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New York Times, Tuesday, November 19, 2002

Author:
Alan Arbesfeld
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Down : Bluefins
TotalDebutLatest
1338/27/19814/1/2024
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
2511253728151
RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
51.59618943%
Alan Arbesfeld

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 43 for Mr. Arbesfeld. Tuesday freshness: 72%
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© 2002, The New York Times11/19/2 ( No. 19,369 )
Across
1
Coffee, slangily : JAVA
5
Elite : CHOSEN
11
Western treaty grp. : OAS
14
Chem. table component : ELEM
15
Uproar : OUTCRY
16
Sis's sibling : BRO
17
Shrill : EARPIERCING
19
"The Lord of the Rings" figure : ELF
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Ask too many questions : PRY
21
___-Magnon : CRO
22
Tiny spot in the ocean : ISLET
24
Arduous : BACKBREAKING
28
1966 U.S. Open champion Fred : STOLLE
31
Actor Greene : LORNE
32
Object trivially : CAVIL
33
Inopportune : ILLTIMED
37
Summer quaffs : ADES
38
Basket fiber : ISTLE
40
Knot : NODE
41
Soap star A ___ : MARTINEZ
43
Slight color : TINGE
44
___ nous : ENTRE
45
Like Oreos and doughnuts, often : DUNKED
46
Extremely sad : HEARTRENDING
50
Certain daisy : OXEYE
51
Eggs : OVA
52
Dessert in a pan : PIE
55
Russian fighter : MIG
56
Persuasion : ARMTWISTING
61
Yale student : ELI
62
Kaput : RUINED
63
___ Romeo (sports car) : ALFA
64
Sycophant's response : YES
65
Sink to the bottom, as sediment : SETTLE
66
Trudge : PLOD
Down
1
Cherokee maker : JEEP
2
Apple spray : ALAR
3
Extremely : VERY
4
Rock concert equipment : AMP
5
Force : COERCE
6
Impresario Sol : HUROK
7
Like many drugs: Abbr. : OTC
8
Biol. or chem. : SCI
9
Suffix on north or south : ERN
10
Major League player before moving to S.F. : NYGIANT
11
÷ symbols : OBELI
12
Sen. Specter : ARLEN
13
Sound starting "Germany" : SOFTG
18
"___ Your Name" (Mamas & the Papas song) : ICALL
23
Winding yarn : SKEINING
24
Like sore hands : BLISTERY
25
One of Santa's team : BLITZEN
26
Dinner bread : ROLL
27
___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
28
Trick : SCAM
29
"Voila!" : TADA
30
Completed : OVER
34
Member of an order : MONK
35
Nose (out) : EDGE
36
Property title : DEED
38
Foreword: Abbr. : INTR
39
Dried up : SERE
42
Crying : INTEARS
43
Bluefins : TUNAS
45
What ÷ signifies, in math : DIVIDE
46
Cozy : HOMEY
47
Force out : EXILE
48
Auspices : AEGIS
49
Carpentry pin : DOWEL
52
Hardly the life of the party : PILL
53
Dope : INFO
54
"Omigosh!" : EGAD
57
Parisian street : RUE
58
Cambridge sch. : MIT
59
It might make molehills out of mountains : TNT
60
Dancer's shoe attachment : TAP

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

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