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New York Times, Saturday, September 17, 2005

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
18-Across : Threads
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 27 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 176 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 49%
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© 2005, The New York Times9/17/5 ( No. 20,402 )
Across
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Immodest Googling : EGOSURFING
11
Booted, say : SHOD
15
"The Three Musketeers" actress, 1948 : LANATURNER
16
Geometric shapes : TORI
17
Reran : PLAYEDOVER
18
Threads : DUDS
19
Narrow-sleeved garments : ALBS
20
"Wow!" : EGAD
21
Cornering challenges : ESSES
22
New York college founded by Franciscans : SIENA
24
Course error : SLICE
26
"... ___ the set of sun": "Macbeth" : ERE
27
Moray eel victims : OCTOPI
29
Together : INUNISON
31
Wind or water : ERODER
33
Ex-lax? : TAUT
34
Soviet W.W. II foreign affairs commissar : MOLOTOV
38
Island with the volcano Mt. Liamuiga : STKITTS
40
Paris-born painter Tanguy : YVES
41
Subject of Drumnadrochit village observation : NESSIE
43
Abbreviated : CUTSHORT
45
Went boldly : STRODE
50
Plug end : OLA
51
Shows a desire to get in : ANTES
53
48-Down resident : TEXAN
54
Series about the firm McKenzie Brackman : LALAW
56
Large predator : ORCA
58
Subject of a museum in St. Petersburg, Fla. : DALI
59
Former Platte River dwellers : OTOS
60
Deli offerings : ONIONROLLS
62
Hat-tipper, say : GENT
63
Asceticism feature : SELFDENIAL
64
Strategic W.W. I river : YSER
65
Exhibit artfulness : USEFINESSE
Down
1
Fort Bliss city : ELPASO
2
Like some victims of the Vandals : GALLIC
3
For anything : ONABET
4
Declines : SAYSNO
5
Mountain West conference player : UTE
6
Unrefined : RUDE
7
Aristophanes drama, with "The" : FROGS
8
Bedbound : INVALID
9
Poverty : NEEDINESS
10
Bite preceder : GRR
11
Censor's list: Abbr. : STDS
12
Watched things : HOUSESAT
13
Get to go ... or make go : ORDEROUT
14
Doesn't go along : DISSENTS
21
Lyrical period : EEN
23
Ticked off, after "in" : APET
25
Hoover's vice president : CURTIS
28
Like some transfers : IRONON
30
"Lord, is ___?": Matthew : ITI
32
Hints : OVERTONES
34
Science dealing with fungi : MYCOLOGY
35
Makes eggs, in a way : OVULATES
36
Much less : LETALONE
37
1942 F.D.R. creation : OSS
39
Teenager of old comics : KETT
42
Barren : STERILE
44
Sound uncertain : HAW
46
Altered : REDONE
47
Wood sorrel genus : OXALIS
48
Trinity River city : DALLAS
49
Stick on a key? : ENISLE
52
Mock : SCOFF
55
Science class: Abbr. : ASTR
57
"___ quote ..." : ANDI
60
Sch. in Stillwater : OSU
61
Cartoon pooch : REN

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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