily : INASEC
56
Teacher's grp. : NEA
58
Lemon-lime malt brand : ZIMA
59
Stuffed diners : OVEREATERS
66
Coup d'___ : ETAT
67
With no help : SOLO
68
Dewey, to Truman : LOSER
69
Cold war news service : TASS
70
Either half of Gemini : TWIN
71
Community workout spots, for short : YMCAS
Down
1
Police dept. rank : SGT
2
Relative of ante- : PRE
3
Headed : LED
4
Kind of converter : ACDC
5
Trifled (with) : TOYED
6
Greeting on the Appian Way : AVE
7
"Mamma ___!" : MIA
8
T.V.A. promoter : FDR
9
Number 5 iron : MASHIE
10
"Dead Souls" novelist Nikolai : GOGOL
11
Poet's Muse : ERATO
12
Early Steven Bochco series : LALAW
13
Blind parts : SLATS
18
Miscue : BOOBOO
22
Buddy from way back : OLDPAL
23
Plot again : REMAP
24
Shade of blue : AZURE
25
Smartens (up) : WISES
27
Try to win : WOO
28
60's war zone, briefly : NAM
29
Scoreboard fig. : PTS
31
"___ be in England" : OHTO
34
Pistol, slangily : ROSCOE
36
"Now we're in for it!" : UHOH
37
Puppy pickup places : NAPES
38
Haunted house sound : CREAK
39
Like many a retreat : HASTY
41
Calm : SERENE
43
Tarzan creator's monogram : ERB
44
Prefix with natal : NEO
45
Irk : VEX
47
Even less than wholesale : ATCOST
49
"Carmen" composer : BIZET
50
Author Loos : ANITA
51
Holy Tibetans : LAMAS
52
Exams before some postgrad. studies : LSATS
53
Serta alternative : SEALY
57
Positron's place : ATOM
60
Solemn pledge : VOW
61
Yalie : ELI
62
1980's White House nickname : RON
63
Top left PC key : ESC
64
Stephen of "Still Crazy" : REA
65
Soon-to-be-alumni: Abbr. : SRS

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

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