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New York Times, Friday, May 21, 2004

Author:
Eric Berlin
Editor:
Will Shortz
3-Down : Possible rebuttal in a childish argument
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Eric Berlin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 31 Missing: {JQXYZ} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Berlin. Friday freshness: 70%
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© 2004, The New York Times5/21/4 ( No. 19,918 )
Across
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Title character in an Aesop fable : ANDROCLES
10
Palace, in Hindi : MAHAL
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Modern mall feature : FOODCOURT
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Ancient mall : AGORA
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Person of some account : TREASURER
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Domestic comedy of 1983 : MRMOM
19
"The X-Files" topics, for short : ETS
20
Discontinued coin : PESETA
22
Record label inits. : EMI
23
Maintains, as a violin : ROSINS
26
Coupling : TIE
27
Bruno, e.g. : SAN
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Conned : SNOWED
29
Letters at Camp Lejeune : USMC
31
Fundraising grp. : PTA
32
Exceedingly, with "so" : EVER
34
"King Kong" attire : APESUIT
36
Boxing outcome? : STORAGE
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Never : NOTONCE
40
Wife of Theseus : PHAEDRA
41
1856 Stowe novel : DRED
42
Cry sometimes made with hands on one's head : EEK
43
River known anciently as Obringa : AARE
45
On the right and left : AROUND
49
Alternative to Pl. or Ct. : CIR
50
The 21st, e.g.: Abbr. : CEN
51
Actress Kazan : LAINIE
52
First name in tyranny : IDI
53
Monthly : MENSAL
55
Capitol V.I.P. : SEN
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Backed : AIDED
58
Befuddle : DISORIENT
61
Seating sections : LOGES
62
Baroque : ELABORATE
63
Inscribed stone : STELE
64
New in the area, maybe : RESETTLED
Down
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Dessert, in Dover : AFTERS
2
Trixie of 1950's TV : NORTON
3
Possible rebuttal in a childish argument : DOESSO
4
Food stat. : RDA
5
It turns out lts. : OCS
6
Fancy finishes : COUPSDEGRACE
7
Loss leader, e.g. : LURE
8
1974 hit subtitled "Touch the Wind" : ERESTU
9
Singer with the 1980 #1 album "Guilty" : STREISAND
10
"Oh, ___!" : MAMA
11
Cabinet dept. : AGR
12
Folksy : HOMESPUN
13
Like roses : AROMATIC
14
Protect, in a way : LAMINATE
21
Part of the brain associated with memory : TEMPORALLOBE
24
"If ___ you ..." : IWERE
25
Place name that in Spanish means "covered in snow" : NEVADA
30
It's usually abbreviated "c." : CETERA
33
See 48-Down : REARENDER
35
"Same here!" : SODOI
36
They might be written on a blackboard : SPECIALS
37
Classic 1868 novel set in St. Petersburg : THEIDIOT
38
City west of Knoxville : OAKRIDGE
44
Store on a farm : ENSILE
46
Open : UNSEAL
47
Nothing, in Napoli : NIENTE
48
Like a car, after a 33-Down : DENTED
53
Stock: Abbr. : MDSE
54
Botanist Gray and others : ASAS
57
Unagi, at a sushi bar : EEL
59
Go bad : ROT
60
N.Y.C. subway : IRT

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

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