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New York Times, Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Author:
Alan Arbesfeld
Editor:
Will Shortz
52-Down : N.Y. Mets' div.
TotalDebutLatest
1338/27/19814/1/2024
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
2511253728151
RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
51.59618943%
Alan Arbesfeld

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQVXYZ} This is puzzle # 62 for Mr. Arbesfeld. Tuesday freshness: 58%
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© 2004, The New York Times2/24/4 ( No. 19,831 )
Across
1
Up to, in ads : TIL
4
Ozzy Osbourne's music, for short : METAL
9
Has a yen : ACHES
14
Prefix with puncture : ACU
15
Big name in refrigerators : AMANA
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Good, in Guadalajara : BUENO
17
Sound of hesitation : HEM
18
Desilu head : LUCILLEBALL
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That is : IDEST
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Posted : MAILED
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Pan pal? : TINKERBELL
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Ham, to Noah : SON
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One who knows all the secrets : INSIDER
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Deep down : ATHEART
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Educators' org. : NEA
35
Dickens's Heep : URIAH
36
Jefferson's note : TWODOLLARBILL
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Yours, old-style : THINE
43
Suffix with expert : ISE
44
Spoiled : WENTBAD
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Austere : SPARTAN
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With 36-Down, "Next ..." : AND
54
Weevil's hatching place : COTTONBOLL
56
Pennsylvania's ___ Mountains : POCONO
59
Usher's locale : AISLE
60
Michael Jordan, for years : CHICAGOBULL
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Rest and relaxation site : SPA
65
Egyptian Christians : COPTS
66
Pi, e.g. : RATIO
67
Often-hectic hosp. areas : ERS
68
Minute ___ : STEAK
69
Old New Yorker cartoonist William : STEIG
70
On the ___ : DOT
Down
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Island where Gauguin painted : TAHITI
2
Harborbound, in winter : ICEDIN
3
Light flux units : LUMENS
4
Fountain treat : MALTED
5
Swift bird on foot : EMU
6
Center X or O : TAC
7
Japanese cartoon art : ANIME
8
"Deck the Halls" syllables : LALALA
9
Genesis brother : ABEL
10
Rubik creation : CUBE
11
Foremast attachment : HEADSAIL
12
Big picture?: Abbr. : ENL
13
Our sun : SOL
19
Cheery song : LILT
21
Move among the moguls : SKI
24
Former Attorney General : RENO
25
Composer Jacques : BREL
27
Test type : ORAL
28
Utmost : NTH
31
Airline's home base : HUB
32
"___ tu" (Verdi aria) : ERI
34
Frazier foe : ALI
36
See 53-Across : THEN
37
Trachea : WINDPIPE
38
Que. neighbor : ONT
39
Cotillion girl : DEB
40
___ prof. : ASST
41
Bank take-back : REPO
42
Former flying inits. : TWA
45
Slip ___ (blunder) : ACOG
46
Bloodmobile visitors : DONORS
48
Not digital : ANALOG
49
Sacrifice fly stat. : RBI
50
Ejected : TOSSED
51
Elite N.F.L.er : ALLPRO
52
N.Y. Mets' div. : NLEAST
55
Go ___ for (support) : TOBAT
57
Eight: Prefix : OCTA
58
Wine holder : CASK
60
Syringe amts. : CCS
61
All the rage : HOT
62
Colorado native : UTE
63
XXVI doubled : LII

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3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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