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New York Times, Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Author:
Gail Grabowski and Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
4-Down : Mario of the Indianapolis 500
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1311/18/20027/8/20144
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0580000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.573411%
Gail Grabowski
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQVX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 7 for Ms. Grabowski. This is puzzle # 149 for Ms. Salomon. Tuesday freshness: 48%
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© 2005, The New York Times11/8/5 ( No. 20,454 )
Across
1
Poisonous plants : SUMACS
7
Letters for Letterman : CBS
10
"Right now!" : STAT
14
Discordant : ATONAL
15
Cry heard in a bullring : OLE
16
Small jet maker : LEAR
17
Place to test aerodynamics : WINDTUNNEL
19
Isaac's eldest : ESAU
20
Bakery gizmo : ICER
21
One of the Lennons : SEAN
22
Broadway background : SET
23
Hoopster Archibald : NATE
24
Kukla or Ollie, e.g. : HANDPUPPET
28
Give it a go : TRY
30
Employ more employees : UPSIZE
31
Glass marble : AGATE
34
Clutch : GRASP
37
Chinese author ___ Yutang : LIN
38
Placing (and a hint to the first words of 17-, 24-, 47- and 60-Across) : FINISHINGSECOND
41
Stool pigeon : RAT
42
Out of style : PASSE
43
Dull drills : ROTES
44
2,000 pounds : ONETON
46
Telepathic letters : ESP
47
Skinny Minnie : STRINGBEAN
51
Funnyman Sandler : ADAM
55
Offbeat : ODD
56
Some shortening : LARD
57
Brazilian soccer legend : PELE
58
Amorphous mass : BLOB
60
Author's success : BESTSELLER
62
"La Bohème" heroine : MIMI
63
Bit of sunshine : RAY
64
Practical : USEFUL
65
Direction wagon trains headed : WEST
66
Alias : AKA
67
Nebraska river : PLATTE
Down
1
Greeted, as the New Year : SAWIN
2
Central New York city : UTICA
3
"Water Lilies" painter : MONET
4
Mario of the Indianapolis 500 : ANDRETTI
5
Hipster : CAT
6
Like half-melted snow : SLUSHY
7
Arthur ___ Doyle : CONAN
8
It's not 100% this or that : BLEND
9
French seasoning : SEL
10
Is in dreamland : SLEEPS
11
Aviator in search of bugs : TESTPILOT
12
Battery size : AAA
13
Robert Morse Tony-winning role : TRU
18
PBS benefactor : NEA
22
Potluck get-togethers : SUPPERS
25
Face, slangily : PUSS
26
Some cyberreading : EZINE
27
Looks after : TENDS
29
Give an answer : RESPOND
31
60's-70's dos : AFROS
32
Goliath : GIANT
33
Vestibules : ANTEROOMS
34
Dogfaces : GIS
35
Hosp. staffers : RNS
36
Count of candles on a cake : AGE
39
"___ in there!" : HANG
40
Come to terms for less jail time, say : COPAPLEA
45
Gossip unit : TIDBIT
46
Ultimately becomes : ENDSUP
48
Dickens's "___ House" : BLEAK
49
Cushy course : EASYA
50
Know-how : ART
52
Blue-and-white earthenware : DELFT
53
Alaskan native : ALEUT
54
Singer Haggard : MERLE
58
Upscale auto initials : BMW
59
Practice tact, perhaps : LIE
60
Playtex offering : BRA
61
Immigrant's subj. : ESL

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

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