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New York Times, Wednesday, February 9, 2005

Author:
Alan Arbesfeld
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Alan Arbesfeld

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FQX} This is puzzle # 67 for Mr. Arbesfeld. Wednesday freshness: 33%
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© 2005, The New York Times2/9/5 ( No. 20,182 )
Across
1
Actress Thompson : SADA
5
Dye-yielding plant : ANIL
9
Humble in position : LOWLY
14
Baseball great ___ Speaker : TRIS
15
Paradoxical Greek : ZENO
16
Far from 9-Across : ELITE
17
Actors Holm and McKellen : IANS
18
Annual Broadway event : TONYAWARDS
20
Travolta musical : GREASE
22
Woolly, e.g. : OVINE
23
Met debutante of 1956 : MARIACALLAS
26
Talking computer of film : HAL
29
Bikini, for one : ATOLL
30
War stat. : MIA
31
Coin rating : RARE
32
Aware of : UPON
34
Baffin Islander : ESKIMO
36
Theme of this puzzle : WESTSIDESTORY
40
Dunk, e.g. : BASKET
41
Sp. miss : SRTA
42
"The Time Machine" people : ELOI
43
Mattress problem : SAG
44
"Vive ___!" : LEROI
49
Pick up : GET
50
Football's Gang Green : NEWYORKJETS
53
Play too broadly : EMOTE
55
Online newsgroup system : USENET
56
Predatory players : CARDSHARKS
60
Follower of H.S. : COLL
61
Crop up : ARISE
62
Trusses : TIES
63
Shuttle protector : TILE
64
Like Waldorf salad apples : DICED
65
Goofball : YOYO
66
Cheap digs: Abbr. : SROS
Down
1
Scarlet letter, e.g. : STIGMA
2
Genesis landfall : ARARAT
3
Moolah : DINERO
4
Tear into : ASSAIL
5
Cortez's victim : AZTEC
6
Start of some movement names : NEO
7
"Vacancy" shower : INN
8
New Orleans campus : LOYOLA
9
Defeater of Holyfield, 1999, for the world heavyweight title : LEWIS
10
Pearl Buck heroine : OLAN
11
Terrier type : WIREHAIR
12
India inc.? : LTD
13
"Indeed" : YES
19
Moira's player in "On the Beach" : AVA
21
Respectful greeting : SALUTE
24
Mine, in Marseille : AMOI
25
Tennis's Davenport : LINDSAY
27
___ brat : ARMY
28
Bossy but generous type, supposedly : LEO
31
"Suspicion" studio : RKO
33
Wash. setting : PST
34
Erhard movement : EST
35
Menaces, in a way : STALKS
36
Corduroy rib : WALE
37
Understood by few : ESOTERIC
38
Hit the trails : SKI
39
So : ERGO
40
Pray : BEG
43
Having had a good workout : SWEATY
45
Spits out : EJECTS
46
Painter of bathers : RENOIR
47
Verdi opus : OTELLO
48
Yucca fibers : ISTLES
50
Beat (out) : NOSED
51
Ordinal ending : ETH
52
___-Finnish War : RUSSO
54
Gds. : MDSE
56
Dirty dog : CAD
57
"Exodus" hero : ARI
58
"Road" film destination : RIO
59
G, e.g., but not H : KEY

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

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