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New York Times, Monday, August 28, 2000

Author:
Richard Hughes
Editor:
Will Shortz
66-Down : For each
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Richard Hughes

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QXYZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 25 for Mr. Hughes. Monday freshness: 1%
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G
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© 2000, The New York Times8/28/0 ( No. 18,556 )
Across
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Lump of cream, for example : GLOB
5
Open a bit : AJAR
9
Man with a fable : AESOP
14
Debauchee : ROUE
15
Wowser : LULU
16
Lollipop flavor : GRAPE
17
Really happy, as an angel? : INSEVENTHHEAVEN
20
___ dish : PETRI
21
Al or Tipper : GORE
22
When said three times, a 1970 war movie : TORA
23
Sault ___ Marie : STE
25
Without principles : AMORAL
27
Really happy, as a kid in March? : HIGHASAKITE
33
"Garfield" dog : ODIE
34
H.S. junior's test : PSAT
35
Concur : AGREE
40
Tony-winner Moore : MELBA
42
7, on a phone : PRS
43
Tailless hoppers : TOADS
44
Really bother : EATAT
45
They have their pluses and minuses : IONS
47
Currier's partner in lithography : IVES
48
Really happy, as a meteorologist? : ONCLOUDNINE
51
Auto trim : CHROME
55
Unit of energy : ERG
56
Raise, as kids : REAR
57
"Two Years Before the ___" : MAST
61
"Measure twice, cut once," e.g. : ADAGE
65
Really happy, as a mountaineer? : ONTOPOFTHEWORLD
68
Teatime treat : SCONE
69
Bulrush, e.g. : REED
70
Remove from a mother's milk : WEAN
71
Monsieur : Paris :: ___ : Madrid : SENOR
72
Isn't keeping up with bills : OWES
73
Zippo : NADA
Down
1
Tight hold : GRIP
2
Sole : LONE
3
Bump from office : OUST
4
Southernmost city of ancient Palestine : BEERSHEBA
5
Pub order : ALE
6
Father of Analytical Psychology : JUNG
7
Choir voice : ALTO
8
German industrial region : RUHR
9
Paleontologist's estimate : AGE
10
A Muse : ERATO
11
Relish : SAVOR
12
"Lohengrin," e.g. : OPERA
13
Kind of code : PENAL
18
Ars longa, ___ brevis : VITA
19
Miami basketball team : HEAT
24
Debatable "skill" : ESP
26
Vegetarians eschew it (NOT chew it) : MEAT
27
"Where the heart is" : HOME
28
Concept : IDEA
29
Coated with gold : GILT
30
Savory jelly : ASPIC
31
Pope John Paul II's real first name : KAROL
32
"___ skin off my nose!" : ITSNO
36
Submerging : GOINGDOWN
37
Sitarist Shankar : RAVI
38
Garden with a snake : EDEN
39
Start of North Carolina's motto : ESSE
41
Part of a molecule : ATOM
46
Take to court : SUE
49
Nautilus captain : NEMO
50
Sketch : DRAW
51
Angry : CROSS
52
From now on : HENCE
53
Betray, in a way : RATON
54
Maine college town : ORONO
58
60's do : AFRO
59
Fret : STEW
60
You, to the Amish : THEE
62
Region : AREA
63
Happy : GLAD
64
___ St. Vincent Millay : EDNA
66
For each : PER
67
Newsman Bradley et al. : EDS

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

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