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New York Times, Wednesday, June 9, 2004

Author:
Seth A. Abel
Editor:
Will Shortz
29-Across : Little swabs
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Seth A. Abel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {YZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Abel. Wednesday freshness: 17%
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© 2004, The New York Times6/9/4 ( No. 19,937 )
Across
1
Nonplussed : ATSEA
6
Winter hookup : PLOW
10
Nudges : JOGS
14
15-Across's instrument : SITAR
15
___ Shankar : RAVI
16
View from Toledo : ERIE
17
Show of smugness : SMIRK
18
Thunderclouds, perhaps : OMEN
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Put away : SAVE
20
Astounded by how much weight you've gained? : FLABBERGASTED
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Beach lotion letters : SPF
25
Born in France : NEE
26
Dirty looks : LEERS
27
"Really!" : HONEST
29
Little swabs : QTIPS
32
Actress Verdugo : ELENA
33
"___ giorno!" : BUON
34
From ___ Z : ATO
37
Deprived of fast food chains? : DISENFRANCHISED
41
"Help!" : SOS
42
Just-for-fun activity : LARK
43
Even if, briefly : ALTHO
44
Source : FOUNT
46
One offering securities : ISSUER
47
Pageant wear : TIARA
50
Geologist's time : ERA
51
___ Plaines, Ill. : DES
52
Tireless in pursuit of weight control? : INDEFATIGABLE
57
Hardly chivalrous : RUDE
58
Pedestrian sign : XING
59
Em and Polly : AUNTS
62
Son of Aphrodite : EROS
63
Lui's opposite : ELLE
64
"Ciao!" : LATER
65
Bad impression? : DENT
66
Practically devoid of customers : DEAD
67
Cravings of a sort : LUSTS
Down
1
Nincompoop : ASS
2
Tiny ___ : TIM
3
Stretching may relieve it : STIFFNESS
4
Sandwich man? : EARL
5
Bill Clinton, e.g. : ARKANSAN
6
Exploratory spacecraft : PROBE
7
Poor, as excuses go : LAME
8
Kaput : OVER
9
Birds take this : WING
10
James and Jackson : JESSES
11
Use a soapbox : ORATE
12
Unselfish sort : GIVER
13
Garden bagful : SEEDS
21
Get into a pool : BET
22
High peak : ALP
23
Peels off : SHEDS
24
Salk's conquest : POLIO
28
Compass heading : ENE
29
Berries buy, at a supermarket : QUART
30
Honky-___ : TONK
31
Ltd., in the U.S. : INC
33
Food for regular folks? : BRAN
34
4.0 earners : ASTUDENTS
35
[titter] : TEHEE
36
Signs of spoilage : ODORS
38
Kind of shot : FLU
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Lives it up : HASABALL
40
They, in Marseille : ILS
44
Most liberal : FREEST
45
Loutish sort : OAF
46
Roth ___ : IRA
47
Wiped out : TIRED
48
Accustom : INURE
49
Building wing : ADDON
50
Urged, with "on" : EGGED
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Sent packing : AXED
54
Mosaic piece : TILE
55
"To Live and Die ___" : INLA
56
Island feast : LUAU
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___ Offensive : TET
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Sophs. in two years : SRS

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

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