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New York Times, Monday, March 18, 2002

Author:
John Greenman
Editor:
Will Shortz
5-Across : Tobacco smoke component
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John Greenman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 42 Missing: {FQVWZ} This is puzzle # 59 for Mr. Greenman. Monday freshness: 42%
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© 2002, The New York Times3/18/2 ( No. 19,123 )
Across
1
Players in a play : CAST
5
Tobacco smoke component : TAR
8
Scottish Gaelic : ERSE
12
Commedia dell'___ : ARTE
13
Visibly dumbstruck : AGAPE
15
Trust, with "on" : RELY
16
Wheedle : COAX
17
Stick-on : DECAL
18
Not fully closed : AJAR
19
Puccini opera Web site? : TURANDOTCOM
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Unlatch, to bards : OPE
23
Intl. cultural org. : UNESCO
24
Saigon's former enemy : HANOI
26
60's campus grp. : SDS
27
Exact-time Web site? : ONTHEDOTCOM
32
"Don't go!" : STAY
33
Post-Crucifixion sculpture : PIETA
34
Humid : DAMP
38
Milky gems : OPALS
41
Farmer's output : CROP
42
Violinist Stern : ISAAC
44
"Bye-bye" : TATA
46
Document miniaturization Web site? : MICRODOTCOM
49
Kwik-E-Mart clerk on "The Simpsons" : APU
52
Where Goodyear is headquartered : AKRON
53
Brunch dish : OMELET
55
Tavern : BAR
57
Printed clothing Web site? : POLKADOTCOM
60
Elvis ___ Presley : ARON
62
Painter Rivera : DIEGO
63
Prefix with scope or logical : HORO
64
With 11-Down, Brontë heroine : JANE
65
Particle in electrolysis : ANION
66
R. & B. singer Redding : OTIS
67
Reached ground : ALIT
68
"___ Rosenkavalier" : DER
69
Points per game, e.g. : STAT
Down
1
It has points in Arizona : CACTUS
2
"I Get ___" (Beach Boys hit) : AROUND
3
Rubbernecks : STARES
4
Lubbock's home : TEXAS
5
Discretion : TACT
6
Attack helicopter : APACHE
7
Insert fresh cartridges : RELOAD
8
Silent ___ (time before the talkies) : ERA
9
Celebrant : REJOICER
10
Response to an affront : SLAP
11
See 64-Across : EYRE
13
Expand, as a house : ADDONTO
14
Pres. Washington : GEO
20
Sgts. and such : NCOS
21
Alphabet series : MNOP
25
Suffix with psych- : OTIC
28
Spigot : TAP
29
Marriott competitor : HYATT
30
Great Plains Indian : OTO
31
Treasure hunter's aid : MAP
34
Slow-witted : DIM
35
"___ was saying" : ASI
36
Food that can be strung on a necklace : MACARONI
37
Driving test directive : PARK
39
Fond du ___, Wis. : LAC
40
Was atop : STOODON
43
Company: Abbr. : CORP
45
Bullets : AMMO
47
Thingamabob : DOODAD
48
Part of AOL : ONLINE
49
"Little Women" writer : ALCOTT
50
Bradley University site : PEORIA
51
Maximum extent : UTMOST
54
Group's character : ETHOS
55
___ California : BAJA
56
Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL
58
Actor Dullea : KEIR
59
In times past : AGO
61
After-tax take : NET

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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