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New York Times, Friday, October 3, 2003

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
41-Across : Big sports inits.
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 26 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 4, (2 double stacks) This is puzzle # 184 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 91%
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© 2003, The New York Times10/3/3 ( No. 19,687 )
Across
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Encourage : HEARTEN
8
Technological advance of the 1950's : COLORTV
15
"I'm glad I came" : ITSNICETOBEHERE
17
Comment at the end of a good social occasion : LETSDOTHISAGAIN
18
La preceder : TRA
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In conclusion, in Cannes : ENFIN
20
Duck : DODGE
21
"Idylls of the King" character : ENID
23
Removes in a putsch : OUSTS
25
Scale start : DORE
26
Isn't timid : DARES
28
Anti-Parkinson's drug : LDOPA
30
Outlying : FAR
31
Lou Gehrig, for one : LEFTY
33
"___ Came From the Holy Land" (classic poem) : ASYE
34
Most NPR stations : FMS
35
1998 N.L. M.V.P. : SAMMYSOSA
38
Binge : JAG
41
Big sports inits. : NCAA
42
Lumps and bumps : NODES
45
School founded by Thos. Jefferson : UVA
46
Actress Madeline and others : KAHNS
48
Some Maine scenery : PINES
50
Coarse hominy : SAMP
52
Boston pops : SODAS
54
___ tide : NEAP
55
Loss at a bald spot : TREAD
57
Amounts of laughter : GALES
59
Year Vespucci sailed to the New World : MDI
60
Producer of stories like you wouldn't believe : WILDIMAGINATION
63
Hidden asset : ACEUPONESSLEEVE
64
With splendor : REGALLY
65
Telemarketer's need : HEADSET
Down
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Handled, as a sword : HILTED
2
Godlike : ETERNAL
3
"Steps in Time" autobiographer : ASTAIRE
4
O.R. V.I.P.'s : RNS
5
It turns eventually : TIDE
6
___-Car : ECONO
7
Trawler's catch : NETFUL
8
Super Bowl start : COINTOSS
9
Dict. label : OBS
10
Get ahead : LEAD
11
Burns classic : OHGOD
12
Recite, as from a list : READOFF
13
MNO on a telephone dial, e.g. : TRIGRAM
14
Thin coats : VENEERS
16
Recent times : THISDAYANDAGE
22
Dict. material : DEFS
24
Secretly watch : SPYON
27
Was rotten : STANK
29
Certain moral authority : AESOP
32
Some training centers : YMCAS
36
Termite-resistant wood : MAHOGANY
37
Tennis score : ADIN
38
Topic of a St. Augustine treatise, with "the" : JUSTWAR
39
Sin of the beady-eyed : AVARICE
40
Cause for a limp : GAMELEG
43
Ones at the gate, maybe : ENEMIES
44
Small, short-billed auk : SEADOVE
47
Northwest Indian : SALISH
49
Upright : SPINET
51
"The Taming of the Shrew" city : PADUA
53
Brains : SENSE
56
Natl. negotiator : DIPL
58
Spanish parlor : SALA
61
Collection of atoms: Abbr. : MOL
62
J.F.K. aide ___ Sorensen : TED

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

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