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New York Times, Monday, January 28, 2013

Author:
Jaime Hutchison and Victor Fleming
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
41-Across : Fill-ins, informally
TotalDebutCollabs
11/28/20131
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0100000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.54375%
Jaime Hutchison
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
473/29/200512/29/202125
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
75107666
CircleScrabDebutFresh
21.5522358%
Victor Fleming

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {GJQ} This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Hutchison. This is puzzle # 36 for Mr. Fleming. Monday freshness: 100%
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© 2013, The New York Times1/28/13 ( No. 23,092 )
Across
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Little prankster : IMP
4
Does nothing : IDLES
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Tots' fathers : DADAS
14
Neither's partner : NOR
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TV host Gibbons : LEEZA
16
Go off like a volcano : ERUPT
17
Info on a dashboard gauge : FUELLEVEL
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Countryside: Sp. : CAMPO
20
Within: Prefix : ENTO
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"I, the Jury" detective : MIKEHAMMER
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Big name in art glass : STEUBEN
25
Comic Caesar : SID
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Thanksgiving side dish : YAM
27
In layers : TIERED
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Read leisurely : PERUSE
30
French legislature : SENAT
31
Tiny misstep : SLIP
34
Newspaper opinion piece : OPED
35
Common put-down that hints at the ends of 17-, 21-, 53- and 58-Across : WHATATOOL
38
Asia's shrunken ___ Sea : ARAL
41
Fill-ins, informally : SUBS
42
British fellow : BLOKE
46
Divulges : LETSON
48
PC lookalikes, e.g. : CLONES
49
Pres. Lincoln : ABE
50
Pop singer Carly ___ Jepsen : RAE
52
"Aha!" : IHAVEIT
53
Flier made from a do-it-yourself kit : MODELPLANE
56
Fashion magazine with a French name : ELLE
57
Rust, for example : OXIDE
58
Safety exercise prompted by an alarm : FIREDRILL
60
Laura and Bruce of the silver screen : DERNS
61
That is: Lat. : IDEST
62
Cambodia's Lon ___ : NOL
63
These, to Conchita : ESTAS
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When repeated, identifies people : NAMES
65
Before, to a bard : ERE
Down
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Overruns as pests might : INFESTS
2
Canadian police officer : MOUNTIE
3
In the sixth grade or earlier, typically : PRETEEN
4
Sick : ILL
5
Judged : DEEMED
6
"Deathtrap" playwright Ira : LEVIN
7
Book before Daniel: Abbr. : EZEK
8
Counterpart of purchases : SALES
9
2010s, e.g. : DECADE
10
Biblical name for Syria : ARAM
11
Produce, as page layouts for a printer : DUMMYUP
12
Mollify : APPEASE
13
Attacked en masse : STORMED
18
Singer with the #1 R&B hit "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" : LOURAWLS
22
Zoo heavyweight, for short : HIPPO
24
Top 10 Kiss hit with backing by the New York Philharmonic : BETH
29
Dog command : ROLLOVER
31
Springfield resident Disco ___ : STU
32
Experiment site : LAB
33
With 36-Down, "Easy!" : ITS
36
See 33-Down : ASNAP
37
Lead-in to "di" or "da" in a Beatles song : OBLA
38
With ice cream : ALAMODE
39
Packs again for shipping : REBOXES
40
Suffered humiliation : ATEDIRT
43
Length of a pithy joke : ONELINE
44
Garrison of "A Prairie Home Companion" : KEILLOR
45
Actress Getty of "The Golden Girls" : ESTELLE
47
Discount price phrase : ORLESS
48
Edam or Brie : CHEESE
51
Leprechaunlike : ELFIN
52
Against property, to a judge : INREM
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Poet ___ St. Vincent Millay : EDNA
55
Opera with a slave girl : AIDA
59
Drunk's woe, informally : DTS

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

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