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New York Times, Wednesday, October 2, 2002

Author:
Eric Berlin
Editor:
Will Shortz
63-Down : D.E.A. agent: Var.
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
436/23/200211/29/20203
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RebusCircleScrabblePGramFresh
361.52168%
Eric Berlin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Berlin. Wednesday freshness: 91%
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C
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© 2002, The New York Times10/2/2 ( No. 19,321 )
Across
1
Butts : CIGS
5
BAFFIN BAY SIGHT : BERG
9
"Family Ties" mother : ELYSE
14
ANTLERED BEAST : HART
15
You might get your mitts on it : OVEN
16
Rifles : LOOTS
17
Painter Nolde : EMIL
18
"Le Roi d'Ys" composer : LALO
19
Shivering fits : AGUES
20
With 59-Across, what the answers to the 11 capitalized clues begin : FAMOUSNAMES
23
San Antonio-to-Dallas dir. : NNE
24
Durham sch. : UNH
25
Arlington landmark : PENTAGON
27
Brandy flavor : APRICOT
31
___-crazy : STIR
32
Test-taker's last resort : GUESSING
34
Squids' kin : OCTOPI
38
OPPOSITE OF 11-DOWN : OLD
39
MARGARINE CONTAINER : TUB
41
ANGLER'S BUY : ROD
42
Menacing look : GLOWER
46
Infamous W.W. I name : MATAHARI
50
Canned : AXED
52
Ending of fame or fortune : SILENTE
53
More cheerful : CHIRPIER
57
One of the Bobbsey twins : NAN
58
Put on : DON
59
See 20-Across : ENDINGINMAN
64
Winter Olympics athlete : LUGER
66
Sch. with a branch in Berkeley : UCAL
67
Seat of Allen County, Kan. : IOLA
68
Atoll component : ISLET
69
___ SLAW : COLE
70
Tip or hip follower : STER
71
Swerves : VEERS
72
Whaler's direction : THAR
73
ATTEMPT A BREAK-IN : HACK
Down
1
White hat wearer : CHEF
2
"___ Camera" : IAMA
3
Hardly rosy : GRIM
4
Bowling Hall of Fame location : STLOUIS
5
Moscow theater : BOLSHOI
6
Sen. Bayh of Indiana : EVAN
7
Pass again on the track : RELAP
8
Folklore figures : GNOMES
9
Like a bungee cord : ELASTIC
10
Journal : LOG
11
IN ONE'S SALAD DAYS : YOUNG
12
Pad user : STENO
13
Krupp Works city : ESSEN
21
Aunties' husbands : UNCS
22
Within: Prefix : ENTO
26
Know-how : ART
27
Bug-eyed : AGOG
28
SWAY, SO TO SPEAK : PULL
29
Fix up : REDO
30
Explosive : TNT
33
Bazooka, e.g. : GUM
35
"The Plague" setting : ORAN
36
35-DOWN IS ONE : PORT
37
"And if ___ before ..." : IDIE
40
Undergrad degs. : BAS
43
Children's card game : WAR
44
Brain trust members : EXPERTS
45
Bridle part : REIN
47
Cause of a prickly feeling : TINGLER
48
Jai ___ : ALAI
49
Brooding? : HENNISH
51
Count expenses when figuring taxes : DEDUCT
53
454, in old Rome : CDLIV
54
IT MAY BE OPEN OR SAFE : HOUSE
55
Fireplace : INGLE
56
Xerox competitor : RICOH
60
"The Lion King" lioness : NALA
61
Baseballer Manny : MOTA
62
Smart ___ : ALEC
63
D.E.A. agent: Var. : NARK
65
Poetic contraction : EER

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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