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New York Times, Thursday, February 17, 2005

Author:
Patrick Merrell
Editor:
Will Shortz
16-Across : Area of expertise
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RebusCircleScrabblePGramFresh
551.61446%
Patrick Merrell

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQYZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 41 for Mr. Merrell. Thursday freshness: 73%
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© 2005, The New York Times2/17/5 ( No. 20,190 )
Across
1
Attention getter : PSST
5
Former company with a globelike logo : PANAM
10
Pronto : ASAP
14
Start of a treasure hunt instruction : GOTO
15
Bone cavities : ANTRA
16
Area of expertise : LINE
17
Mercutio and Roméo, in Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" : AMIS
18
Stay away : STEERCLEAR
20
Makes a cross for, maybe : BLESSES
22
Twisted, in a way : IRONIC
23
React badly : BREAKOUTINARASH
25
Like many a gen. or maj. : RET
26
AOL, e.g. : ISP
27
Catch : BAG
28
"The ___ the Deal" : ARTOF
30
Pro in the sticks : FER
31
Popular Don : IMUS
35
Digress : GOOFFONATANGENT
39
___ prof. : ASST
40
Unpleasant illness : POX
41
Broadcasting : ONAIR
42
Credit card no. : APR
43
"Red state" grp. : GOP
45
F.D.R. plan : TVA
46
What "Pay Toll 1 Mile" implies : SLOWDOWNUPAHEAD
52
Trojan leader who survived the fall of Troy : AENEAS
53
Like a defendant : ONTRIAL
54
They fill pressing needs : STEAMIRONS
56
Powerful engine : VTEN
58
Abba of Israel : EBAN
59
C.I.A. director under Clinton and Bush : TENET
60
Opposite of morns : EENS
61
Sch. periods : SEMS
62
Start of the year, to a 63-Across : ENERO
63
Mex. title : SRTA
Down
1
Sports org. since 1916 : PGA
2
Big tops : SOMBREROS
3
Daggers : STILETTOS
4
Where ships go : TOSEA
5
Author John Dos ___ : PASSOS
6
Get in the game : ANTEUP
7
Event outlawed by intl. treaty : NTEST
8
It may come after you : ARE
9
Pasta topper : MARINARA
10
___ nothing : ALLOR
11
Tuscan city : SIENA
12
Diarist Nin : ANAIS
13
Bar in a cage : PERCH
19
Rock climber's handhold : CRAG
21
Solo racing boat : SKIFF
23
Sonia of "Kiss of the Spider Woman" : BRAGA
24
"Oh, sure!" : IBET
29
Thomas Moore poem "___ in the Stilly Night" : OFT
30
Quick message : FAX
31
Starter: Abbr. : IGN
32
Coyote, e.g. : MEATEATER
33
Unpaired, as a chromosome : UNIVALENT
34
Pricey set of strings : STRAD
36
Like the prepositions in 23-, 35- and 46-Across : OPPOSITE
37
Swed. butter? : NORW
38
Kind of stock : NOPAR
42
Grandfather of Enos : ADAM
43
Artillery unit member : GUNNER
44
Decides one will : OPTSTO
46
Postal conveniences: Abbr. : SASES
47
Not touch : LETBE
48
When "S.N.L." ends : ONEAM
49
Gradually removes : WEANS
50
Who discovers the perfect crime : NOONE
51
Sign of an allergy : HIVES
55
TV chihuahua : REN
57
Hush-hush grp. : NSA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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