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New York Times, Friday, December 31, 2004

Author:
David Quarfoot
Editor:
Will Shortz
57-Down : Bass line provider
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David Quarfoot

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 6, (2 triple stacks) Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Quarfoot. Friday freshness: 26%
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© 2004, The New York Times12/31/4 ( No. 20,142 )
Across
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Got back at someone, eventually : HADTHELASTLAUGH
16
Leave a dispute unsettled : AGREETODISAGREE
17
"And I'll skip the boring part" : YADDAYADDAYADDA
18
Book before Neh. : EZR
19
Notable resignee: Abbr. : RMN
20
Where operators stand by?: Abbr. : ERS
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Amer. money : USD
22
Handles : SEESTO
24
Simple problem : SUM
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Inclined : ASLOPE
30
Recommendations : PICKS
34
Bach's "joy of man's desiring" : JESU
37
Bornean tree-dweller : ORANG
39
Popular 1940's radio quiz show : DRIQ
40
"While ___ it ..." : IMAT
41
Thelma's player in "Thelma & Louise" : GEENA
42
Regard : DEEM
43
Set, in Somme : FIXE
44
Late name in Mideast politics : YASIR
45
Dolly of "Hello, Dolly!" : LEVI
46
F.B.I. chief after Sessions : FREEH
48
See 5-Down : DESIRE
50
Manufacturer's need : DIE
52
One of an old film duo : BACALL
56
They've been tagged : ITS
59
A multiple of XIX : DLI
61
Monthly or quarterly, briefly : MAG
62
Swell place? : SEA
63
Spinner of tales : RUMPELSTILTSKIN
67
"Guys and Dolls" song : ABUSHELANDAPECK
68
66, e.g. : NATIONALHIGHWAY
Down
1
Mount ___, peak 90 miles SSE of Fairbanks : HAYES
2
Goggling : AGAZE
3
Eminem's discoverer : DRDRE
4
A Turner : TED
5
With 48-Across, deepest longing : HEARTS
6
One may go after the meaning : ETYMOLOGY
7
Advance : LOAN
8
Also say : ADD
9
Team : SIDE
10
Crowned heads of old : TSARS
11
Stores : LAYSUP
12
Bygone dignitary : AGA
13
Asian tongue : URDU
14
Some students' goals: Abbr. : GEDS
15
Ranch unit : HEAD
23
Prepared porcini, e.g. : SAUTEED
25
Piano primer reference point : MIDDLEC
27
Companion of Artemis : OREAD
28
Bel ___ : PAESE
29
Home of the Texas Motorplex : ENNIS
31
Language from which "Saskatchewan" is derived : CREE
32
Mussorgsky's "The Great Gate of ___" : KIEV
33
640 acres: Abbr. : SQMI
34
Sec : JIFF
35
Kaffiyeh-clad commander : EMIR
36
___-Coburg, old German duchy : SAXE
38
Conqueror of Naples, 1860 : GARIBALDI
47
Cab Calloway's "kingdom" : HIDEHO
49
Unkempt : RAGTAG
51
Popular talk show : ELLEN
53
Not even : ASKEW
54
Olympus competitor : LEICA
55
Squat's opposite : LANKY
56
Its flag says "God is great" 22 times : IRAN
57
Bass line provider : TUBA
58
It's not clean : SMUT
60
Land in el mar : ISLA
61
Chi follower : MINH
64
Chi follower : PSI
65
1960's chess champ : TAL
66
Geom. solid : SPH

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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