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New York Times, Thursday, October 30, 2003

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
67-Across : Winding road part
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
2297/11/199911/4/20182
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741241679512
RebusCircleScrabbleFresh
981.5480%
Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JZ} This is puzzle # 55 for Mr. Berry. Thursday freshness: 34%
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B
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© 2003, The New York Times10/30/3 ( No. 19,714 )
Across
1
Backyard party, for short : BBQ
4
Trapper's prize : PELT
8
Ordered around : BOSSED
14
Unofficial promissory note : IOU
15
Ointment ingredient : ALOE
16
Put a new face on, say : REPAVE
17
Thanksgiving follower: Abbr. : FRI
18
Dual-purpose kitchen device : TOASTEROVEN
20
Dual-purpose office device : FAXPRINTER
22
Light shades : TANS
23
Title character in a Pushkin drama : BORIS
24
Kemo ___ : SABE
26
"I didn't know that!" : GEE
27
Picks up on : NOTICES
29
Playwright Rice : ELMER
31
Not fond of dirty jokes, surely : PRIM
32
Relaxed : ATEASE
35
Le Mans event : RACE
36
Dual-purpose family room device : TVVCR
37
European nomad : LAPP
41
Nuke, maybe : REHEAT
43
Concerning : INRE
44
Seating option : AISLE
46
Walk faster than : OUTSTEP
49
Cinerary container : URN
50
Tarot card, with "The" : FOOL
53
Plastic surgery targets : NOSES
54
Final Four grp. : NCAA
56
Dual-purpose bedroom device : CLOCKRADIO
59
Dual-purpose laundry room device : WASHERDRYER
61
Say in a postscript : ADD
62
Ancient Macedonian city with noted tombs : EDESSA
63
Where a rabbit punch lands : NAPE
64
U.N. donor ___ Turner : TED
65
Make extracts from by boiling : DECOCT
66
Symbols of industry : ANTS
67
Winding road part : ESS
Down
1
Punch, slangily : BIFF
2
South Pacific island : BORABORA
3
Foolishly impractical : QUIXOTIC
4
"Sleepers" co-star Jason : PATRIC
5
Heroine of children's lit : ELOISE
6
Student aid : LOAN
7
Lab work : TESTS
8
Uncle Remus character : BRERBEAR
9
"___ the ramparts ..." : OER
10
Butterfly wing feature : SPOT
11
Untamed : SAVAGE
12
More balanced : EVENER
13
Slow on the uptake : DENSE
19
Product once harbored in Boston? : TEA
21
Early textbooks : PRIMERS
25
Noisy city transports : ELS
27
"Fresh Air" airer : NPR
28
Except for : SAVE
30
___ Joan Hart of TV's "Sabrina" : MELISSA
33
New Deal program: Abbr. : TVA
34
Outer: Prefix : ECTO
36
Powerful person in Iran, say : THEOCRAT
38
Come before : ANTEDATE
39
Heads : PRESIDES
40
Gusto : PEP
42
Little helper : ELF
44
House of games : ARCADE
45
Momentarily : INASEC
47
Discarded : UNKEPT
48
Hector or Rusty of 70's baseball : TORRES
49
Single : UNWED
51
Erstwhile : OLD
52
"___ Doone" : LORNA
55
Mock words of enlightenment : AHSO
57
Color used in four-color processing : CYAN
58
Probability : ODDS
60
PC key : ESC

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

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