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New York Times, Tuesday, August 5, 2003

Author:
D. J. DeChristopher
Editor:
Will Shortz
64-Across : Dust Bowl drifters
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D. J. DeChristopher

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. DeChristopher. Tuesday freshness: 71%
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© 2003, The New York Times8/5/3 ( No. 19,628 )
Across
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Was of the opinion : HELD
5
"Shake ___!" : ALEG
9
Expensive wraps : FURS
13
Woodwind : OBOE
14
Less welcoming : ICIER
15
Straddling : ATOP
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Novelist Ambler : ERIC
17
1970's-80's TV twosome : MORKANDMINDY
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Recommended amount : DOSE
20
Overseas Mrs. : SRA
21
Gerber offerings : PUREES
22
Log holder : ANDIRON
24
Syllables sung in place of unknown words : LAS
25
Winner : VICTOR
27
In the wrong : MISTAKEN
32
Pledge of Allegiance ender : ALL
33
Actor Bean : ORSON
35
Androcles, e.g. : SLAVE
36
Fill the chambers, say : LOAD
38
Arab League member : YEMEN
40
Put in storage : STOW
41
Company in 2002 headlines : ENRON
43
Countrified : RURAL
45
Barely maintain, with "out" : EKE
46
Mimics' work : TAKEOFFS
48
Frequent ferry rider : ISLANDER
50
"Kidnapped" author's inits. : RLS
51
Composer Boulanger : NADIA
52
Black mark : STIGMA
56
Signal at Sotheby's : BID
57
Steel mill by-product : SLAG
60
1990's-2000's TV twosome : WILLANDGRACE
62
Coveted prize : PLUM
63
Diva's delivery : ARIA
64
Dust Bowl drifters : OKIES
65
What Dubliners call home : EIRE
66
Poverty : NEED
67
Jordan's Queen ___ : NOOR
68
Campus bigwig : DEAN
Down
1
Worked in rows : HOED
2
Spain's second-longest river : EBRO
3
1990's TV twosome : LOISANDCLARK
4
Iago's specialty : DECEIT
5
Hard nut to crack? : ACORN
6
Money replaced by the euro : LIRA
7
Rat alert? : EEK
8
Dads of dads : GRANDPAS
9
Evenhanded : FAIR
10
Magazine of reprints : UTNE
11
Took a cab : RODE
12
1974 Sutherland/Gould film : SPYS
14
#1 hit for Brenda Lee : IMSORRY
18
Imperatives : MUSTS
23
Outback hopper : ROO
24
___ notes : LINER
25
Jacket holder : VALET
26
Massey of old movies : ILONA
27
Personification of mockery : MOMUS
28
Oerter and Unser : ALS
29
1980's TV twosome : KATEANDALLIE
30
Elicit : EVOKE
31
Having a higher model number, say : NEWER
34
Feudal laborers : SERFS
37
John ___ : DOE
39
Water nymphs : NAIADES
42
Silent film star Mabel : NORMAND
44
It was dropped in the 60's : LSD
47
Wine holder : FLAGON
49
Didn't speak clearly : LISPED
51
More polite : NICER
52
E. B. White's "The Trumpet of the ___" : SWAN
53
Goodyear product : TIRE
54
Tennis great Nastase : ILIE
55
Delighted : GLAD
56
Scott of "Happy Days" : BAIO
58
A celebrity may have one : AURA
59
Feds : GMEN
61
"King Kong" studio : RKO

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

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