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New York Times, Wednesday, April 10, 2002

Author:
Gregory Casagrande
Editor:
Will Shortz
40-Down : Cover the floor anew
TotalDebut
14/10/2002
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.55433%
Gregory Casagrande

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QYZ} Spans: 3 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Casagrande. Wednesday freshness: 51%
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© 2002, The New York Times4/10/2 ( No. 19,146 )
Across
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Polish partner? : SPIT
5
Figure for negotiation : OFFER
10
Blue books? : SMUT
14
Epitaph starter : HERE
15
1965 King arrest site : SELMA
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It's said with a raised hand : OATH
17
Color combo #1: Communist Beatles movie? : ORANGESUBMARINE
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"Beats me!" : DUNNO
21
Town officials in New England : SELECTMEN
22
Not playing : IDLE
24
Organic suffix : ENE
25
Bumps : JARS
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The same : IDEM
30
Volumes : TOMES
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Whiz : ACE
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Wear a puss : POUT
37
Strauss opera : SALOME
38
Color combo #2: Depressed Beantown nine? : BOSTONPURPLESOX
41
Curtain call eliciters : BRAVOS
42
Agnus ___ (religious figures) : DEIS
43
Nice warm days? : ETE
44
Menachem's co-Nobelist : ANWAR
45
It may be stacked : DECK
46
Husky's burden : SLED
47
Millennium start : MMI
49
Long, long time : AEON
51
Art expert, at times : APPRAISER
56
Stir up : ROUSE
60
Color combo #3: Cowardly IBM and GE shares? : GREENCHIPSTOCKS
62
Hamlet or Ophelia : ROLE
63
Coty and Clair : RENES
64
401(k), e.g. : PLAN
65
Took off on : APED
66
"Golden Boy" dramatist : ODETS
67
Gorge : SATE
Down
1
Rough finish? : SHOD
2
Big copper exporter : PERU
3
Qom home : IRAN
4
It has its faults : TENNIS
5
Sugar suffix : OSE
6
Came clean : FESSEDUP
7
Smoke conveyor : FLUE
8
Bull moose, to Roosevelt : EMBLEM
9
Clear soup : RAMEN
10
Categorize : SORT
11
Hurt : MAIM
12
___ Reader (eclectic magazine) : UTNE
13
That time : THEN
18
Word in a 16-Across : GOD
19
Colorless solvents : ACETALS
23
Side in a Colosseum battle : LIONS
25
Obese "Star Wars" character : JABBA
26
___ squash : ACORN
27
Further shorten : RESAW
29
Musical exercise : ETUDE
31
Comedic Olsen : OLE
32
Metz's river : MOSEL
33
Act badly? : EMOTE
34
Popular high school class, informally : SEXED
36
Have-not : POORMAN
37
Shoot up : SPIKE
39
F.D.R. project: Abbr. : TVA
40
Cover the floor anew : RECARPET
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Gossiped : DISHED
46
Nosy Parkers : SNOOPS
48
Film intro? : MICRO
50
Scrap : ORT
51
City on the Jumna : AGRA
52
Play thing : PROP
53
Former Cosmos star : PELE
54
Harmonium part : REED
55
"___ kleine Nachtmusik" : EINE
57
Bruins' home : UCLA
58
32-card game : SKAT
59
Crossword worker? : ESNE
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Old lottery org. : SSS

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

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