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New York Times, Monday, February 28, 2005

Author:
Marjorie Berg
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Across : Smooch
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97/3/200011/14/20053
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1.5710%
Marjorie Berg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQZ} This is puzzle # 8 for Ms. Berg. Monday freshness: 30%
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© 2005, The New York Times2/28/5 ( No. 20,201 )
Across
1
Livens (up) : PEPS
5
Snapshot : PHOTO
10
Bedazzles : AWES
14
Away from the wind : ALEE
15
Home run king Hank : AARON
16
Retail store : MART
17
Glib responses : PATANSWERS
19
On the ocean : ASEA
20
Baffled : ATALOSS
21
Canines or bicuspids : TEETH
23
New Haven collegians : ELIS
24
Personal bugbear : PETPEEVE
27
Observer : NOTER
30
Quattros, e.g. : AUDIS
31
Some sports cars : GTS
34
Take into custody : ARREST
37
Supreme Diana : ROSS
38
Go bad : ROT
39
Indy service break : PITSTOP
41
Sport ___ (all-purpose vehicle) : UTE
42
Med. school subj. : ANAT
44
Caviar source : BELUGA
45
Price add-on : TAX
46
Subway handhold : STRAP
48
Make into law : ENACT
50
Kind of stove : POTBELLY
53
Smooch : KISS
56
Major company in metallic products : ALCOA
57
Drink often served with a lemon twist : ICEDTEA
60
Skin woe : ACNE
62
Portfolio hedges : PUTOPTIONS
64
Eliot or Frost : POET
65
One of the nine Muses : ERATO
66
"Lohengrin" soprano : ELSA
67
Drags : TOWS
68
Heroic tales : SAGAS
69
Not shallow : DEEP
Down
1
Mama's partner : PAPA
2
Fill with joy : ELATE
3
Flower feature : PETAL
4
Protect, as freshness : SEALIN
5
Free ticket : PASS
6
Hems' partners : HAWS
7
Source of iron or lead : ORE
8
Rich pastry : TORTE
9
Beginning : ONSET
10
Not an expert : AMATEUR
11
Exhausted : WASHEDOUT
12
Before, in verse : ERE
13
Depot: Abbr. : STA
18
"Forget it!" : NOSOAP
22
Clean air org. : EPA
24
"Blue Hawaii" star : PRESLEY
25
Far-reaching view : VISTA
26
"The Private Lives of Elizabeth and ___" (1939 film) : ESSEX
28
Common newspaper nickname : TRIB
29
Art Deco designer : ERTE
31
Understand : GRASP
32
Jay Silverheels role : TONTO
33
Go back to square one : STARTANEW
35
Surprise greatly : STUN
36
Roman robe : TOGA
40
Bundle : PACKET
43
Things held by Moses : TABLETS
47
Chest muscle, for short : PEC
49
Neatened : TIDIED
51
Easy strides : LOPES
52
Designer Ashley : LAURA
54
Item worn around the shoulders : STOLE
55
Pick up on : SENSE
57
Teensy bit : IOTA
58
Navy noncoms, for short : CPOS
59
"Rush!" order : ASAP
60
It may be a walk-up: Abbr. : APT
61
Dove's sound : COO
63
Children's game : TAG

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

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