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New York Times, Thursday, July 22, 2004

Author:
Greg Staples
Editor:
Will Shortz
63-Down : Game with a 108-card deck
TotalDebutLatest
257/4/19997/22/2004
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.5210227%
Greg Staples

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {GJQX} This is puzzle # 25 for Mr. Staples. Thursday freshness: 21%
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© 2004, The New York Times7/22/4 ( No. 19,980 )
Across
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Artist Chagall : MARC
5
Put on hold : SHELVE
11
Internet letters, and a hint to this puzzle's theme : WWW
14
It's sold in bars : OLEO
15
Two-legged salamander : MUDEEL
16
Source of heat : IRE
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Nirvana, essentially? : HINDUUTOPIA
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Potassium hydroxide : LYE
20
Right and left : SIDES
21
Anonymous : UNNAMED
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Dealership that sells old Troopers? : ISUZUUSEDCARS
27
Handsome prints? : ART
29
Easy win : ROMP
30
It ends in Oct. : DST
31
Question from Miss Piggy : MOI
32
Tissue: Suffix : PLASM
34
Handwriting on the wall : OMEN
38
Hollywood favorite : IDOL
40
Socialite Brooke : ASTOR
42
Memorization technique : ROTE
43
Withhold from : DENY
44
Vaughan of jazz : SARAH
46
"On the double!" : NOW
47
___ draft : NBA
50
"Au revoir!" : TATA
51
Small colonist : ANT
52
Long forks, for example? : FONDUUTENSILS
57
1967 Oscar winner Parsons : ESTELLE
58
Toys sometimes stuck in trees : KITES
61
Shoe part : TOE
62
Certain Hawaiian instrument? : OAHUUKULELE
66
2002 British Open champion : ELS
67
Freud's home : VIENNA
68
Number for one : ARIA
69
Shooting site : SET
70
Went for a bite : ATEOUT
71
Dermatologist's concern : CYST
Down
1
Mineral hardness scale inventor : MOHS
2
Others, in Latin : ALII
3
Certain delivery : RENDITION
4
They may be cracked : CODES
5
Western Athletic Conf. school : SMU
6
Home for a hermit : HUT
7
Shogun's capital : EDO
8
Constellation known as the Hare : LEPUS
9
Like marble : VEINED
10
Herd in Africa : ELANDS
11
Buck Rogers's lady friend : WILMA
12
More twisted : WRYER
13
Groundskeeper's bane : WEEDS
18
Assume : USURP
22
One with a part : ACTOR
24
Defender of Manet's work : ZOLA
25
Minutemen of coll. sports : UMASS
26
Like Albany and Chicago : UPSTATE
27
In the thick of : AMID
28
Went on : RODE
33
Capone rival known as Bugs : MORAN
35
Quiet home, usually : MONASTERY
36
Royal educator : ETON
37
Witches' brew necessity : NEWT
39
Old "Hollywood Squares" regular : LYNDE
41
"Doggoneit!" : RATS
45
Three-line work : HAIKU
48
"One great face deserves another" sloganeer, once : BULOVA
49
Café specification : AULAIT
52
Swanky dos : FETES
53
"___ Mio" : OSOLE
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Explosive trial : NTEST
55
Snicker : TEHEE
56
Purple shade : LILAC
59
George and George W., e.g. : ELIS
60
Musical chairs goal : SEAT
63
Game with a 108-card deck : UNO
64
Burma's first P.M. : UNU
65
Kit ___ : KAT

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4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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