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New York Times, Tuesday, December 10, 2002

Author:
John Underwood
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Down : Flexible, as a body
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John Underwood

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 37 Missing: {WZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Underwood. Tuesday freshness: 63%
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© 2002, The New York Times12/10/2 ( No. 19,390 )
Across
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Shaving products : FOAMS
6
Wrangler's buddy : PARD
10
Deck quartet : ACES
14
Buzzards Bay, for one : INLET
15
To ___ (exactly) : ATEE
16
Classic Walt Kelly strip : POGO
17
Washington flip side : STATE
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Monticello flip side : JEFFERSON
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Shout of adoration : HOSANNA
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Monkeys, apes and such : SIMIANS
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Is imminent : LOOMS
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Zero : NIL
26
Bad to the bone : EVIL
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Bonnet securer : HATPIN
31
In vitro items : OVA
34
Dunce cap-shaped : CONIC
36
Fill to the gills : SATE
37
San Francisco's ___ Hill : NOB
38
Memorial flip side : LINCOLN
41
Presidential seal flip side : KENNEDY
43
Pub order : ALE
44
Turndowns : NOES
46
Shipbuilders' woods : TEAKS
47
Driveway surface : TAR
48
Shows contempt : SNEERS
51
12/25 : XMAS
52
It's found in a pound : DOG
53
Bee product? : QUILT
55
A Little Rascal : ALFALFA
59
One of the Fondas : BRIDGET
63
Sacagawea flip side : BALDEAGLE
65
Roosevelt flip side : TORCH
66
Thin nail : BRAD
67
It's flipped in this puzzle : COIN
68
Fuss : HOOHA
69
Nervous : EDGY
70
Extremities : ENDS
71
Grain disease : ERGOT
Down
1
Dangle poles over a pier, say : FISH
2
Not deceived by : ONTO
3
Word for Yorick : ALAS
4
Tinny-sounding : METALLIC
5
Shorthand taker, for short : STENO
6
Kind of top or party : PAJAMA
7
Polished off : ATE
8
Makes calls on the court : REFS
9
Clear-cut : DEFINITE
10
Fool's month : APRIL
11
___ Nostra : COSA
12
Designer von Furstenberg : EGON
13
Princes, e.g. : SONS
19
___ domain : EMINENT
21
Drama with masks : NOH
24
They go around the block: Abbr. : STS
26
Great applause : ECLAT
27
"There!" : VOILA
28
Centerward : INNER
30
Karachi's land: Abbr. : PAK
31
A wee hr. : ONEAM
32
Bullshot ingredient : VODKA
33
Deep pit : ABYSS
35
Television cabinet : CONSOLE
39
Sullen expression : LONGFACE
40
Bridal bio word : NEE
42
Like a close neighbor : NEXTDOOR
45
Et ___ (and the following): Abbr. : SEQ
49
"Venus and Adonis" painter : RUBENS
50
What to call a knight : SIR
52
Papa : DADDY
54
Flexible, as a body : LITHE
55
Singer Lane : ABBE
56
Fat in a can : LARD
57
Stars and Stripes, e.g. : FLAG
58
1957 Stravinsky ballet : AGON
60
Old-time sailor's drink : GROG
61
Bounceback : ECHO
62
"___ does it!" : THAT
64
Topper : LID

Answer summary:
3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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