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New York Times, Saturday, May 24, 2003

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
63-Across : Réunion arrivals
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 169 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 69%
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© 2003, The New York Times5/24/3 ( No. 19,555 )
Across
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Beseech : APPEALTO
9
Dresses : HABITS
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Having just sold the last one : FRESHOUT
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Alkene series hydrocarbon : OLEFIN
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Wasn't worried : FELTSAFE
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Fixed : REDONE
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Prefix with style or spore : EPI
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Disconnected : OFFLINE
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Literary monogram : RWE
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Bad: Prefix : CACO
25
Two-time U.S. Open winner : SELES
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Cultural aid? : AGAR
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It's a living : TRADE
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Semicircular moldings : TORI
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Heart : CORE
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Some "S.N.L." sketches : SENDUPS
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Passed : ENACTED
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Title of respect : SRI
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Sharing word : OUR
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Initial advantage : TOEHOLD
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Life-giving principles : PNEUMAS
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___ Christi : ANNO
46
About : ORSO
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Rested : LEANT
49
Half a 1980's sitcom duo : KATE
50
Flip response? : TAILS
52
Rebuke : SLAP
53
Obsolete suffix : ETH
54
Place for an autograph : FLYLEAF
56
___ premium : ATA
57
Works : OEUVRE
59
"We have different styles" : IMNOTYOU
61
Roman emblem signifying power : FASCES
62
Bureaucracy of a sort : CITYHALL
63
Réunion arrivals : FRERES
64
Volatile solvents : ACETONES
Down
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Touches : AFFECTS
2
Whip up : PREPARE
3
___ Island National Wildlife Refuge, in Florida : PELICAN
4
Fla. setting : EST
5
Comment of enlightenment : AHSO
6
Doesn't work : LOAFS
7
Low seats : TUFFETS
8
1887 La Scala premiere : OTELLO
9
Interrupts : HORNSINON
10
Main course? : ALEE
11
Rock stratum : BED
12
"Oops" : IFORGOT
13
Old kitchen supplies : TINWARE
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Disdained, with "at" : SNEERED
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French noun suffix : IERE
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It's useless without its mate : ODDSHOE
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Grows : ACCRUES
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Mark's successor : EURO
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Flying alone : PILOTLESS
34
"The Shelters of Stone" author : AUEL
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Leave : TAKEOFF
38
Running wild : ONATEAR
39
Excite : ENTHUSE
40
Farm hauler : DRAY
41
Contents of a political tract, maybe : POLEMIC
42
Language from which "amok" is derived : MALAYAN
43
France, for one : ANATOLE
44
Wren creation : STPAULS
47
Flint is a form of it : SILICA
51
Health, in Le Havre : SANTE
54
Without plans : FREE
55
Four-time Indy 500 winner : FOYT
58
Taper : VCR
60
Even if, briefly : THO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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