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New York Times, Thursday, December 4, 2003

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Across : Hit song by Jackson Browne, 1982
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QVXZ} This is puzzle # 118 for Ms. Gorski. Thursday freshness: 74%
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© 2003, The New York Times12/4/3 ( No. 19,749 )
Across
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Big tooth : TUSK
5
Whopper : LULU
9
___ facto : IPSO
13
NASA gasket : ORING
15
"East of Eden" twin : ARON
16
One with a pounding head? : NAIL
17
Don't : TABOO
18
Send packing : DISCHARGE
20
Not definite : ANYBODYSGUESS
22
Rapper ___ Kim : LIL
23
Donald Rumsfeld's bailiwick: Abbr. : DOD
24
Simultaneously : ATATIME
27
Overseas carrier : SAS
28
Building beam : JOIST
30
Revolutionary War officer ___ Putnam : RUFUS
31
Farm female : SOW
32
Overly : TOO
34
Writers' blocks : PADS
35
1994 Paul Newman film : NOBODYSFOOL
38
Din : ROAR
40
Goombah : PAL
41
1982 biography by Joseph Alsop : FDR
42
Chair man? : EAMES
44
Lingerie item : TEDDY
46
Big galoot : LUG
49
Chopin piece : PRELUDE
51
Alliance created in 1948: Abbr. : OAS
52
Tax form info: Abbr. : IRA
53
Hit song by Jackson Browne, 1982 : SOMEBODYSBABY
56
Savanna : GRASSLAND
58
Name in 1999-2000 news : ELIAN
59
Microwave : NUKE
60
Sexologist Shere : HITE
61
Kind of question : YESNO
62
Look over a wall, say : PEER
63
"Do ___ else!" : ITOR
64
Letter opener : DEAR
Down
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Demolishes : TOTALS
2
Muse of astronomy : URANIA
3
Sistine Chapel figures : SIBYLS
4
Radio feature : KNOB
5
Blushing bride of '81 : LADYDI
6
"Exodus" author : URIS
7
Silicon Valley city : LOSGATOS
8
Full-length : UNCUT
9
Out of it : INASTUPOR
10
Wagner's final opera : PARSIFAL
11
Messina Mr. : SIG
12
"___ Buttermilk Sky" (1946 hit) : OLE
14
"Bravo!" : GOODJOB
19
When repeated, a cry of approval : HEAR
21
It used to be sung on street corners : DOOWOP
25
Hut material : MUD
26
It goes this way and that : ESS
29
"Fashions fade, ___ is eternal": Yves St. Laurent : STYLE
31
Spoilsport of a sort : SORELOSER
33
When one's not at one's best : OFFDAY
35
Junior, to Senior : NAMESAKE
36
Attractive single person, slangily : DATEBAIT
37
Trip to tell about : ODYSSEY
38
Theater company, for short : REP
39
Propeller : OAR
43
Bottoms of columns : SUMS
45
Walk unsteadily : DODDER
46
Go between : LIAISE
47
Illinois college town : URBANA
48
"I Will Survive" singer Gloria : GAYNOR
50
Deepak Chopra's birthplace : DELHI
54
Not fooled by : ONTO
55
Wasn't colorfast : BLED
56
Econ. yardstick : GNP
57
It runs through Montréal : RUE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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