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New York Times, Tuesday, February 8, 2005

Author:
Stephen Budiansky
Editor:
Will Shortz
56-Down : The one here
TotalDebutLatest
29/26/20012/8/2005
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Stephen Budiansky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQVXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Budiansky. Tuesday freshness: 81%
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© 2005, The New York Times2/8/5 ( No. 20,181 )
Across
1
The Beatles or the Stones : BAND
5
Penny : CENT
9
When repeated, a city in Washington : WALLA
14
Inter ___ : ALIA
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Penny, maybe, in poker : ANTE
16
With 3-Down, French-born diarist : ANAIS
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57-Across song about a request in a gene lab? : SENDINTHECLONES
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Not pro : ANTI
21
Senescence : OLDAGE
22
Prefix with dermal : EPI
25
Rocky hill : TOR
26
Prepare for printing : TYPESET
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Prefix with gliding : PARA
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Change over at a factory : RETOOL
31
Pulitzer or Tony, as for 57-Across : AWARD
33
Star of Scorpio : ANTARES
37
57-Across song about a request in the maritime supply store? : ABUOYLIKETHAT
40
Varnish ingredient : TUNGOIL
41
Dye chemical : EOSIN
43
Pouilly-___ (white wine) : FUISSE
46
Individual : SELF
47
Board game from India : PACHISI
51
Shade tree : ELM
53
Dover's state: Abbr. : DEL
54
Slothful : OTIOSE
55
Word said twice before "Don't tell me!" : WAIT
57
Noted Broadway composer : STEPHENSONDHEIM
63
With 68-Across, what Fred MacMurray had in a 1960's sitcom : THREE
64
007 : BOND
65
Famed lab assistant : IGOR
66
Old catalog maker : SEARS
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Swear : CUSS
68
See 63-Across : SONS
Down
1
___-relief : BAS
2
Pint at a pub : ALE
3
See 16-Across : NIN
4
20th-century art movement : DADA
5
Synagogue singer : CANTOR
6
Whole : ENTIRE
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A degree : NTH
8
Golf bag item : TEE
9
Light switch surrounder : WALLPLATE
10
Battery end : ANODE
11
Actress Turner and others : LANAS
12
Lord or vassal : LIEGE
13
It's a plus in accounting : ASSET
18
C.D. earnings: Abbr. : INT
19
Howler : COYOTE
22
Mileage rating grp. : EPA
23
Manhandle : PAWAT
24
Pitcher Hideki ___ : IRABU
26
Honky-___ : TONK
28
Give ___ for one's money : ARUN
30
Heads' opposite : TAILS
32
Small sharks : DOGFISHES
34
Followers of pis : RHOS
35
Alleviated : EASED
36
Fence crossing : STILE
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"Get it?" : YOUSEE
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53, in old Rome : LIII
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Patriots' org. : NFL
44
Some patches : SEWONS
45
African antelopes : ELANDS
47
Fence features : POSTS
48
___ drop of a hat : ATTHE
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Old Oldsmobile : CIERA
50
Wishful one : HOPER
52
Central : MID
56
The one here : THIS
58
Brian Williams's employer : NBC
59
Old French coin : SOU
60
Bigheadedness : EGO
61
Charged particle : ION
62
___ Butterworth's : MRS

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

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