NY Times, Mon, Jul 21, 2003

Author: Andrea Carla Michaels / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { X Z }, Scrabble score: 333 (avg 1.78)
Open squares: 75, Cheater squares: 0, Freshness Factor™: 58.7, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 2 of 18 for Ms. Michaels — solos: 12, collaborations: 6, Sundays: 1

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1. Kiss : SMACK
6. Tool building : SHED
10. Butcher's or bakery : SHOP
14. Process in a blender : PUREE
15. Sampras or Rose : PETE
16. Place to see 20th-century paintings in N.Y. : MOMA
17. Philanthropist Brooke ___ : ASTOR
18. Grad : ALUM
19. Sign on a store door : OPEN
20. "Royal" action film, 2002 : THESCORPIONKING
23. "___ Haw" : HEE
24. Yo-yo or Slinky : TOY
25. Corsage flower : ORCHID
29. Brother of Abel : CAIN
31. "Camelot" president, for short : JFK
34. U. S. Grant's foe : RELEE
35. Angel's headgear : HALO
36. Prefix with commuting : TELE
37. "Royal" Bogart/Hepburn film, 1951 : THEAFRICANQUEEN
40. Knife handle : HAFT
41. Grades 1-12, for short : ELHI
42. Let loose, as pigs : UNPEN
43. No longer used: Abbr. : OBS
44. Over hill and ___ : DALE
45. Like bread dough : YEASTY
46. Brief instant : SEC
47. Hurry : HIE
48. "Royal" film based on a classic children's story, 1974 : THELITTLEPRINCE
57. Maui dance : HULA
58. Nest eggs for seniors: Abbr. : IRAS
59. Bottled water from France : EVIAN
60. Egyptian fertility goddess : ISIS
61. On-the-hour radio offering : NEWS
62. Extremely successful, slangily : SOCKO
63. Old Iranian leader : SHAH
64. Heredity carrier : GENE
65. Deuce takers : TREYS
1. Small fight : SPAT
2. Sled dog command : MUSH
3. Johnson of TV's "Laugh-In" : ARTE
4. Corporate heads, for short : CEOS
5. Woman's head cover : KERCHIEF
6. Extra : SPARE
7. Aid : HELP
8. Needle case : ETUI
9. Drop from major to captain, say : DEMOTION
10. Great ___ Mountains National Park : SMOKY
11. Pueblo Indian : HOPI
12. Augur : OMEN
13. Sharp pain, as from hunger : PANG
21. Multivolume ref. : OED
22. Oui's opposite : NON
25. Right: Prefix : ORTHO
26. Addict's program, in short : REHAB
27. Heads of staffs? : CLEFS
28. Furnace output : HEAT
29. Hidden stash : CACHE
30. Jai ___ : ALAI
31. Army vehicles : JEEPS
32. Navy unit : FLEET
33. Singer Rogers : KENNY
35. San Francisco's Nob ___ : HILL
36. Sandwich fish : TUNA
38. Responding (to) : REACTING
39. Most odd : QUEEREST
44. Agnus ___ : DEI
45. Puppy sound : YIP
46. / : SLASH
47. "Steppenwolf" author : HESSE
48. 1950's TV's "___ Is Your Life" : THIS
49. Silence : HUSH
50. Director Kazan : ELIA
51. Elm or oak : TREE
52. Place for an Easter egg hunt : LAWN
53. Songwriter Novello : IVOR
54. Kindly : NICE
55. Like dry mud : CAKY
56. Genesis grandson : ENOS
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