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New York Times, Monday, January 12, 2009

Author:
Lynn Lempel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
50-Across : Held on to
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Lynn Lempel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {BJV} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 38 for Ms. Lempel. Monday freshness: 34%
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© 2009, The New York Times1/12/9 ( No. 21,615 )
Across
1
Book balancer, briefly : CPA
4
Be in the game or in the band : PLAY
8
Photography icon Adams : ANSEL
13
Lubricates : OILS
15
Taj Mahal feature : DOME
16
Any old jerk : SCHMO
17
Injure severely : MAIM
18
Cloth square for a bedcover : QUILTPIECE
20
Following behind, as a broken-down car : INTOW
22
Cunning : SLY
23
Whole bunch : SLEW
24
Figure fashioned from dough : COOKIESHAPE
28
Service charge : FEE
29
Frozen waffle brand : EGGO
30
All-out : TOTAL
32
Yankee nickname starting in 2004 : AROD
35
Query : ASK
37
Quick barber jobs : TRIMS
40
Clothing with tabs : PAPERDOLLOUTFIT
44
Dwelling with a smoke hole : TEPEE
45
Atlas page : MAP
46
RisquŽ : SEXY
47
Early Mexican : OLMEC
50
Held on to : KEPT
52
Some degs. after bachelor's : MAS
54
Retailer's enticement : STORECOUPON
59
Met singer Pinza : EZIO
61
"Uh-uh" : NAH
62
Pop heroes : IDOLS
63
"Stop!" ... or what you do to 18-, 24-, 40- and 54-Across : CUTTHATOUT
67
___ 500 : INDY
68
Home of the Minotaur's labyrinth : CRETE
69
Brink : EDGE
70
Chief Norse god : ODIN
71
"The Lion and the Mouse" storyteller : AESOP
72
Roald who created Willy Wonka : DAHL
73
Jiffy : SEC
Down
1
Chris Rock or Ellen DeGeneres : COMIC
2
Steinway, e.g. : PIANO
3
Justice Samuel : ALITO
4
Pronto : PDQ
5
Singer Rawls or Reed : LOU
6
Travelers in horse buggies : AMISH
7
Scold : YELLAT
8
Deadly cobra : ASP
9
Spinoff of CBS's "JAG" : NCIS
10
Determinant of a "best if used by" date : SHELFLIFE
11
Toastmaster : EMCEE
12
Lerner's "Camelot" partner : LOEWE
14
Russian fish delicacy : SMOKEDEEL
19
Printing goof : TYPO
21
Top part of a disguise : WIG
25
"Holy cow!" : EGAD
26
Mediocre : SOSO
27
"___, Brute?" : ETTU
31
Place to make a scene? : ARTSTUDIO
32
Likely : APT
33
"The Facts of Life" actress Charlotte : RAE
34
Night and day, say : OPPOSITES
36
Airline whose name is consecutive letters of the alphabet : KLM
38
Mingle : MIX
39
Hog's place : STY
41
Radiation units : REMS
42
___ Michigan : LAKE
43
Grp. with clout at the gas pump : OPEC
48
Sicily's erupter : ETNA
49
Having an outer layer, as M&M's : COATED
51
Taro dish : POI
52
Muhammad's birthplace : MECCA
53
Sky-blue : AZURE
55
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spinoff : RHODA
56
Locales for ducks : PONDS
57
Hit from Grandpa's day : OLDIE
58
Boy band that sang "Girlfriend" : NSYNC
60
Filmmaker Preminger : OTTO
64
Cool, in the '40s : HEP
65
"Yuck!" : UGH
66
___ Aviv : TEL

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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