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New York Times, Wednesday, November 20, 2002

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
7-Down : What a 41-Across does best
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QVX} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 167 for Mr. Nosowsky. Wednesday freshness: 33%
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© 2002, The New York Times11/20/2 ( No. 19,370 )
Across
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Large or small, grammatically: Abbr. : ADJ
4
Be next to : ABUT
8
Circle in a winner's circle : WREATH
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"Tell ___ story" : MEA
15
"This will ___ further" : GONO
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Have a yen (for) : HANKER
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It doesn't go full circle : ARC
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Activity for 41-Across : RODOMONTADE
20
Popular pasta : ZITI
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Place : SITUATE
23
Polish film, e.g. : EDIT
24
Try out : TEST
25
Gluck's "___ ed Euridice" : ORFEO
29
Prevent : DETER
31
Three-time Indy winner Wilbur ___, who introduced the crash helmet : SHAW
33
Breeze (through) : SAIL
34
Love, in Lima : AMOR
36
Memo opener : INRE
38
New Deal letters : NRA
39
Scolding syllable : TUT
41
Subject of this puzzle : BOASTER
43
Hardly macho : FEY
44
News inits. beginning in 1958 : UPI
45
Rain in Spain collector : EBRO
46
Wine county : NAPA
48
Numbskull : BOOB
50
Autobahn autos : BMWS
52
Stroke of the pen? : SERIF
55
Cancel : ANNUL
57
Carpenters and harvesters : ANTS
59
Fishing equipment : RODS
60
Cover when wet : RAINHAT
62
Put in stitches : KNIT
63
Activity for 41-Across : BRAGGADOCIO
67
Hustle or bustle : ADO
68
Plane's distance recording device : AIRLOG
69
Fishing equipment : REEL
70
Downturn : DIP
71
Beyond what's expected : MORESO
72
Wall St. trading group : NYSE
73
Venusians and others, for short : ETS
Down
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Dumbfounded : AMAZED
2
Mock : DERIDE
3
Activity for 41-Across : JACTITATION
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Cabinet dept. : AGR
5
Leg up : BOOST
6
Small drawers? : UNDIES
7
What a 41-Across does best : TOOTSHISOWNHORN
8
"Stop right there!" : WHOA
9
Cost : RANTO
10
Makes a record of : ENTERS
11
Wanted letters : AKA
12
Home run swatter Williams : TED
13
Charlemagne's domain: Abbr. : HRE
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Genetic surprise : MUTANT
21
Couple in a column : ITEM
26
Activity for 41-Across : FANFARONADE
27
Dublin's home : EIRE
28
Oil of ___ : OLAY
30
Day spa attire : ROBE
32
Bird that perches with its tail straight up : WREN
35
The ___ Report (upscale magazine) : ROBB
37
Big times : ERAS
39
Marching band staple : TUBA
40
Abreast of : UPON
42
Hammer in oil : ARMAND
47
Fringe benefit : PERK
49
Rob : BURGLE
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Actress Dash of "Clueless" : STACEY
53
"Hurray for me!" : IDIDIT
54
Camera settings : FSTOPS
56
Nigerian capital before Abuja : LAGOS
58
Pigpens : STIES
61
Globe plotter : IAGO
63
Collision sound : BAM
64
___ Grande : RIO
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Flight board abbr. : ARR
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Roar of approval : OLE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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