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New York Times, Thursday, July 6, 2006

Author:
Pete Muller
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Across : Almost zero
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
184/18/20067/16/20177
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6042501
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
251.6013366%
Pete Muller

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Muller. Thursday freshness: 77%
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© 2006, The New York Times7/6/6 ( No. 20,694 )
Across
1
Malicious one : VIPER
6
Country music legend Ernest : TUBB
10
Poverty and war : ILLS
14
Related on the mother's side : ENATE
15
Oil that's not really oily : OLAY
16
Board unit? : MEAL
17
Relative of "It's not you, it's me" : I NEED MY SPACE
20
Co. name ender : LTD
21
Girl who's having a ball : DEB
22
Like some expensive tickets : SCALPED
23
Actor McGregor : EWAN
25
Prepared : SET
27
"Chasing ___," 1997 film : AMY
28
Two tablets every 12 hours, say : DOSAGE
30
Mother of Ares : HERA
32
Cry of disgust : FIE
35
Jimmied : FORCED
37
"Bye Bye Bye" boy band : NSYNC
39
Almost zero : NEXT TO NOTHING
43
Rule to follow : BYLAW
44
1979 Vanessa Redgrave title role : AGATHA
45
50's political inits. : AES
46
Kind of skirt : HULA
48
Rowers : OARMEN
52
The husband's : HIS
53
Old hand : PRO
55
"___ Sutra" : KAMA
56
Judge : ARBITER
60
Yalie : ELI
62
Certain corp. takeover : LBO
63
"We have a big dessert coming" : LEAVE SOME ROOM
66
Trim : PARE
67
Alternative media magazine : UTNE
68
Title boy in old comics : DONDI
69
They may be hard to beat : ODDS
70
Tap-in, e.g. : PUTT
71
Follows : OBEYS
Down
1
Hidden : VEILED
2
Bisected : IN TWO
3
Cuddly zoo animals : PANDAS
4
Hot time in Québec : ETE
5
Rush, e.g. : REED
6
Repeated part of a soliloquy : TO BE
7
Einstein's birthplace : ULM
8
Dark horses : BAYS
9
How many vacationers travel : BY CAR
10
Suggest : IMPLY
11
Bound : LEAP
12
Some frills : LACE
13
Source of many spills : SLED
18
Leave : DESERT
19
Fox with the 1988 hit "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)" : SAMANTHA
24
Borderline agreement? : NAFTA
26
Classic name in retail clothing ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme : THE GAP
29
Blanch : GO WHITE
31
Dame ___ : EDNA
32
Memo starter : FYI
33
B & B : INN
34
Ticker tape, for short? : ECG
36
Shade of black : COAL
38
Predator : SHARK
39
Rockets can be found in this: Abbr. : NBA
40
Check out : EYE
41
Some T-shirts : XLS
42
He played Lord Jim in "Lord Jim" : OTOOLE
47
Deplete : USE UP
49
1992 and '96 Dream Team member : MALONE
50
Represent : EMBODY
51
Campbell and Judd : NAOMIS
52
Allergic reaction : HIVES
54
Convened again : REMET
56
Meat dish often served with gravy : ALPO
57
Go through : READ
58
Good college for poets? : BARD
59
VW predecessor : RSTU
61
Words of affirmation : I DO
64
It touches four Great Lakes: Abbr. : ONT
65
Deprive (of) : ROB

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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