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New York Times, Thursday, September 26, 2002

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
40-Across : Busy on a job
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 32 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 164 for Mr. Nosowsky. Thursday freshness: 58%
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© 2002, The New York Times9/26/2 ( No. 19,315 )
Across
1
Place for a 63-Across : CRAPSTABLE
11
Livestock : PIGS
15
Second greeting : HELLOAGAIN
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Soon : ANON
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Weighed down : ENCUMBERED
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Stamp of approval : USDA
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Put on : STAGE
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Scottish lake : NESS
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"See for yourself!" : LOOK
22
Khakis : TANS
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Put in : ADD
24
___ latte (hot drink) : CAFFE
25
Matter for the gray matter : IDEA
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Heat meas. : BTU
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It may have a big head : ALE
30
Short-term wheels : LOANER
33
Sagan of "Cosmos" : CARL
34
Judge Bean : ROY
35
Like Shostakovich's Symphony No. 2 : INB
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7 or 11, initially, at a 1-Across : NATURAL
38
"___ Maria" : AVE
39
Fraternity letter : TAU
40
Busy on a job : ATIT
41
Lays off : CEASES
43
Ones with spots showing? : TVS
44
Home hideaway : DEN
45
Water level indicator : RING
46
Expensive camera : LEICA
48
Article of the Constitution dealing with treason : III
49
Like some relations: Abbr. : INTL
53
First name in home humor : ERMA
54
Signal at a pagoda, maybe : BONG
56
Video game name : ATARI
57
Barbed comments : JABS
58
Skipping the sauce : ONTHEWAGON
60
Pointed arch : OGEE
61
Roll in an office : SCOTCHTAPE
62
Swamp ___ (predatory fish) : EELS
63
One to whom dice are passed : NEWSHOOTER
Down
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Where the heart is : CHEST
2
___-Wreck : RENTA
3
Renamed northern highway : ALCAN
4
Connects : PLUGSIN
5
To a degree : SOME
6
Computer key : TAB
7
Docket : AGENDA
8
Didn't keep secret : BARED
9
Cry before and after "all" : LIES
10
"Loose" things : ENDS
11
Singer Abdul : PAULA
12
To the degree that : INSOFARAS
13
Cupid, e.g. : GODOFLOVE
14
2 at a 1-Across : SNAKEEYES
23
Blow bubbles in : AERATE
24
Poet William ___ Bryant : CULLEN
26
Response to "Gracias," maybe : DENADA
27
Grill's partner : BAR
28
Razor brand : TRACII
30
Pair of 2's at a 1-Across : LITTLEJOE
31
Typically : ONAVERAGE
32
Site of two temples of Ramses II : ABUSIMBEL
33
Edit out : CUT
37
Rustproofing agent : TIN
42
Excitedly, in music : AGITATO
45
Civil ___ : RIGHTS
47
Suits : CASES
48
Like many trailers : INTOW
50
Bother persistently : NAGAT
51
Figure of speech : TROPE
52
Part of a makeup kit : LINER
54
Cap'n's mate : BOSN
55
Almost never? : ONCE
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Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears ___" : AWHO
59
Command level: Abbr. : ECH

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

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