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New York Times, Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Author:
Ed Early
Editor:
Will Shortz
State defense organization headed by Washington
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
557/7/19947/14/20081
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1917117442
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5419532%
Ed Early

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQWXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 40 for Mr. Early. Tuesday freshness: 28%
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© 2005, The New York Times2/22/5 ( No. 20,195 )
Across
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Retreats : HAVENS
7
Dry, as wine : SEC
10
It leaves marks on asphalt : SKID
14
Triumphant cry : IDIDIT
15
Word often said twice before "again" : TRY
16
Numbers game : KENO
17
She wed George Washington : MARTHADANDRIDGE
20
Niagara Falls' prov. : ONT
21
Karel Capek play : RUR
22
Church nooks : APSES
23
Where Washington relaxed : MOUNTVERNON
28
Wrath : IRE
29
Pi preceder : OMICRON
34
Friend in the Southwest : AMIGO
37
Forsaken : LORN
39
Ready for picking : RIPE
40
State defense organization headed by Washington : VIRGINIAMILITIA
43
Its flight attendants' greeting is "Shalom" : ELAL
44
Magician's start : ABRA
45
Word prefixed with poly- : ESTER
46
Edison's New Jersey lab locale : ROSELLE
48
"Welcome" site : MAT
49
Where Washington's forces wintered : VALLEYFORGE
55
Defense aid : ALIBI
59
Writer Fleming : IAN
60
Time Warner merger partner : AOL
61
Colonial force headed by Washington : CONTINENTALARMY
66
___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
67
Belfry flier : BAT
68
___ corpus : HABEAS
69
Faculty head : DEAN
70
Not just tear up : CRY
71
"Tristram Shandy" author : STERNE
Down
1
Televised sign in football stands : HIMOM
2
Hersey's bell town : ADANO
3
Love of artistic objects : VIRTU
4
D.C. summer clock setting : EDT
5
Fed. biomedical research agcy. : NIH
6
Deprive of food : STARVE
7
Fab Four drummer : STARR
8
Directional suffix : ERN
9
Dancer Charisse : CYD
10
Old record problem : SKIP
11
Popular sneakers : KEDS
12
"Picnic" playwright : INGE
13
Female deer : DOES
18
___ date : DUE
19
Rajah's wife : RANI
24
Carp : NIGGLE
25
"Star Trek: T.N.G." counselor : TROI
26
Bellini opera : NORMA
27
Prefix with potent : OMNI
30
"The Count of Monte ___" : CRISTO
31
Film director Martin : RITT
32
Mayberry boy : OPIE
33
Close : NEAR
34
Swear to : AVER
35
Actor O'Shea : MILO
36
Investments usually held for yrs. and yrs. : IRAS
37
Kind of suit found in a courtroom : LIBEL
38
Sculling need : OAR
41
Queen in "The Lion King" : NALA
42
Page (through) : LEAF
47
Chapter 57 : LVII
48
Avian talkers : MYNAHS
50
Needing a good brushing, say : LINTY
51
Ingest : EAT
52
Scarcer : RARER
53
Beatnik's encouragement : GOMAN
54
"Family Ties" mom : ELYSE
55
Served past : ACED
56
Oral tradition : LORE
57
"To Live and Die ___" : INLA
58
Bingo call : BTEN
62
Peacock network : NBC
63
Musical talent : EAR
64
Long.'s opposite : LAT
65
Face on a fiver : ABE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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