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New York Times, Wednesday, January 9, 2002

Author:
Susan Harrington Smith
Editor:
Will Shortz
59-Down : Weak one
TotalDebutLatest
1011/23/199410/25/2007
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
21.565548%
Susan Harrington Smith

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JZ} This is puzzle # 7 for Ms. Smith. Wednesday freshness: 94%
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© 2002, The New York Times1/9/2 ( No. 19,055 )
Across
1
Skinny tie : BOLO
5
Specimen holder : VIAL
9
Barely maintaining, with "out" : EKING
14
Jannings of "The Blue Angel" : EMIL
15
"That ___ excuse!" : ISNO
16
"Long time ___" : NOSEE
17
Start of a thought by 29-Across : TOOMUCHOF
19
Trough diners : SWINE
20
Upright : HONEST
21
Imitated a peacock, maybe : STRUTTED
23
Tedious business : CHORE
25
___-Magnon : CRO
26
Start of a Doris Day song title : QUESERA
29
See 17-Across : MAEWEST
33
Java holder : URN
34
___-dink : RINKY
36
Pythagorean triangle? : DELTA
37
German article : EINE
39
Thought, part 2 : AGOOD
41
"Titanic" soundtrack singer : DION
42
It'll make you sweat : SAUNA
44
Silas Marner's foundling : EPPIE
46
Green light : AOK
47
Thought, part 3 : THINGIS
49
Major keys? : ISLANDS
51
Prov. bordering Hudson Bay : ONT
52
Fancy-dress dos : GALAS
53
Light into : LAMBASTE
57
Seat of Parliament : OTTAWA
61
Jump for joy : EXULT
62
End of the thought : WONDERFUL
64
Path in Paris : ALLEE
65
"My Life as ___" (1985 film) : ADOG
66
Ural River city : ORSK
67
Exploits : DEEDS
68
Golf's Ballesteros : SEVE
69
One of Maris's overtakers : SOSA
Down
1
"Little Women" woman : BETH
2
Sequel to Melville's "Typee" : OMOO
3
MGM icon : LION
4
Mexican natives of old : OLMECS
5
"We are not amused" speaker : VICTORIA
6
Suffix with bull or bear : ISH
7
Win by ___ : ANOSE
8
Send up : LOFT
9
Guaranteed : ENSURED
10
Bowed and scraped : KOWTOWED
11
"From where ___ ..." : ISIT
12
Hawaiian goose : NENE
13
Made a right turn : GEED
18
Family name in a Poe story : USHER
22
Camcorder maker : RCA
24
Extends : RANGES
26
Pilgrimage : QUEST
27
Bathsheba's husband : URIAH
28
Lassitude : ENNUI
29
Mr. Magoo's problem : MYOPIA
30
Name in 2000 headlines : ELIAN
31
Prepared for the anthem, say : STOOD
32
Aquariums : TANKS
35
Keystone fellow : KOP
38
Exalted : ENNOBLED
40
Knock loose : DISLODGE
43
Relatives on father's side : AGNATES
45
Make happy : ELATE
48
Roy Orbison's "___ Over" : ITS
50
Nolan Ryan and others : ASTROS
52
Sparkly paperweight : GEODE
53
Front-runner's edge : LEAD
54
Wheel shaft : AXLE
55
Stubborn sort : MULE
56
Start of a Yuletide reading : TWAS
58
1970's coif : AFRO
59
Weak one : WUSS
60
___-Seltzer : ALKA
63
Remembrance Day mo. : NOV

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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