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New York Times, Tuesday, February 25, 2003

Author:
Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
34-Across : ___-Locka, Fla.
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
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1521.58132%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 103 for Ms. Salomon. Tuesday freshness: 83%
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© 2003, The New York Times2/25/3 ( No. 19,467 )
Across
1
Five Pillars of ___ : ISLAM
6
Tobacco wad : CHAW
10
Prez's backup : VEEP
14
Impact sounds : THUDS
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Heavenly circle : HALO
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Not prerecorded : LIVE
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It may bring you back to reality : COLDSHOWER
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Warts and all : ASIS
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Pail problem : HOLE
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Queried : ASKED
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Splinter group : SECT
23
Cowgirl Evans : DALE
25
Enter : GOINTO
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Exit : BOWOUT
30
Not the main office : BRANCH
32
Opposite of spicy : BLAND
33
Replay option : SLOMO
34
___-Locka, Fla. : OPA
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Diamond ___ : LIL
38
Running things : INPOWER
40
Part of WWW : WEB
41
NBC weekend comedy, briefly : SNL
42
Thoroughly thumps : BEATS
43
Nerd : DWEEB
45
Lifers, e.g. : FELONS
47
Like heaven's gates : PEARLY
48
Bee's bundle : POLLEN
50
Say coquettishly : PURR
51
Sailor's hail : AHOY
52
Warning wail : SIREN
55
Nada : ZERO
59
Fancy marbles : TAWS
60
Academic enclave : IVORYTOWER
62
Algonquian language : CREE
63
Understands : GETS
64
Laker star Shaquille : ONEAL
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Aesop's also-ran : HARE
66
Big Board initials : NYSE
67
Full of good cheer : MERRY
Down
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Result of a flea, maybe : ITCH
2
"Get lost!" : SHOO
3
Break in the action : LULL
4
Appended : ADDEDON
5
Ed.'s pile : MSS
6
Picked out : CHOSE
7
Dove's opposite : HAWK
8
Downwind, at sea : ALEE
9
Scrabble or Boggle : WORDGAME
10
Pickle brand : VLASIC
11
President whose grandson wed a president's daughter : EISENHOWER
12
Kick out : EVICT
13
Trattoria topping : PESTO
18
Sentry's command : HALT
24
Loud enough to hear : AUDIBLE
26
Coming : ONORDER
27
OPEC units: Abbr. : BBLS
28
Lena of "Havana" : OLIN
29
Nonmixer at a mixer : WALLFLOWER
30
Ink stains : BLOTS
31
Column crossers : ROWS
33
Go over : SPAN
35
Part of a lemon : PEEL
36
"Dear" advice-giver : ABBY
39
Advertising lure : NEONSIGN
44
Combat area : WARZONE
46
Parisian palace : ELYSEE
47
Undersized : PUNY
48
Antismoking aid : PATCH
49
Scarlett of Tara : OHARA
50
Inherently : PERSE
53
Actress Judith : IVEY
54
Goes bad : ROTS
56
Water pitcher : EWER
57
Spot for a spanking : REAR
58
Air France locale : ORLY
61
Barnyard male : TOM

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

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