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New York Times, Tuesday, June 26, 2001

Author:
Stephen Windheim
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Down : Takes more Time?
TotalDebut
16/26/2001
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0010000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.4931%
Stephen Windheim

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Windheim. Tuesday freshness: 1%
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© 2001, The New York Times6/26/1 ( No. 18,858 )
Across
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Burrito filler : BEEF
5
Send out : EMIT
9
Brown ermine : STOAT
14
Bowser's bowlful : ALPO
15
Sari wearer : RANI
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Blood carrier : AORTA
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Shipping method : RAIL
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Pay to play : ANTE
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Out-and-out : UTTER
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1965 Beatles #1 hit : TICKETTORIDE
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Santa ___ winds : ANA
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Rocky hill : TOR
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Light-footed : NIMBLE
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Shakespeare's Sir Toby : BELCH
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It has a low pH : ACID
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Cousin of a puffin : AUK
35
Start of long-distance dialing : ONE
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Friendly : AMICABLE
40
A nod could express it : TACITAPPROVAL
43
48-card game : PINOCHLE
44
"What a good boy ___!" : AMI
45
Giant Hall-of-Famer : OTT
46
Altar site : APSE
48
Mystery writer's award : EDGAR
52
Skull-and-crossbones stuff : POISON
55
Jazzman Adderley : NAT
57
Cause of wrinkles : AGE
58
Part of a Pope poem : TOERRISHUMAN
62
Scroll in an ark : TORAH
65
Yankee nickname : YOGI
66
Baptism or bris : RITE
67
Orléans's river : LOIRE
68
The avenging Mrs. Peel : EMMA
69
Once more : ANEW
70
Having secret marks, maybe : CODED
71
Reach across : SPAN
72
Result of downsizing : LESS
Down
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Toper's total : BARTAB
2
"Seinfeld" gal : ELAINE
3
Like DeMille films : EPICAL
4
Coffeehouse music : FOLK
5
Poetry Muse : ERATO
6
"Om," e.g. : MANTRA
7
Keen about : INTO
8
Echelon : TIER
9
King Fahd, for one : SAUDI
10
Family emblem : TOTEM
11
Food scrap : ORT
12
Scarfed down : ATE
13
La Brea goo : TAR
21
Like Archie Bunker's humor : ETHNIC
22
Mrs. Gandhi : INDIRA
26
Rum cake : BABA
27
Slow period : LULL
28
___ out a win : EKE
30
Chanel of fashion : COCO
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Dynamic Duo's garb : CAPES
33
Babysitter's handful : IMP
36
Odorless gas : ETHANE
38
Arrives à la the Iceman : COMETH
39
Rah-rah : AVID
40
Former Yugoslavian president : TITO
41
Lock opener? : ANTI
42
Chalet site : ALP
43
Half of a store-owning duo : POP
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Something inexplicable : ENIGMA
49
Street girl : GAMINE
50
Playing marbles : AGATES
51
Takes more Time? : RENEWS
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It may be glassy or icy : STARE
54
Marveled aloud : OOHED
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Like 60% of the world's people : ASIAN
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Whiskeys : RYES
60
Easy win : ROMP
61
Russia's ___ Mountains : URAL
62
Special touch, in brief : TLC
63
A winning combination in today's puzzle theme : OOO
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Purge : RID

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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