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New York Times, Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Author:
Gene Newman
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Across : Do a favor
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Gene Newman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FQWXZ} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Newman. Tuesday freshness: 49%
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© 2004, The New York Times8/17/4 ( No. 20,006 )
Across
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___ the Red : ERIC
5
Fragrant blossom : LILAC
10
"Right on!" : AMEN
14
Woodworking groove : DADO
15
Excitedly : ABOIL
16
Stack : PILE
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He wrote "Utopia" in an ancient language : THOMASMORE
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Yard sale tag : ASIS
20
Partner of "ifs" and "ands" : BUTS
21
Arterial trunks : AORTAS
23
Do a favor : OBLIGE
26
Be charitable : DONATE
28
Tilted : LEANED
29
Oxidize : RUST
30
A.A.A. suggestion: Abbr. : RTE
33
Office stamp : DATER
34
Better halves : MATES
35
Disney Store item : CEL
36
"How Sweet ___" : ITIS
37
Mocks : JAPES
38
Something that shouldn't be left hanging : CHAD
39
Twilight time to a poet : EEN
40
More immense : HUGER
41
Rear : RAISE
42
TV prog. with a different host each week : SNL
43
Cupid's counterpart : AMOR
44
Author Lee : HARPER
45
Inner circle member : OLDBOY
47
Keats and others : ODISTS
48
Hogan dweller : NAVAJO
50
Seed cover : ARIL
51
Oscar winner Guinness : ALEC
52
Blind poet who often wrote in an ancient language : JOHNMILTON
58
Desertlike : SERE
59
Gladden : ELATE
60
Dust Bowl refugee : OKIE
61
Pianist Dame Myra : HESS
62
Dravidian language : TAMIL
63
___ contendere : NOLO
Down
1
Summer hrs. in N.J. : EDT
2
Cheer : RAH
3
Life-changing statement : IDO
4
Farm vehicles : COMBINES
5
Endured : LASTED
6
Many P.C.'s : IBMS
7
London lav : LOO
8
Vacuum's lack : AIR
9
Purifies : CLEANSES
10
Not close : APART
11
He taught an ancient language in film : MISTERCHIPS
12
Old London Magazine essayist : ELIA
13
Celebrated Prohibition-era lawman : NESS
18
Tool with a cross handle : AUGER
22
Feedbag feed : OATS
23
"Golden" things : OLDIES
24
Vanquished : BEATEN
25
What 17- and 52-Across and 11-Down all were : LATINLOVERS
26
Curtain : DRAPERY
27
North Carolina's ___ Banks : OUTER
31
Some china : TEASET
32
Church V.I.P.'s : ELDERS
34
Myopic cartoon character : MAGOO
37
Certain Boeing : JUMBOJET
38
Church music maker : CARILLON
40
Muslim pilgrimage : HADJ
41
Arm bones : RADII
44
Spam producer : HORMEL
46
Adds punch to, as punch : LACES
48
Bygone auto : NASH
49
Toward shelter : ALEE
50
Not pro : ANTI
53
Commercial suffix with Motor : OLA
54
Biblical ark passenger : HAM
55
Ref's decision : TKO
56
3-in-One product : OIL
57
"The Matrix" role : NEO

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

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