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New York Times, Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Author:
Kumar Balani
Editor:
Will Shortz
47-Down : Smashed windows, maybe
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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Kumar Balani

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Balani. Wednesday freshness: 66%
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© 2002, The New York Times5/15/2 ( No. 19,181 )
Across
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Stick on a spit : IMPALE
7
"M" director Fritz : LANG
11
Sun. speech : SER
14
Shop worker : TOOLER
15
Takeoff artist : APER
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___ polloi : HOI
17
Lawgivers : SOLONS
18
900-line psychic Miss ___ : CLEO
19
It may be worn under a tunicle : ALB
20
"It's getting late!" abroad? : IHATETORUSSIA
23
Kofi ___ Annan : ATTA
25
CD-___ : ROM
26
Kind of star : NATAL
27
Token of welcome : LEI
28
It may be taken with a raised hand : VOW
30
Nothing, at a poker table : BADHAND
32
Upper-left key : ESC
33
"Tristia" poet : OVID
35
Long distance letters : MCI
36
"What'll you have?" abroad? : HOWCANISERBIA
41
Morsel for Dobbin : OAT
42
Taunt : GIBE
43
It's twice-eaten : CUD
45
Rushed violently : HURTLED
49
Old saying : SAW
50
Old NOW cause : ERA
51
Early computer : ENIAC
52
O'Hare monitor abbr. : ETA
54
Go to and fro : SWAY
55
"Baloney!" abroad? : IDONOTBOLIVIA
59
Crackpot : NUT
60
Horse of different colors : ROAN
61
Ringmaster's place : BIGTOP
64
___ de France : ILE
65
Two tablets, say : DOSE
66
"Psst!" follower, perhaps : INHERE
67
Days of yore : ELD
68
Agenda, informally : SKED
69
Excessive : DETROP
Down
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T.G.I.F. part : ITS
2
Lea call : MOO
3
Many a conventiongoer : POLITICO
4
Hilo hello : ALOHA
5
Yakutsk's river : LENA
6
Once, once : ERST
7
Milk: Prefix : LACTO
8
Poise : APLOMB
9
Not e'en once : NEER
10
Airline gang : GROUNDCREW
11
Cascades peak : SHASTA
12
Windblown : EOLIAN
13
Like Playboy cartoons : RIBALD
21
Stu of early TV : ERWIN
22
Mumbai master : SAHIB
23
Schooner filler : ALE
24
New Ager John : TESH
28
Coloratura's asset : VOCALCORDS
29
Humpty Dumpty-shaped : OVATE
31
Pseudopod former : AMEBA
34
Understand, slangily : DIG
37
Odin, to the Germans : WOTAN
38
Hemp source : SISAL
39
Diner freebie : ICEWATER
40
Pervasive quality : AURA
44
Dennis or Doris : DAY
45
Tush : HEINIE
46
Exciting : UNDULL
47
Smashed windows, maybe : RIOTED
48
Adulterate : DEBASE
53
Got into shape : TONED
54
Aid in aiming : SIGHT
56
Captured : TOOK
57
Term paper abbr. : IBID
58
Tarzan's transport : VINE
62
Montana motto starter : ORO
63
Zip : PEP

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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