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New York Times, Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Author:
Gareth Bain
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
5-Across : Classic sci-fi terror, with "the"
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Gareth Bain

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Bain. Wednesday freshness: 91%
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© 2012, The New York Times1/25/12 ( No. 22,723 )
Across
1
Gulp from a flask : SWIG
5
Classic sci-fi terror, with "the" : BLOB
9
Began a triathlon : SWAM
13
College in New Rochelle, N.Y. : IONA
14
Running behind : LATE
15
Afghanistan's Karzai : HAMID
17
What the annual Dove Awards are awarded for : GOSPELMUSIC
19
"The Hot Zone" virus : EBOLA
20
Source of T-bones : STEER
21
Like winter in Siberia : COLDASHELL
23
Game with Skip and Reverse cards : UNO
24
Baseball card fig. : RBI
26
Followers of lambdas : MUS
27
"The Crow" actress ___ Ling : BAI
28
Song title for both Fleetwood Mac and Starship : SARA
30
Kind of aerobics : STEP
32
Phyllis's never-seen TV husband : LARS
33
Open to suggestion : AMENABLE
36
Coming-clean words : ILIED
38
Indicators of age ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme : TREERINGS
40
Sweet filling, in commercial names : KREME
42
Inviting a blessing? : SNEEZING
46
Sing a paean to : LAUD
47
Pursuers of the Sopranos, for short : GMEN
49
Drop ___ (start to disrobe) : TROU
50
"Newhart" setting : INN
51
Tre + tre : SEI
52
City of Kyrgyzstan : OSH
55
Tricky turn : ESS
56
One at a crime scene : EYEWITNESS
59
Take illegally : POACH
61
Noir or comedy : GENRE
62
Place for iodine : FIRSTAIDKIT
65
Perfumer's compound : ESTER
66
"Horrors!" : EGAD
67
Accelerator particles : IONS
68
Drunken spree : TOOT
69
Staph-caused irritation : STYE
70
Cherub at Notre Dame : ANGE
Down
1
Autograph: Abbr. : SIG
2
Ian who won the 1991 Masters : WOOSNAM
3
Yet to come : INSTORE
4
Act starstruck, say : GAPE
5
Words on a jacket : BLURB
6
Chorus syllables : LAS
7
Ear-related : OTIC
8
Look good on : BECOME
9
Gets rid of : SHEDS
10
Indiana river : WABASH
11
Sights on slides : AMOEBAE
12
President Fillmore : MILLARD
16
"The Persistence of Memory" and others : DALIS
18
Name for a bull : ELMER
22
Wolfish : LUPINE
23
Team ___ : USA
25
Trinidad or Tobago : ISLE
29
Chipped in : ANTED
31
Like telegrams, typically : TERSE
32
"Hungarian Rhapsodies" composer : LISZT
34
Part of a slot machine : ARM
35
Any of the "Stayin' Alive" singers : BEEGEE
37
Apparel abbr. : LGE
39
___ uncertain terms : INNO
40
"Gold Digger" rapper : KANYEWEST
41
Chance upon : RUNINTO
43
"Suppose so" : IRECKON
44
Having chips, say : NOSHING
45
NASA's Grissom : GUS
46
Feudal subject : LIEGE
48
Rifle problems : MISFIRES
51
Dog in the funnies : SNERT
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Classic Bogart role : SPADE
54
___ polloi : HOI
57
Palm smartphone : TREO
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Army NCO : SSGT
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1998 Sarah McLachlan hit : ADIA
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Scotland's Firth of ___ : TAY
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Mao ___-tung : TSE

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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