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New York Times, Thursday, June 23, 2005

Author: Courtenay Crocker III
Editor: Will Shortz
Courtenay Crocker III
Courtenay Crocker III
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {QWXZ} Spans: 1 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Crocker. NYT links: Across Lite
JimH notes: As the central Across answer MAN IN OUTER SPACE suggests, the six words at 1-, 18-, 27-, 47-, 62- and 68-Across (CHESTER, MILITIA, HANDLE, DRAFTS, SERVANT and TRIGGER) need to be preceded or followed by MAN (MANCHESTER, MILITIAMAN, MANHANDLE, DRAFTSMAN, MANSERVANT and TRIGGERMAN) to answer their clues.
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© 2005, The New York TimesNo. 0623 ( 20,316 )
Across Down
1. City in England : MANCHESTER
8. Motorized watercraft : JETSKIS
15. Dangerous ocean phenomenon : REDTIDE
16. Inflexible : ADAMANT
17. Maryland team : ORIOLES
18. Old musket carrier : MILITIAMAN
19. Like money in the bank : UNSPENT
20. Former Rep. Abzug : BELLA
21. Union inits. : CIO
22. HBO rival : SHO
24. ___ Buena (island in San Francisco Bay) : YERBA
27. Treat roughly : MANHANDLE
31. Anatomical mouths : ORA
33. ___ Valley, Calif. : SIMI
34. Capital originally called the City of the Kings : LIMAPERU
37. Go-ahead : NOD
38. Project Mercury objective (and a hint to 1-, 18-, 27-, 47-, 62- and 68-Across) : MANINOUTERSPACE
42. High dudgeon : IRE
43. Richly laden ships : ARGOSIES
44. Czech or Serb : SLAV
46. Singer Sumac : YMA
47. Architect's aide : DRAFTSMAN
51. Achier : SORER
53. Dutch city : EDE
55. Tax-deferring instrument: Abbr. : IRA
56. ___ González in 2000 news : ELIAN
58. Minsk's home : BELARUS
62. Maid's counterpart : MANSERVANT
64. They may get heavy at night : EYELIDS
65. Warming : DETENTE
66. Wronged person's cry : REVENGE
67. On the schedule : SLOTTED
68. Armed gang member : TRIGGERMAN
 1. What catchers do : CROUCH
2. Rupture : HERNIA
3. Famous lab director : EDISON
4. Pull over : STOP
5. Floor element : TILE
6. Heaven : EDEN
7. Last word for the defense : RESTS
8. Scouting blowouts : JAMBOREES
9. One of the housewives on "Desperate Housewives" : EDIE
10. Add up : TALLY
11. Prepares to be shot, maybe : SMILES
12. Women's tennis star Srebotnik : KATARINA
13. Magician's name ending : INI
14. Place to buy tkts. : STA
23. Critter with a sticky tongue : HOPTOAD
25. College V.I.P. : BMOC
26. Adjutant : AIDE
28. 551, once : DLI
29. Filmmaker Wertmuller : LINA
30. Georgia university : EMORY
32. Ban alternative : ARRID
35. Added value to : AUGMENTED
36. Addict : USER
38. Hit's alternative : MISS
39. Name on "Alice's Restaurant" : ARLO
40. Closer by : NEARERTO
41. Unpaid TV ad: Abbr. : PSA
45. Antler covering : VELVET
48. Step in ceramic making : FIRING
49. Plod : TRUDGE
50. Smart one : SASSER
52. Laughing : RIANT
54. Roeper's TV partner : EBERT
57. Help make a pot : ANTE
59. Ogler : EYER
60. Strauss of jeans fame : LEVI
61. "Shake ___!" : ALEG
62. 60's campus grp. : SDS
63. It was "boil'd in broo'," in the ballad "Lord Randal" : EEL

Answer summary: 3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.

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