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New York Times, Tuesday, June 1, 2004

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Down : Critic Barnes
TotalDebutLatest
15411/22/19939/1/2024
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1425262552948
RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.5550233%
Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {GJQXZ} This is puzzle # 101 for Mr. Piscop. Tuesday freshness: 52%
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© 2004, The New York Times6/1/4 ( No. 19,929 )
Across
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Verboten: Var. : TABU
5
Boats' backbones : KEELS
10
"The Nazarene" writer Sholem : ASCH
14
Park and Lexington, e.g., in N.Y.C. : AVES
15
Decorated Murphy : AUDIE
16
Starlet's goal : ROLE
17
Ceremony for inventors : PATENTRITE
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In alignment : TRUE
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Off the track : ASTRAY
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Rankled : FESTERED
23
Lager holder : STEIN
24
Burlesque star Lili St. ___ : CYR
25
One of Alcott's "Little Women" : AMY
26
Jean Arp's art : DADA
28
Stair part : RISER
31
Greeting for a villain : HISS
34
Holy Iraqi : IMAM
37
In reserve : ASIDE
38
Bat material : ASH
39
Is headed for a fall : TEETERS
41
Baseball rarity : TIE
42
Ill will : SPITE
44
Lantern-jawed celeb : LENO
45
Hide's partner : SEEK
46
High-strung : HYPER
47
Shiites or Amish : SECT
49
Easy card game : WAR
50
Place to relax : SPA
52
Sophisticates they're not : HICKS
56
Soak through : PERMEATE
59
Coin flipper's phrase : CALLIT
60
"How sweet ___!" : ITIS
61
Low-cal beer in reserve? : BACKUPLITE
63
Ides of March rebuke : ETTU
64
Actor Delon : ALAIN
65
In perpetuity : EVER
66
Leak slowly : SEEP
67
Jack who was famously frugal : BENNY
68
Laura of "I Am Sam" : DERN
Down
1
Spanish appetizers : TAPAS
2
Sailor's "Stop!" : AVAST
3
Midler of stage and screen : BETTE
4
Cyber-handles : USERIDS
5
Name in a stuttered 1918 song title : KATY
6
Where Lux. is : EUR
7
Uplift spiritually : EDIFY
8
Pepsi bottle amount : LITER
9
Meets, as a bet : SEES
10
Sister of Apollo : ARTEMIS
11
Bad place to build? : SORRYSITE
12
Whodunit board game : CLUE
13
Pay mind to : HEED
18
"Peter Pan" dog : NANA
22
Gogol's "___ Bulba" : TARAS
24
Caravan beast : CAMEL
27
Conk out : DIE
29
Falco of "The Sopranos" : EDIE
30
Need a bath badly : REEK
31
Dish that's "slung" : HASH
32
Culp/Cosby TV series : ISPY
33
Word processor for sailors? : SHIPWRITE
35
Munched on : ATE
36
Brainy group : MENSA
39
___ Haute, Ind. : TERRE
40
Sturgeon delicacy : ROE
43
Joins forces (with) : TEAMSUP
45
Silenced : STILLED
48
Crack from the cold : CHAP
50
Played out : STALE
51
Praline nut : PECAN
53
Critic Barnes : CLIVE
54
Check falsifier : KITER
55
Howard of morning radio : STERN
56
They're cut into wedges : PIES
57
Sermon ending? : ETTE
58
Simple rhyme scheme : ABAB
59
Big Apple college inits. : CUNY
62
They're related : KIN

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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