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New York Times, Thursday, September 4, 2003

Author:
Nancy Salomon and Bob Peoples
Editor:
Will Shortz
5-Down : Jet off for
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
392/11/20012/26/20116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
303011121
RebusScrabDebutFresh
21.5529785%
Bob Peoples

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 This is puzzle # 111 for Ms. Salomon. This is puzzle # 16 for Mr. Peoples. Thursday freshness: 92%
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© 2003, The New York Times9/4/3 ( No. 19,658 )
Across
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Babushka : SCARF
6
Dot-___ : COMS
10
Tel ___ : AVIV
14
Nasty and then some : CRUEL
15
Knee-slapper : HOOT
16
Home to some Sargents, with "the" : TATE
17
Fabled fall guy : HUMPTYDUMPTY
19
Biol. branch : ECOL
20
"___ lazy river ..." (Bobby Darin lyric) : UPA
21
Shoe decoration : TASSEL
22
Wheat variety : DURUM
23
Loafer, e.g. : SLIPON
25
Kind of a drag : TEDIUM
27
Dehydrated : SERE
28
1926 hit "Sleepy Time ___" : GAL
31
Hardly peppy : TORPID
34
Indian beads : WAMPUM
36
Short and thick : STUMPY
37
Ground cover : SOD
40
Slow outflow : SEEPAGE
43
"Ulalume" poet : POE
44
Two of ten : THUMBS
46
One in a black suit : SPADE
48
Birdbrains : DODOES
50
Sports officials : UMPS
51
Airy melody : LILT
55
Composer Bruckner : ANTON
57
Element in some batteries : CADMIUM
59
Let have : CEDE
61
Eastern Canadian Indian : MICMAC
64
Run up a phone bill : GAB
65
Homecoming attendees : ALUMS
66
It's a wrap : ALUMINUMFOIL
68
"On & On" singer Erykah ___ : BADU
69
Orchid products : LEIS
70
Not smooth : EROSE
71
Batter's bane : SLUMP
72
"___ She Lovely" (Stevie Wonder song) : ISNT
73
Knots : NODES
Down
1
Downhiller's run : SCHUSS
2
Ball up : CRUMPLE
3
Domestic : AUPAIR
4
Emeritus: Abbr. : RET
5
Jet off for : FLYTO
6
Buds : CHUMS
7
Klutz's cry : OOPS
8
Sacred song : MOTET
9
Doctor's lance : STYLET
10
Was humiliated : ATEDIRT
11
Big sucker : VACUUMPUMP
12
"... like ___ not!" : ITOR
13
Soft palate : VELUM
18
"I'll be a son of a gun" : DANGME
24
Backed bench : PEW
26
Gave pills to : DOSED
29
Make like : APE
30
Kind of payment : LUMPSUM
32
Nasdaq debut, maybe: Abbr. : IPO
33
Food additive : DYE
35
Holding : ASSET
37
Benchmark: Abbr. : STD
38
"So that's it!" : OHO
39
"Dragnet" signature sound : DUMDADUMDUM
41
"Killer" PC program : APP
42
Shell holder? : GASCAN
45
Studies : BONESUP
47
The past, in the past : ELD
49
Kenyan's neighbor : SOMALI
52
"No more, thanks" : IMGOOD
53
Network (with) : LIAISE
54
Spills : TUMBLES
56
Frasier's brother : NILES
58
Shrewdness : ACUMEN
59
Street fleet : CABS
60
"Raid on Entebbe" airline : ELAL
62
Chili powder ingredient : CUMIN
63
Niagara Falls feature : MIST
67
Not to : FRO

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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