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New York Times, Thursday, April 24, 2003

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Down : Obstruct
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1085/21/20021/14/20184
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
81318151217619
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
431.5850462%
Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Gamache. Thursday freshness: 36%
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© 2003, The New York Times4/24/3 ( No. 19,525 )
Across
1
Kite feature : BEAK
5
Not many : AFEW
9
"Mr. Belvedere" co-star : GRAFF
14
What fans may do : YELL
15
Whopper : TALE
16
Conversation starter : HELLO
17
Allure shelfmate : ELLE
18
Harness race : TROT
19
Willow twig : OSIER
20
Phrase on the back of a buck : EPLURIBUSUNUM
23
It comes from the heart : AORTA
25
Feature of some bucks : ANTLERS
26
Phrase on the back of a buck : INGODWETRUST
30
Agnus ___ : DEI
31
Kind of palm : SAGO
32
Relative of "Oh, no!" : EGAD
36
De novo : ANEW
38
With 46-Across, phrase on the back of a buck : NOVUS
41
View from a hill : DALE
42
Between-meal bite : NOSH
43
Scratches (out) : EKES
45
PC acronym : ROM
46
See 38-Across : ORDOSECLORUM
51
Thumb one's nose at : DISDAIN
54
Stand : ABIDE
55
Phrase on the back of a buck : ANNUITCOEPTIS
59
Principal pipes : MAINS
60
Cutting the mustard : ABLE
61
Calamities : WOES
64
Loosen : UNTIE
65
Like some meat : LEAN
66
O'Neill's Christie : ANNA
67
Bad news for a crop farmer : PESTS
68
Country singer Anderson : LYNN
69
Tiny fraction of a min. : NSEC
Down
1
"Toodles!" : BYE
2
One with electric organs : EEL
3
Scratch tests test for them : ALLERGIES
4
One who lifts a lot : KLEPTO
5
Farthest of the Near Islands : ATTU
6
"M*A*S*H" actor : FARR
7
"The Time Machine" leisure class : ELOI
8
Hotel suite amenity : WETBAR
9
Some trick-or-treaters : GHOSTS
10
Ended up : RESULTED
11
Dior design : ALINE
12
Bloom in le jardin : FLEUR
13
Red tape, often : FORMS
21
Pip and others : LADS
22
Three-time Burmese prime minister : UNU
23
Quinn of "Blink" : AIDAN
24
Informal bridge bid : ONENO
27
Blanched : WAN
28
It may be easily bruised : EGO
29
Carroll's "slithy" ones : TOVES
33
Posts for privates : GARRISONS
34
One way to think : ALOUD
35
"The Silence of the Lambs" director : DEMME
37
Edgar Award candidate : WHODUNIT
39
It's plucked in Polynesia : UKE
40
Wine label word : SEC
44
Blind segment : SLAT
47
Ups : RAISES
48
Telegraphic click : DIT
49
Available : ONCALL
50
Alec played him in "Star Wars" : OBIWAN
51
Obstruct : DAMUP
52
Cockamamie : INANE
53
Foul moods : SNITS
56
Follow : OBEY
57
Flair : ELAN
58
___ Station : PENN
62
Route abbr. : ENE
63
Egg holder, of sorts : SAC

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

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