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New York Times, Thursday, July 5, 2001

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Down : Feminine
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Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 This is puzzle # 61 for Mr. Gordon. Thursday freshness: 89%
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MAN
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MAN
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WOMAN
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MAN
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© 2001, The New York Times7/5/1 ( No. 18,867 )
Across
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Suffix on color names : ISH
4
Shoot upward : ROCKET
10
1950, in copyrights : MCML
14
DVD maker : RCA
15
In : ATHOME
16
Role for Ingrid : ILSA
17
N.Y.C. subway inits. : IRT
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Moves suddenly : STARTS
19
Eartha Kitt role : CATWOMAN
20
Summer vacation locale : SEASHORE
22
Peter the Great, e.g. : TSAR
24
Fox's prey : HARE
25
1980 Erich Segal novel : MANWOMANANDCHILD
29
A little over half the world : WOMANKIND
31
Time, in Torino : ORA
32
___ Tomé : SAO
33
Mister : SIR
35
Deep blue : ANIL
36
Dict. listing : SYN
37
Percy Sledge hit of 1966 : WHENAMANLOVESAWOMAN
41
Star of "The Facts of Life" : RAE
42
Where E*Trade is traded: Abbr. : NYSE
43
Letter abbr. : ENC
44
Howard Hughes once controlled it : TWA
45
"Don't Bring Me Down" grp. : ELO
46
Kodak founder : EASTMAN
50
Ang Lee film, 1994 Best Foreign Film nominee : EATDRINKMANWOMAN
55
Sports org. since 1906 : NCAA
56
Unexciting : SOSO
57
Eliminates : RULESOUT
59
Place for a Christmas card : MANTEL
61
Aggravation : TSURIS
63
It might be picked apart : ORE
64
Attack : GOAT
65
City whose name is Siouan for "a good place to dig potatoes" : TOPEKA
66
End of a four-day hol., maybe : TUE
67
Mice catchers : OWLS
68
Degrades : ABASES
69
Draft org. : SSS
Down
1
Edna O'Brien or Sinéad O'Connor : IRISHWOMAN
2
Shrill sound : SCREAK
3
John Wayne film set in Africa : HATARI
4
Rubella symptom : RASH
5
Place to put the feet up : OTTOMAN
6
Office building cleaner : CHARWOMAN
7
Asian peninsula : KOREA
8
CPR performer : EMT
9
Go out and back in an Outback, perhaps : TESTDRIVE
10
Book before Nahum : MICAH
11
"___ Explains It All" (cable series) : CLARISSA
12
Phoenix setting: Abbr. : MST
13
Song and album by the Doors : LAWOMAN
21
Meaning : SENSE
23
Like a 3-4-5 triangle : SCALENE
26
Verboten thing : NONO
27
One who's not in the habit of wearing a habit : LAYWOMAN
28
Mafia leader : DON
30
Some fund-raisers : DINNERS
34
"GoodFellas" co-star : RAYLIOTTA
35
Cakes' partner : ALE
37
Electric guitar attachment : WAWA
38
Protect from the air, in a way : HEATSEAL
39
Singer Marilyn : MANSON
40
Skims : SCANS
41
Map abbr. : RTE
47
Darts : SCOOTS
48
Mother's Day baby, e.g. : TAURUS
49
Dugongs' kin : MANATEES
51
Noodleheads : DOLTS
52
Drummer Gene : KRUPA
53
Fertilizes : MANURES
54
Feminine : WOMANLIKE
58
Those, to José : ESAS
59
Tropical fruit : MANGO
60
Wrecker's job : TOW
62
Word with sister or story : SOB

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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