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New York Times, Thursday, January 29, 2009

Author:
Barry C. Silk
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
58-Across : See 66-Across
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Barry C. Silk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 34 for Mr. Silk. Thursday freshness: 52%
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© 2009, The New York Times1/29/9 ( No. 21,632 )
Across
1
Suffix with social : IZE
4
Best in mental combat : OUTWIT
10
Some rain gear : MACS
14
Hold one's ___ : OWN
15
Time magazine's 2007 Invention of the Year : IPHONE
16
Jacques Cousteau's middle name : YVES
17
See 66-Across : LEGALPROFESSION
20
Cockpit datum : AIRSPEED
21
Bridge declaration : IPASS
22
They're inserted in locks : OARS
23
City on the Nile : GIZA
25
See 66-Across : BANISHBYDECREE
31
Influential Greek physician : GALEN
32
1/100 of a krone : ORE
33
Roof projection : EAVE
34
Sch. with a Providence campus : URI
35
See 66-Across : TAPROOM
39
Ringo's drummer son : ZAK
40
Plunders : ROBS
42
Some eggs : ROE
43
Products once pitched by U2 and Eminem : IPODS
45
See 66-Across : UNITOFPRESSURE
49
Basilica part : APSE
50
Riga resident : LETT
51
Start of Caesar's boast : ICAME
54
Texas panhandle city : AMARILLO
58
See 66-Across : MUSICALNOTATION
61
Related : AKIN
62
Soldiers may be on it : PATROL
63
Abbr. in French mail : MME
64
TV heroine who wielded a chakram as a weapon : XENA
65
Sixth graders, e.g. : TWEENS
66
Word defined by 17-, 25-, 35-, 45- and 58-Across : BAR
Down
1
Seat of Allen County, Kan. : IOLA
2
Deux : France :: ___ : Germany : ZWEI
3
Technician: Abbr. : ENGR
4
Artist's application : OILPAINT
5
Amphetamines, e.g. : UPPERS
6
Separate the wheat from the chaff : THRESH
7
Golf club : WOOD
8
Like Beethoven's Sixth Symphony : INF
9
Place to start a hole : TEE
10
News Corporation acquisition of 2005 : MYSPACE
11
New Balance competitor : AVIA
12
Business honchos : CEOS
13
I.R.S. data: Abbr. : SSNS
18
In harmony : ASONE
19
Tag info : SIZE
23
Greek restaurant offering : GYRO
24
Logical introduction? : IDEO
25
Captain of industry : BARON
26
Out : ALIBI
27
Hole-making tool : BORER
28
Shadow remover : RAZOR
29
Duck : EVADE
30
Mice might elicit them : EEKS
31
Wise guy : GURU
36
Pet sounds : ARFS
37
The Swiss Guards guard him : POPE
38
Cold northerly winds of southern France : MISTRALS
41
Endurance : STAMINA
44
"___ down!" ("Drop the gun!") : PUTIT
46
Crude letters? : OPEC
47
"Get Shorty" novelist ___ Leonard : ELMORE
48
George who directed "Miracle on 34th Street" : SEATON
51
Big film shower : IMAX
52
Salad veggie : CUKE
53
Q ___ queen : ASIN
54
Chip without dip? : ANTE
55
An arm or a leg : LIMB
56
___ Linda, Calif. : LOMA
57
Humdinger : ONER
59
Fitting : APT
60
66-Across topic : LAW

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

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