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New York Times, Monday, October 13, 2003

Author:
Eric Berlin
Editor:
Will Shortz
6-Down : Cowardly
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
436/23/200211/29/20203
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1413521521
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
361.5223969%
Eric Berlin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQWX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Berlin. Monday freshness: 2%
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© 2003, The New York Times10/13/3 ( No. 19,697 )
Across
1
Sign of injury : SCAR
5
Military sch. : ACAD
9
Storied royal elephant : BABAR
14
"Where the heart is" : HOME
15
The Bee Gees, e.g. : TRIO
16
Like howls in a haunted house : EERIE
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[sigh] : ALAS
18
Fruity pastry : TART
19
Components of molecules : ATOMS
20
+, mathematically : POSITIVESIGN
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Tangled up : ENSNARED
24
Holds, as a hand : CLASPS
28
Baseball's Griffey : KEN
29
Suit accessory : TIE
30
Drivel : PAP
31
Wipe clean : ERASE
35
Ruby or Sandra : DEE
36
Skater Thomas : DEBI
37
The, grammatically : DEFINITEARTICLE
41
Hours-long film, perhaps : EPIC
42
Oui's opposite : NON
43
Put new ground cover on : RESOD
44
Negative conjunction : NOR
45
Unreturnable serve : ACE
46
Grassland : LEA
48
Brando's wail in "A Streetcar Named Desire" : STELLA
50
Tumbled like a waterfall : CASCADED
55
-459.67°F, scientifically : ABSOLUTEZERO
57
Inviting odor : AROMA
60
___ avis : RARA
61
Aquatic bird : TERN
62
Sophia of "Two Women" : LOREN
63
Author ___ Easton Ellis : BRET
64
Suffix with switch : EROO
65
Many a parent/child bedtime ritual : STORY
66
All there : SANE
67
Irish native : CELT
Down
1
Circle or square : SHAPE
2
: : COLON
3
Collect : AMASS
4
Sticky pine stuff : RESIN
5
Outfit : ATTIRE
6
Cowardly : CRAVEN
7
Put on TV : AIRED
8
You might connect them : DOTS
9
Snoopy, for one : BEAGLE
10
Prudential rival : AETNA
11
Sis's sib : BRO
12
Order between "ready" and "fire" : AIM
13
Notes after dos : RES
21
Not available, as a seat : TAKEN
22
More hazardous, as winter roads : ICIER
25
Builder's plans, informally : SPECS
26
Artist Picasso : PABLO
27
Emulated 007 : SPIED
29
Mad Hatter's drink : TEA
31
Paradises : EDENS
32
Move, as a plant : REPOT
33
Burning : AFIRE
34
Order to attack, with "on" : SIC
35
Family room : DEN
36
Six-sided game piece : DIE
38
Early Peruvians : INCAS
39
Sock part : TOE
40
Draw an outline of : TRACE
45
The Empire State's capital : ALBANY
46
Fashion designer Ralph : LAUREN
47
Manor and its grounds : ESTATE
49
Not so good, as an excuse : LAMER
50
Silent star Bow : CLARA
51
Montezuma, for instance : AZTEC
52
Steel plow maker : DEERE
53
Swashbuckling Flynn : ERROL
54
Start of a prohibition : DONOT
56
Spheres : ORBS
57
Capp and Capone : ALS
58
Go to waste : ROT
59
Spanish gold : ORO

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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