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New York Times, Thursday, February 20, 2003

Author:
Peter Sarrett
Editor:
Will Shortz
29-Across : Back muscles, for short
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Peter Sarrett

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QVZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Sarrett. Thursday freshness: 12%
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© 2003, The New York Times2/20/3 ( No. 19,462 )
Across
1
Pampering places : SPAS
5
Pronunciation indicator : SCHWA
10
See 40-Across : MART
14
Minor stroke : PUTT
15
Loads of fun : AHOOT
16
Word with Bay or gray : AREA
17
Gray : ASHY
18
Something not to talk about : TABOO
19
Naval position: Abbr. : CMDR
20
Leaves a center for cereal abuse? : CHEXOUTOFREHAB
23
Bard's nightfall : EEN
24
AWOL chasers : MPS
25
Go online : LOGIN
27
An hour of prime-time TV, often : DRAMA
29
Back muscles, for short : LATS
32
Grp. vigorously backing the Second Amendment : NRA
33
It's not the norm : ANOMALY
36
@ : EACH
37
Makes cereal more flavorful? : KIXITUPANOTCH
40
With 10-Across, place to get milk and bread : MINI
41
Divide, as Gaul : TRISECT
42
TV puppet voiced by Paul Fusco : ALF
43
Asian cookers : WOKS
44
Kind of bulb : TULIP
48
Mrs. Ceausescu of Romania : ELENA
50
Galoot : APE
52
Whole : ONE
53
Master cereal-maker's knowledge? : TRIXOFTHETRADE
58
Spirit, in Islamic myth : JINN
59
42-Across, for one : ALIEN
60
Crowning : ATOP
61
"I Want ___" (Rodgers and Hart song) : AMAN
62
Kitschy film monster : RODAN
63
Loafer, e.g. : SHOE
64
Depend : RELY
65
Low-rent, maybe : SEEDY
66
Rancher's concern : HERD
Down
1
Went blank in the head : SPACED
2
Narc's target : PUSHER
3
Armored Greek goddess : ATHENA
4
River to the underworld : STYX
5
Stayed awake : SATUP
6
Heart-to-hearts : CHATS
7
Wanderer : HOBO
8
Rough bark : WOOF
9
Ending with comment or liquid : ATOR
10
Swaggering : MACHO
11
French brandy : ARMAGNAC
12
Good wood for cabinetry : REDBIRCH
13
Pit contents : TAR
21
Muscat dweller : OMANI
22
Chicago transports : ELS
26
"Nope" : NAH
28
Skirt for the modest : MAXI
29
Blue stone : LAPIS
30
Regrettably : ALAS
31
Northumberland river : TYNE
34
Palindromic guy's name : OTTO
35
Gloom : MURK
36
Accusatory question : ETTU
37
Play solitaire, perhaps : KILLTIME
38
Hellish : INFERNAL
39
Certain jazz combo : OCTET
40
Al Capp's Daisy ___ : MAE
43
Salon job : WAX
45
Abhor : LOATHE
46
Like some pools : INDOOR
47
Complained slightly : PEEPED
49
Fool : NINNY
50
Having the most points : AHEAD
51
Copper : PENNY
54
Galley workers : OARS
55
Arctic sight : FLOE
56
Lunar effect : TIDE
57
Unheedful : RASH
58
Food container : JAR

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

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