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New York Times, Thursday, August 19, 2004

Author:
Ed Early
Editor:
Will Shortz
16-Across : Carrying out the garbage, e.g.
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
557/7/19947/14/20081
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1917117442
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5419532%
Ed Early

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FGJQXZ} This is puzzle # 36 for Mr. Early. Thursday freshness: 79%
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© 2004, The New York Times8/19/4 ( No. 20,008 )
Across
1
Fair-sized garden : ACRE
5
Tater : SPUD
9
Cue user : ACTOR
14
"Mon ___!" : DIEU
15
Garr of film : TERI
16
Carrying out the garbage, e.g. : CHORE
17
Impugn : DISCREDIT
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"My Friend" of 1950's TV and others : IRMAS
20
What Satan gets from poison ivy? : THEWICKEDITCH
22
With 45-Across, book title with a hint to this puzzle's theme : WHERES
24
Chinese dynasty of 2,000 years ago : HAN
25
Underground facility : SILO
26
Foreshadowed : BODED
27
Like some lines : DOTTED
29
G.I.'s address : APO
30
Orderly phrase that can follow one, two or three : ATATIME
34
Money earned by a hospital worker? : INTERNREVENUE
39
When there may be censorship : WARTIME
40
New Deal agcy. : NRA
42
Corps member : MARINE
45
See 22-Across : WALDO
47
Spray target : ODOR
48
Big name in ISP's : AOL
51
"Aieeeee!," e.g. : SHRIEK
52
Donation for crackpots? : DOLLARSTONUTS
55
Film director Kenton and others : ERLES
56
Pertaining to the lower skull bone : OCCIPITAL
59
Hardly accepting : LEERY
60
Truckful : LOAD
61
Architect Saarinen : EERO
62
Clipped : TERSE
63
Alternatively : ELSE
64
Vitamin amts. : RDAS
Down
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Word on a dipstick : ADD
2
Year in Trajan's reign : CII
3
Used as a chair : RESTEDON
4
Cheat, slangily : EUCHRE
5
They may be Irish : STEWS
6
Prefix with cab : PEDI
7
"Spenser: For Hire" star : URICH
8
Bears Hall-of-Famer Mike : DITKA
9
It has a low pH : ACID
10
Name : CHRISTEN
11
Wren, for one : TOMTIT
12
Answer provider : ORACLE
13
Like work horses, often : RESHOD
18
Matting material : REED
21
Salad leaf : ENDIVE
22
I.B.F. rival : WBA
23
Kachina doll maker : HOPI
28
Cockney's residence : OME
30
State of lateness : ARREAR
31
Blaster : TNT
32
Uris hero ___ Ben Canaan : ARI
33
Pro ___ : TEM
35
Majorettes, e.g. : TWIRLERS
36
Suffix with Euclid : EAN
37
Like some stocks : UNLISTED
38
Second planet past Merkur : ERDE
41
In perfect condition : AOK
42
Product introduced in 1908 "for the great multitude" : MODELT
43
Renée of silents : ADOREE
44
Painting aid : ROLLER
45
Trounce : WHUP
46
More pretentious : ARTIER
49
"___ Mio" : OSOLE
50
Rank above maj. : LTCOL
51
Sarcastic : SNIDE
53
"___ sow ..." : ASYE
54
Wood sorrels : OCAS
57
Coach Parseghian : ARA
58
___ Alamitos, Calif. : LOS

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

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