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New York Times, Thursday, May 22, 2003

Author:
Dan Reichert
Editor:
Will Shortz
44-Down : Buy in a hurry
TotalDebutLatest
41/26/20002/8/2007
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
21.481518%
Dan Reichert

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Reichert. Thursday freshness: 1%
Jim Horne notes:

MAN + MAN needs to be read as MEN.

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D
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I
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V
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A
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T
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A
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T
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A
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S
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T
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P
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B
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P
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Y
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MAN
MAN
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M
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H
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S
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O
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N
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A
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E
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A
U
T
O
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L
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D
E
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R
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MAN
MAN
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S
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T
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P
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G
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U
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MAN
MAN
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B
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A
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B
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© 2003, The New York Times5/22/3 ( No. 19,553 )
Across
1
Leading lady : DIVA
5
It's said when taking off : TATA
9
Take off : STRIP
14
Kaffiyeh sporter : ARAB
15
Score after deuce : ADIN
16
People concerned with feet : POETS
17
President Taft's alma mater : YALE
18
It may be driven during a storm : SAND
19
Namely : IDEST
20
Like a line : ONEDIMENSIONAL
23
Coll. hoops competition : NIT
24
Beam : RAY
25
Place for a shore dinner, maybe : MARINA
29
Height enhancer : HEEL
31
"Listen, ___ ..." : SON
34
"The Brady Bunch" housekeeper : ALICE
35
Self-starter? : AUTO
36
Ear piece : LOBE
37
They're packed during the holidays : DEPARTMENTSTORES
40
Suffix for high-tech gadgets : TRON
41
Groundless : IDLE
42
Take forcefully : WREST
43
Teutonic name part : VON
44
Don't take off : STAY
45
Sky pilots, so to speak : PADRES
46
Animal with a mane : GNU
47
Hegelian article : EIN
48
Hit Broadway play of 1945, with "The" : GLASSMENAGERIE
55
Walk together : TROOP
57
___ end : ATAN
58
Major gold-mining area, with "the" : RAND
59
Certain backwater : BAYOU
60
Member of an instrument family : ALTO
61
Fizzy wine, familiarly : ASTI
62
59-Across relative : SWAMP
63
Wax makers : BEES
64
One that gets tongue-tied? : SHOE
Down
1
Harry Belafonte catchword : DAYO
2
Home of many mullahs : IRAN
3
Hollow between hills : VALE
4
Not up yet : ABED
5
State adjoining the Bass Strait : TASMANIA
6
Unlikely to reconsider : ADAMANT
7
Pantry containers : TINS
8
"___ quote ..." : ANDI
9
Like some injuries : SPINAL
10
Now : TODAY
11
Whirl : REEL
12
Possessive pronoun : ITS
13
Hrs. in the West : PST
21
Private : INNER
22
Lunchbox treats : OREOS
25
Show with skits : MADTV
26
Olds model : ALERO
27
Really tease : RIPON
28
Self-confident assertion : ICAN
29
By any practical means : HUMANLY
30
Ranch add-on? : ETTE
31
More tender : SORER
32
Past plump : OBESE
33
Egg holders : NESTS
35
Heather's "Melrose Place" role : AMANDA
36
Powerful person : LORD
38
Shakespeare's Andronicus : TITUS
39
Nashville sound? : TWANG
44
Buy in a hurry : SNAPUP
45
"Grand" things : PIANOS
46
Opposite of cheer : GLOOM
47
Spring (from) : EMANATE
48
Maja painter : GOYA
49
General Motors division : SAAB
50
Famed "7" wearer : MANTLE
51
Times to remember : ERAS
52
Ill-considered : RASH
53
Turned on by : INTO
54
Falco of "The Sopranos" : EDIE
55
Cable's Superstation : TBS
56
Like some deals : RAW

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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