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New York Times, Saturday, December 6, 2003

Author:
Craig Kasper
Editor:
Will Shortz
52-Down : Loser
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1612/5/199710/21/20075
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
43012321
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
211.5810758%
Craig Kasper

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJKQZ} This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Kasper. Saturday freshness: 35%
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© 2003, The New York Times12/6/3 ( No. 19,751 )
Across
1
Savvy : SMARTS
7
Basketball player's stat : HANDSPAN
15
Stay out of sight : HOLEUP
16
TV family member whose words are often bleeped : OSBOURNE
17
Layperson in a monastery : OBLATE
18
"And?" : WHATNEXT
19
Not at all shady : TRUSTABLE
21
Diamond with a mike : NEIL
22
They may hold money for passengers : PURSERS
23
Run off, in the old days : MIMEO
24
Beekeeper in a 1997 film : ULEE
25
A hero may have it : SALAMI
29
Tallies: Abbr. : PTS
30
Clipped : TERSE
32
At the time of : UPON
33
QB Detmer and others : TYS
34
Place to display goods : SALESROOM
38
Downed, as shots : DID
41
No longer work : REST
42
Caught on camera : TAPED
46
Like some discounted mdse. : IRR
47
Receives eagerly : LAPSUP
50
It may be for the birds : CAGE
51
Four in an acre : ROODS
53
"What have you been up to lately?" response : NOTALOT
55
Aplenty, once : ENOW
56
Not work independently : COOPERATE
58
Part of some platters : COLESLAW
61
Conductor knighted in 1996 : PREVIN
62
Tundra borderer : TREELINE
63
Painter Meissonier : ERNEST
64
Taboo : VERBOTEN
65
Worrywart's words : DEARME
Down
1
Casting event : SHOTPUT
2
Ochlocracy : MOBRULE
3
Siren : ALLURER
4
Have second thoughts about : REASSESS
5
"___ le feste" ("Rigoletto" aria) : TUTTE
6
Sticks, in a way : SPEARS
7
React to something hilarious : HOWL
8
Court great : ASHE
9
Grp. concerned with traveling : NBA
10
Part of some letters : DOT
11
Certain Iraqi : SUNNI
12
Bump : PREEMPT
13
Cause of some attacks : ANXIETY
14
Business setback : NETLOSS
20
It's associated with dens: Abbr. : BSA
23
North Dakota city : MINOT
26
Cravings : LUSTS
27
When D.S.T. begins : APR
28
Call from the field : MOO
31
London's ___ Court : EARLS
35
Player of Caroline in "Caroline and the City" : LEA
36
Questionable gift : ESP
37
1996 song that was #1 for 14 weeks : MACARENA
38
Dish Network rival : DIRECTV
39
Picked-out material? : IRONORE
40
One who's overly eager : DROOLER
43
Discussion : PALAVER
44
Not thinking of others : EGOTISM
45
Thaw : DETENTE
48
Game similar to crazy eights : UNO
49
Burst : POPPED
52
Loser : DWEEB
54
Land, in Lyon : TERRE
56
Mobility improver : CANE
57
Actor Reginald, who played both Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes : OWEN
59
Pitch preceder : SLO
60
Under the table : LIT

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

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