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New York Times, Thursday, July 8, 2004

Author:
Scot Ober
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Start of a quip
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Scot Ober

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {QX} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Ober. Thursday freshness: 24%
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© 2004, The New York Times7/8/4 ( No. 19,966 )
Across
1
"You wish!" : ASIF
5
Win every game : SWEEP
10
The gamut : ATOZ
14
A Turner : LANA
15
Babe Ruth's was retired : THREE
16
Actress Anderson : LONI
17
Earthy deposit : MARL
18
Arabian Sea sight : OILER
19
Capone's nemeses : TMEN
20
Start of a quip : ABICYCLE
22
Like most sonnets : IAMBIC
24
Thousand ___, Calif. : OAKS
25
Home of Pottawattamie County : IOWA
26
Quip, part 2 : CANTSTANDONITS
32
William ___, attorney general under Bush the elder : BARR
33
Plug away : TOIL
34
Swell place? : SEA
35
Wild revelry : ORGY
36
"Bye Bye Bye" band : NSYNC
38
Bank holding : LIEN
39
"The Matrix" role : NEO
40
He broke with Stalin in 1948 : TITO
41
20 providers : ATMS
42
Quip, part 3 : OWNBECAUSEITIS
47
Gross : ICKY
48
When Hamlet dies : ACTV
49
Smallest of the U.S. Virgin Islands : STJOHN
52
End of the quip : TWOTIRED
56
Faucet brand : MOEN
57
Samuel Gompers's org., informally : AFOFL
59
Presidential ___ : AIDE
60
Tangelo trademark : UGLI
61
Madame Tussaud : MARIE
62
All alternative : NONE
63
Rash treatment : TALC
64
Switches around : EDITS
65
Flag feature : STAR
Down
1
Michigan's ___ College : ALMA
2
Auto import : SAAB
3
Crucifix inscription : INRI
4
Hawking : FALCONRY
5
See 40-Down : STOCKS
6
During the time that : WHILST
7
Peer of Agatha : ERLE
8
Letters on some pumps : EEE
9
Like a planetary orbit : PERIODIC
10
"The Long Goodbye" director, 1973 : ALTMAN
11
Dead center? : TOMB
12
R.E.M.'s "The ___ Love" : ONEI
13
Much of a penny : ZINC
21
China's Sun ___-sen : YAT
23
Gone wrong? : AWOL
25
Barge ___ : INON
26
Seven-time A.L. batting champ : CAREW
27
Vacuum tube filler : ARGON
28
"Look ___!" : ATYOU
29
Question in Matthew : ISITI
30
Swarms : TEEMS
31
Without : SANS
32
"With or Without You" singer : BONO
36
Handle : NICKNAME
37
Dog command : STAY
38
Some dwellers on the Baltic : LATVIANS
40
With 5-Down, some volatile investments : TECH
43
Not entirely human : BIONIC
44
Deemed appropriate : SAWFIT
45
Lycées, e.g. : ECOLES
46
Old communications giant : ITT
49
Skin flicks and such : SMUT
50
Forum wear : TOGA
51
Become definite : JELL
52
Shapes with holes : TORI
53
Hilarious one : RIOT
54
Novelist O'Brien : EDNA
55
A couple of bucks, say : DEER
58
It's in one year and out the other : FAD

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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