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New York Times, Tuesday, November 14, 2000

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
24-Down : It has no decimal point
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1938/7/199612/22/202321
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQVX} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 44 for Mr. Quigley. Tuesday freshness: 29%
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© 2000, The New York Times11/14/0 ( No. 18,634 )
Across
1
Exchange : SWAP
5
No longer waiting on the pier : ABOARD
11
Watch display, for short : LCD
14
Fictional wizard who studies at Hogwarts : HARRYPOTTER
16
Cargo on the Spanish Main : ORO
17
19
Sch. org. : PTA
20
According to : PER
21
Mining tools : PICKS
22
Cushion : PAD
23
Miss Hawkins of Dogpatch : SADIE
26
Talk a blue streak? : CUSS
28
Tree of life locale : EDEN
30
Angry dog's response : SNARL
33
Stew vegetable : PEA
34
Hubbub : ADO
37
Quartet after a desertion : TRIO
38
Popeye's gal Olive ___ : OYL
39
1956 sci-fi classic : FORBIDDENPLANET
44
French article : UNE
45
QB Flutie : DOUG
46
Break bread : EAT
47
Old draft initials : SSS
48
Partner of dangerous : ARMED
50
Baseball's Say Hey Kid : MAYS
54
Prefix with plasm : ECTO
56
Filmgoer's lure : PROMO
59
Mideast inits. : UAE
60
Air traffic control device : RADAR
63
U.S. soldiers : GIS
64
Schuss : SKI
65
Song from the Beatles' "Abbey Road" : HERECOMESTHESUN
69
A foot wide? : EEE
70
Convert to McDonald's, the Gap, etc. : AMERICANIZE
71
Genetic stuff : RNA
72
Serious lack : DEARTH
73
Like Latin, today : DEAD
Down
1
"Olde" establishment : SHOPPE
2
Classified : WANTAD
3
Coin-op place : ARCADE
4
Grand ___, Nova Scotia : PRE
5
Sleeping disorder : APNEA
6
S.A.T.'s : BOARDS
7
Gambling spot, in brief : OTB
8
The "A" of NATO: Abbr. : ATL
9
Enlist again : REUP
10
Eins + zwei : DREI
11
View : LOOKUPON
12
Ocular problem : CROSSEYE
13
Mafia chief : DON
15
Pound sounds : YIPS
18
1200, on a monument : MCC
24
It has no decimal point : INTEGER
25
Merit : EARN
27
Ice melter : SALT
29
Apprehend : NAB
31
Ready to pluck : RIPE
32
"Copacabana" showgirl : LOLA
35
___ number on (psyched out) : DIDA
36
"P.U.!" cause : ODOR
39
It may be kept in a box in the basement : FUSE
40
Like a computer icon : ONSCREEN
41
Interstate stopping point : RESTAREA
42
Place for trash : DUMP
43
PIN requester : ATM
49
Loafs : DOGSIT
51
Sydney native : AUSSIE
52
Japanese gangster group : YAKUZA
53
Fished with a net : SEINED
55
"___ to Billie Joe" : ODE
57
Bandleader Miller : MITCH
58
Worker protection grp. : OSHA
61
West Point, e.g.: Abbr. : ACAD
62
Vatican's locale : ROME
65
That girl : HER
66
"Give ___ break!" : MEA
67
Flub : ERR
68
Last part (appropriately) : END

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

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