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New York Times, Monday, October 12, 2009

Author:
Richard Chisholm
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
39-Across : Charles Nelson ___, longtime "Match Game" panelist
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Richard Chisholm

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JKQZ} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 27 for Mr. Chisholm. Monday freshness: 68%
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© 2009, The New York Times10/12/9 ( No. 21,888 )
Across
1
Bit of sunlight : RAY
4
Effrontery : GALL
8
Make equal, as the score : EVENUP
14
Ram's mate : EWE
15
Sting, in baby talk : OWIE
16
Piece of luggage : VALISE
17
___-o'-shanter : TAM
18
Likely result of pollution along a beach : SWIMMINGBAN
20
"You ___ wrong!" : ARESO
22
Peach ___ (dessert) : MELBA
23
Title bear of 1960s TV : GENTLEBEN
26
Says "Come on, try harder!," say : URGES
30
Classic theater name : ROXY
31
"Le Coq ___" : DOR
33
Height: Abbr. : ALT
34
"___ Marlene" (W.W. II song) : LILI
37
Half of dos : UNO
39
Charles Nelson ___, longtime "Match Game" panelist : REILLY
41
Receptacle for some donations : USEDCLOTHINGBIN
44
1910s-'20s flivver : MODELT
45
Make equal, as the score : TIE
46
Simplicity : EASE
47
Postpone, with "off" : PUT
48
Center of a simile : ASA
50
Peeved state : SNIT
52
Crush, with "on" : STOMP
54
"It's so good," in Paris : CESTSIBON
59
Bewildered : ATSEA
61
Milan's home : ITALY
62
Lenten treat : HOTCROSSBUN
67
Edge : RIM
68
Mount where Noah landed : ARARAT
69
President before Wilson : TAFT
70
Adam's madam : EVE
71
Sags : DROOPS
72
"Scat!" : SHOO
73
Filming locale : SET
Down
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Change the price on at the store : RETAG
2
In the know : AWARE
3
The "heel" of the Arabian Peninsula : YEMEN
4
Leave the band and strike out on one's own : GOSOLO
5
Exclamation before "How cute!" : AWW
6
52, in old Rome : LII
7
"___ at 'em!" : LEMME
8
Good's opposite : EVIL
9
Abigail of "Dear Abby" : VANBUREN
10
Sir Edward who composed "Pomp and Circumstance" : ELGAR
11
Point on a 13-Down : NIB
12
"Made in the ___" : USA
13
Writing implement : PEN
19
Darn, as socks : MEND
21
Walk purposefully : STRIDE
24
Rejoices : EXULTS
25
___ means (not at all) : BYNO
27
Emperor after Nero : GALBA
28
___ Island (onetime immigrants' arrival point) : ELLIS
29
Broadway songwriter Jule : STYNE
32
China and environs, once, with "the" : ORIENT
34
Swellings : LUMPS
35
Has left the office : ISOUT
36
Caused : LEDTO
38
Mel who was #4 at the Polo Grounds : OTT
40
"Aha!" : IGETIT
42
Nonsense : CLAPTRAP
43
Sound of crowd disapproval : HISS
49
King beaters : ACES
51
Really digs : ISINTO
53
Prefix with economics : MACRO
55
Certain bridge positions : EASTS
56
Reveals : BARES
57
Martini go-with : OLIVE
58
Citi Field player, for short : NYMET
60
Bar habitués : SOTS
62
Owned : HAD
63
Bobby who was #4 at Boston Garden : ORR
64
Chinese "way" : TAO
65
"Humbug!" : BAH
66
Sci-fi saucer : UFO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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