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New York Times, Thursday, April 22, 2004

Author:
Daniel C. Bryant
Editor:
Will Shortz
62-Down : Birth control method, for short
TotalDebutLatest
94/22/20047/6/2014
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CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.589466%
Daniel C. Bryant

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JKV} Spans: 2 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Bryant. Thursday freshness: 48%
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© 2004, The New York Times4/22/4 ( No. 19,889 )
Across
1
Oil company acronym : ARCO
5
Univ. dorm supervisors : RAS
8
Opening word? : SESAME
14
One receiving orders : CHEF
15
Dug in : ENTRENCHED
17
First line of a couplet pertinent to this puzzle : TICTACTOEISAMID
19
Prefix with sex : UNI
20
War story : ILIAD
21
Word with buff or buffa : OPERA
22
Guiding light : POLARIS
24
"I ___ you!" : DARE
26
Many a drive-thru feature : ATM
27
Failing grades : EFS
28
Great Laker : SHAQ
32
It's good for the teeth : GEARBOXOIL
36
Stout : ALE
37
Raft material : BALSA
38
Poison warning : XXX
39
Greenfly, e.g. : APHID
41
Ammo belt accompanier : UZI
42
Chemical substance that hastens aging : PROOXIDANT
45
Boom support : MAST
47
Mary ___ Evans (George Eliot's real name) : ANN
48
Sound investments, for short : CDS
49
Old Dodge : OMNI
51
Buckeyes : OHIOANS
55
It's a wrap : STOLE
58
Start of a children's rhyme : ABCDE
60
Baby's first word : GOO
61
End of the couplet : WORDSINTHISGRID
64
"Really?" : AREYOUSURE
65
Costa ___, Calif. : MESA
66
One of Paul Revere's message options : BYLAND
67
China's Sun Yat-___ : SEN
68
Starts (off) : TEES
Down
1
Misbehave : ACTUP
2
Zoo heavyweight : RHINO
3
Rhodes of Rhodesia : CECIL
4
"___ in the Stilly Night" (Thomas Moore lyric) : OFT
5
Go over again : RECLIMB
6
Nay sayers : ANTIS
7
Portico : STOA
8
Tre + tre : SEI
9
TV journalist David : ENSOR
10
Scenic views, briefly : SCAPES
11
Woeful words : AHME
12
Former Israeli P.M. : MEIR
13
13th-century literary work : EDDA
16
Comedian born John Elroy Sanford : REDDFOXX
18
Curved pipe feature : AIRTRAP
23
Motorists' clubs, in brief : AAAS
25
Faulkner's "___ Lay Dying" : ASI
27
1-Across competitor : EXXON
29
Otto who helped discover nuclear fission : HAHN
30
Settled : ALIT
31
Logical conclusion : QED
32
Where Samson died : GAZA
33
The Bushes, collegiately : ELIS
34
Clinton and Blair, for two : OXONIANS
35
Boys : LADDIES
37
Cadge : BUM
40
El ___, Tex. : PASO
43
Amounted (to) : RAN
44
Motto of the Prince of Wales : ICHDIEN
46
"See?!" : TOLDYA
50
Quark plus antiquark : MESON
51
Earth tone : OCHRE
52
Match : AGREE
53
It may be white : NOISE
54
Tonics, to some : SODAS
55
Tar : SWAB
56
Naturalist Roger ___ Peterson : TORY
57
Russian city on the Oka : OREL
59
Heater stats : BTUS
62
Birth control method, for short : IUD
63
You can set your watch by it: Abbr. : GMT

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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