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New York Times, Monday, September 23, 2002

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Across : Check for fit, as clothes
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Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QW} This is puzzle # 91 for Mr. Gordon. Monday freshness: 12%
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© 2002, The New York Times9/23/2 ( No. 19,312 )
Across
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Actor Guinness : ALEC
5
Frolics : ROMPS
10
Beatles song or movie : HELP
14
Opera star : DIVA
15
Foreword, for short : INTRO
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Tarzan's raisers : APES
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Tied : EVENSTEVEN
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New Jersey hoopsters : NETS
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Big name in chickens : PERDUE
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Most forlorn : SADDEST
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Check for fit, as clothes : TRYON
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Off the correct path : ASTRAY
26
Winemaker Ernest or Julio : GALLO
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Corn : MAIZE
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Inclined path for wheelchairs : RAMP
36
Dictator Amin : IDI
37
___ bender (minor accident) : FENDER
38
Disney's "___ and the Detectives" : EMIL
39
"First Blood" character : RAMBO
41
Give a hand? : DEAL
42
Starbucks orders : DECAFS
44
Peanut butter holder : JAR
45
Ivy League school : YALE
46
Escargot : SNAIL
47
Recording studio devices : MIKES
49
Generic : NONAME
51
NBC morning show : TODAY
56
"Les Misérables" hero : VALJEAN
59
City on the Rio Grande : LAREDO
60
Opera song : ARIA
61
Clownish one : SILLYBILLY
64
Inert element used in lights : NEON
65
Extraterrestrial : ALIEN
66
Columbus's home : OHIO
67
Not out of one's mind : SANE
68
Lab glove material : LATEX
69
Penpoints : NIBS
Down
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Very skilled : ADEPT
2
Paté ingredient : LIVER
3
"___ man for himself" : EVERY
4
Enthusiastic, as an attitude : CANDO
5
Religious ceremony : RITE
6
Early afternoon : ONE
7
Network with annual awards : MTV
8
Magician's word : PRESTO
9
Submarine detector : SONAR
10
Repairman : HANDYANDY
11
Fencing sword : EPEE
12
Response to "Shall we?" : LETS
13
Cousin of "ahem" : PSST
18
Belted out, as a tune : SUNG
22
Honored woman : DAME
24
Emmy-winner Alan : ALDA
25
Brand of beef jerky : SLIMJIM
27
Broadcasts : AIRS
29
Brainstorm : IDEA
30
Eagerness : ZEAL
31
Writer ___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
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Many wines : REDS
33
End of a prayer : AMEN
34
Translucent mineral : MICA
35
Hardly a beauty : PLAINJANE
37
Duffer's cry : FORE
40
Make a cake, e.g. : BAKE
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Ice sheet : FLOE
47
Capital of the Philippines : MANILA
48
Pierce : STAB
50
Like a whiny voice : NASAL
52
Hunter of Greek myth : ORION
53
New ___, India : DELHI
54
Improvise : ADLIB
55
Duncan toys : YOYOS
56
Some car-pooling vehicles : VANS
57
Carpet buyer's calculation : AREA
58
Animal on England's shield : LION
59
Short-tailed wildcat : LYNX
62
Turned on : LIT
63
Civil War general : LEE

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

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