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New York Times, Tuesday, January 28, 2003

Author:
Christina Houlihan
Editor:
Will Shortz
24-Down : Ornamental shrub
TotalDebutLatest
912/17/20014/14/2008
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0620100
RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.662519%
Christina Houlihan Kelly

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {KQ} This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Kelly. Tuesday freshness: 41%
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© 2003, The New York Times1/28/3 ( No. 19,439 )
Across
1
Speak off the cuff : ADLIB
6
___ of Commons : HOUSE
11
Govt. property overseer : GSA
14
Hotelier Helmsley : LEONA
15
___ salts : EPSOM
16
Shoemaker's tool : AWL
17
Court filings : LEGALBRIEFS
19
Microwave, slangily : ZAP
20
"... ___ shall die" : ORI
21
Deprived : BEREFT
22
It may be cut in a studio : DEMO
23
Ice down again : RECOOL
25
___ Reader (magazine) : UTNE
27
Some ugly ducklings, so to speak : LATEBLOOMERS
33
Scottish hillside : BRAE
36
Mme., in Madrid : SRA
37
Fear : PHOBIA
38
Spirits : AURAS
40
Picnic crasher : ANT
42
End of many a college major : OLOGY
43
Jobs of limited duration : STINTS
45
Big part of a dinosaur skeleton : JAW
47
"Much" preceder : INAS
48
Some athletes in training : SHADOWBOXERS
51
Fencing need : EPEE
52
"Stop acting up!" : BEHAVE
56
"Roseanne" star : BARR
59
Short compositions : ETUDES
62
By way of : VIA
63
Eggs, in bio labs : OVA
64
Common sight after a burglary : OPENDRAWERS
66
Clearasil target : ZIT
67
"As You Like It" woman : CELIA
68
Like a sumo wrestler : LARGE
69
"___ on a Grecian Urn" : ODE
70
"Yum!" : TASTY
71
Commend highly : EXTOL
Down
1
___ nothing : ALLOR
2
Big name in tractors : DEERE
3
Computer programmer's need : LOGIC
4
"___ New York minute" : INA
5
Sighter of the Pacific Ocean, 1513 : BALBOA
6
München "sir" : HERR
7
Mayberry boy : OPIE
8
Beneficial : USEFUL
9
Convertible type : SOFTTOP
10
CPR pros : EMS
11
Surveyor's look : GAZE
12
Did one-third of a triathlon : SWAM
13
Gravy Train competitor : ALPO
18
Passenger safety items : BELTS
22
Total : DEMOLISH
24
Ornamental shrub : OLEANDER
26
Neighborhood that overlaps part of Greenwich Village : NOHO
28
Time in history : ERA
29
What a plucker may pluck : BANJO
30
Black, to poets : EBON
31
Baltic capital : RIGA
32
"___ who?" : SAYS
33
Low pitch? : BASS
34
Baby ___ : RUTH
35
Song for Sills : ARIA
39
"Enough!" : STOP
41
Duty : TAX
44
Popeye's son : SWEEPEA
46
Artist Max : WEBER
49
Asian nut-bearing palms : BETELS
50
Antique dealer's transaction : RESALE
53
Turn away : AVERT
54
Sign of late summer : VIRGO
55
Stand for something? : EASEL
56
Popular clown : BOZO
57
Eager : AVID
58
Appraise : RATE
60
Military group : UNIT
61
6/6/1944 : DDAY
64
Sept. follower : OCT
65
Wane's partner : WAX

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

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