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New York Times, Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Author:
John Farmer
Editor:
Will Shortz
32-Across : Weekly founded by Walter Annenberg
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John Farmer

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {KQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Farmer. Wednesday freshness: 78%
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© 2008, The New York Times1/9/8 ( No. 21,246 )
Across
1
Vacation rental : CAR
4
___ Lama : DALAI
9
Paintball sound : SPLAT
14
Boo follower : HOO
15
"You know ... it's ... um ... like this ..." : IMEAN
16
Watchmaker since 1848 : OMEGA
17
Extension : ARM
18
Blindly : SIGHTUNSEEN
20
Possible cause of a swelling : STING
22
Filmmaker Gus Van ___ : SANT
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Have as a focus of one's studies : MAJORIN
26
Place for steamers : CLAMBAR
31
Feeling : SENSATE
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Weekly founded by Walter Annenberg : TVGUIDE
33
Cool guys : CATS
35
"Would ___ to You?" (1985 Eurythmics hit) : ILIE
36
Club choice : WHOLEWHEATBREAD
43
Neighbor on the 1980s sitcom "Mama's Family" : IOLA
44
Footprint or loose thread, perhaps : CLUE
45
People of Burundi : THEHUTU
49
All accounted for : INTOTAL
54
Customized : TOORDER
55
Import with a "cavallino rampante" logo : FERRARI
56
"Phooey!" : DRAT
58
Sen. Hatch : ORRIN
59
Expose, with "on" : SHINEALIGHT
65
Totaled : RAN
66
Intrigue : AMOUR
67
From Cork, e.g. : IRISH
68
Pittsburgh-to-Boston dir. : ENE
69
Wry faces : POUTS
70
Boston five : CELTS
71
What each set of circled letters spells : DAY
Down
1
Challenges for daredevil motorcyclists : CHASMS
2
Blood lines : AORTAE
3
Actress Rebecca of "Ugly Betty" : ROMIJN
4
Ignominy : DISGRACE
5
Friend of François : AMI
6
Part of a relay : LEG
7
Relief reactions : AAHS
8
Unbroken : INTACT
9
"In America" novelist Susan : SONTAG
10
Blair, Brown and others, in brief : PMS
11
Winner at the Second Battle of Bull Run : LEE
12
Bronze ___ : AGE
13
Bronze : TAN
19
Runnin' Rebels of the N.C.A.A. : UNLV
21
Squares and cubes, e.g.: Abbr. : NOS
24
"___ a Putty Tat" (Friz Freleng short) : ITAW
25
One of the Low Countries: Abbr. : NETH
27
Naturalist who appears on the California quarter : MUIR
28
Vitriol : BILE
29
1998 Sarah McLachlan hit : ADIA
30
Bit for a basket weaver : REED
34
Half a mo : SEC
36
Skater Katarina : WITT
37
Jolly laugh : HOHO
38
Sub in a tub : OLEO
39
Bert who sang "If I Only Had the Nerve" : LAHR
40
A first for Arabia? : ALIF
41
Some people have trouble carrying one : TUNE
42
Gets engaged to, old-style : BETROTHS
46
Milk dispensers : UDDERS
47
Trillion: Prefix : TERA
48
Language family that includes Finnish and Hungarian : URALIC
50
Hockey's Bobby : ORR
51
Blackened : TARRED
52
Sister of Albus Dumbledore, in the Harry Potter books : ARIANA
53
Actress Laura : LINNEY
57
Part of a makeshift swing : TIRE
59
Softhead : SAP
60
Med. insurance choice : HMO
61
Slip in a pot : IOU
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Loon : NUT
63
Baseball's Hodges : GIL
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1940s presidential inits. : HST

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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