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New York Times, Saturday, June 16, 2001

Author:
Dana Motley
Editor:
Will Shortz
2-Down : Grand ___
TotalDebutLatest
311/30/19978/16/2013
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1.5314867%
Dana Motley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {JV} This is puzzle # 10 for Ms. Motley. Saturday freshness: 6%
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© 2001, The New York Times6/16/1 ( No. 18,848 )
Across
1
Hard to understand : OPAQUE
7
Maneuver : PLOY
11
Passé platters : LPS
14
They fill some cavities : GROUTS
15
Hokkaido native : AINU
16
Dig into : EAT
17
One way to love someone : LIKEASISTER
19
Masseur's workplace, maybe : SPA
20
Way to go? : EXIT
21
Let up : EASE
22
Words starting a supposition : IFSAY
24
Dorothy Parker deliveries : ZINGERS
27
Masseur's stock : OILS
28
Succotash ingredients : LIMAS
31
Figures of speech? : ORATORS
33
The Maldives, e.g. : ATOLLS
35
Calculated-risk takers : STUNTMEN
38
Makeshift cookie cutters : TINCANS
40
Not deep-sea : INSHORE
41
Relative of Finnish : ESTONIAN
43
___ Club : SIERRA
44
Crop-raising sites : PADDIES
46
Lock : TRESS
47
Stew : FRET
49
Bay State symbol : ELMTREE
51
Charles de Gaulle's birthplace : LILLE
53
Admirer : BEAU
54
Cuba libre ingredient : COLA
58
Clay, eventually : ALI
59
Amaryllis family member : FROSTFLOWER
62
Word before "I don't know" : GEE
63
Asian tongue : THAI
64
It has a canopy : FOREST
65
Mt. Hermon locale: Abbr. : SYR
66
Swillbellies : SOTS
67
Where Marion Jones won three golds : SYDNEY
Down
1
Look accompanying a line : OGLE
2
Grand ___ : PRIX
3
1983 Hawaiian Open winner : AOKI
4
Feathered Serpent : QUETZALCOATL
5
Hagen with three Tonys : UTA
6
It's near Gelsenkirchen : ESSEN
7
Highway speedsters : PASSERS
8
Book review types : LITERATI
9
Start for step or stop : ONE
10
Cosmonaut Gagarin : YURI
11
Mies van der Rohe's motto : LESSISMORE
12
Like some bulls : PAPAL
13
Is a good dog, perhaps : STAYS
18
Verdi villain : IAGO
23
Just so you know : FORTHERECORD
25
Part of many a chain : ISLAND
26
Floors : STUNS
28
Fall-blooming, say : LATE
29
Illness's end? : ITIS
30
Winooski River city : MONTPELIER
32
Kind of training : ONSITE
34
Malicious : SNIDE
36
Transgresses : ERRS
37
Civil rights activist Ralph : NEAS
39
It's wind-driven : SAILBOAT
42
Wellington, to Napoleon : NEMESIS
45
1 out of 3, e.g. : STAT
47
Post office needs : FLAGS
48
"Little Orphant Annie" poet : RILEY
50
Trumps when unable to follow suit : RUFFS
52
Terrestrial newts : EFTS
55
"___ Wingrave" (Britten opera) : OWEN
56
___-majesté : LESE
57
Dilettantish : ARTY
60
Christogram component : RHO
61
Powell's detective film co-star : LOY

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

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