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New York Times, Monday, September 2, 2002

Author:
Norma Johnson and Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Result of a punch in the mouth
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
79/2/20027/3/20073
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1231000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.533116%
Norma Johnson
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1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 35 Missing: {JKQXYZ} This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Johnson. This is puzzle # 92 for Ms. Salomon. Monday freshness: 45%
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© 2002, The New York Times9/2/2 ( No. 19,291 )
Across
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"Peanuts" boy : LINUS
6
Lady's man : GENT
10
Fizzling-out sound : PFFT
14
Make amends (for) : ATONE
15
Taj Mahal site : AGRA
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Title role for Peter Fonda : ULEE
17
Tunneling tusker? : BORINGBOAR
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Sinn ___ (Irish organization) : FEIN
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Brown in the kitchen : TOAST
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Hurt or irritate : OFFEND
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Suzanne of "Three's Company" : SOMERS
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Sultry Hayworth : RITA
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The "I" of T.G.I.F. : ITS
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Fruity coolers : ADES
30
Central street : MAIN
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Brown on the beach : TAN
34
Basketball's Alcindor : LEW
35
Florida home of Busch Gardens : TAMPA
36
Not weighing much : LIGHT
39
Mauna Loa, e.g. : VOLCANO
41
Bought : PAIDFOR
43
Bad breath cause, maybe : ONION
44
Exhaust : USEUP
46
Prevaricate : LIE
47
Holiday quaff : NOG
48
New Jersey hoopsters : NETS
49
Clutter : MESS
50
Musician's date : GIG
52
Better ___ than never : LATE
54
Goodies : TREATS
56
Playful child : ROMPER
58
Cook, as clams : STEAM
60
Needle case : ETUI
61
Grizzly doing a striptease? : BARINGBEAR
66
Powder ingredient : TALC
67
Writing on the wall : OMEN
68
Spine-tingling : EERIE
69
Sailing : ASEA
70
Amusement park lure : RIDE
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Small drinks of liquor : DRAMS
Down
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Chem class : LAB
2
"How was ___ know?" : ITO
3
Common conjunction : NOR
4
Joins forces : UNITES
5
One who may hear "Si, si!" : SENOR
6
Yaks : GABS
7
Vain voyage? : EGOTRIP
8
Gunner's grp. : NRA
9
Fortuneteller's card : TAROT
10
Bit of smoke : PUFF
11
Pest that's beating it? : FLEEINGFLEA
12
Misleading maneuver : FEINT
13
Minds, as a bar : TENDS
18
Certain meter reader : GASMAN
22
Result of a punch in the mouth : FATLIP
23
Artillery burst : SALVO
24
Old-fashioned music hall : ODEON
25
Big-eared blubberer? : MEWLINGMULE
27
Sulking : INAPET
31
Quantity : AMOUNT
33
Help : AID
35
Snarl : TANGLE
37
Raise : HOIST
38
Long lock : TRESS
40
Dove's sound : COO
42
"Pride and Prejudice" author : AUSTEN
45
Boils over : SEESRED
49
Dues payer : MEMBER
50
Reclusive Garbo : GRETA
51
Itsy-bitsy bits : IOTAS
53
Ann ___, Mich. : ARBOR
55
Showed fury : RAGED
57
Typesetter's unit : PICA
59
Fork feature : TINE
62
French friend : AMI
63
End of an ___ : ERA
64
Something to take, carefully : AIM
65
Lawyer's thing : RES

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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