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New York Times, Thursday, May 2, 2002

Author:
Dave and Diane Epperson
Editor:
Will Shortz
41-Down : Rubber
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
512/13/199910/31/20025
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0300200
ScrabDebutFresh
1.541123%
Dave Epperson
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
512/13/199910/31/20025
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0300200
ScrabDebutFresh
1.541123%
Diane Epperson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JQXYZ} Spans: 2 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry. This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Epperson. This is puzzle # 4 for Ms. Epperson. Thursday freshness: 72%
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© 2002, The New York Times5/2/2 ( No. 19,168 )
Across
1
Magic practicer : SHAMAN
7
What "Bethesda" means : CHAPEL
13
Shout of praise : HOSANNA
15
Goblet : CHALICE
16
With 37- and 38-Across, a musing : IWONDERWHERETHE
18
Lap dogs : PEKES
19
Eastern "way" : TAO
20
Community spirit : ETHOS
21
"Brian's Song" or "Roots" : DOCUDRAMA
24
Big inits. in bowling : AMF
27
Historian Durant : ARIEL
28
___-Bo exercise : TAE
31
Person with a stick : MAESTRO
34
Beautyrest company : SIMMONS
37
See 16-Across : MOTHER
38
See 16-Across : BEARIS
39
They may get quarters downtown : ARCADES
41
Speech impediment? : GAGRULE
42
Govt. medical agency : NIH
43
Kind of center : REHAB
45
Sound after a puncture : SSS
46
1958 Edna Ferber novel : ICEPALACE
50
St. Teresa's town : AVILA
53
Year in the Amazon : ANO
54
"___ the loneliest number" : ONEIS
58
16-, 37- and 38-Across, e.g. : FAMOUSLASTWORDS
61
Olympic Airways founder : ONASSIS
62
Troublemaker : HELLION
63
Tenant : RENTER
64
Gauge : ASSESS
Down
1
U.P.S., say : SHIP
2
British vice admiral in the American Revolution : HOWE
3
"Dilbert" intern : ASOK
4
Like a lion : MANED
5
"___ It Goes" (Ellerbee book) : ANDSO
6
San Antonio-to-Ft. Worth dir. : NNE
7
"Evita" role : CHE
8
Women's group : HAREM
9
Prince Valiant's wife : ALETA
10
Kind of helmet : PITH
11
Off-the-wall reply : ECHO
12
Bottom of the barrel : LEES
14
Conductor Toscanini : ARTURO
15
Washing dishes, taking out the garbage, etc. : CHORES
17
Dry wash : WADI
22
Actress Tia : CARRERE
23
"Arabian Nights" hero : ALIBABA
24
Mideast capital : AMMAN
25
New Zealander : MAORI
26
Dogs do it : FETCH
28
Geometrical solid : TORUS
29
"___ Ghost" (Michael Ondaatje novel) : ANILS
30
Parts of car test courses : ESSES
32
___ Na Na : SHA
33
Film director Kotcheff : TED
35
Computer unit, for short : MEG
36
Fold, spindle or mutilate : MAR
40
Poppy parts : SEPALS
41
Rubber : GALOSH
44
Mandlikova of tennis : HANA
46
"___ My Sugar in Salt Lake City" (1943 hit) : ILOST
47
Grounds : CAUSE
48
Hooded covers : COWLS
49
Organic compounds : ENOLS
50
Get an ___ effort : AFOR
51
Turbine part : VANE
52
One-named supermodel : IMAN
55
Iroquoian Indian : ERIE
56
Union agreements? : IDOS
57
I.R.S. ID's : SSNS
59
Military address : SIR
60
Word with black or green : TEA

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

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