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New York Times, Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : All the rockets in existence?
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Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQWZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 25 for Ms. Gamache. Wednesday freshness: 43%
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© 2007, The New York Times10/17/7 ( No. 21,162 )
Across
1
The Velvet Fog : TORME
6
Casino pair : DICE
10
Cabaret, e.g. : CLUB
14
Smuggler's stock : OPIUM
15
Giant-screen film format : IMAX
16
Summer wine selection : ROSE
17
All the rockets in existence? : MISSILEUNIVERSE
20
Ask for : SEEK
21
Some emergency cases, for short : ODS
22
Place for shots : TAVERN
23
Noughts-and-crosses win : OOO
25
Brand of shaving products : AFTA
26
"Dry-clean only," e.g.? : TEXTILEMESSAGE
33
Empty (of) : RID
34
Small, as a Beanie Baby : TEENIE
35
First course option : SOUP
36
Does as told : OBEYS
38
___ Andreas fault : SAN
39
Like déjà vu : EERIE
40
Turner who sang "The Best" : TINA
41
Marzipan ingredient : ALMOND
43
Piggy : TOE
44
Cooking utensil from central Spain? : CASTILEIRONPAN
47
Like a starless sky : INKY
48
Alt. spelling : VAR
49
Iran-___ : CONTRA
52
Debtor's letters : IOU
54
___ buco : OSSO
58
HAL 9000, in "2001: A Space Odyssey"? : HOSTILECOMPUTER
61
First-year J.D. candidate : ONEL
62
Restaurant chain acronym : IHOP
63
Thus far : ASYET
64
A sergeant might ask a soldier to pick it up : PACE
65
I.R.S. ID's : SSNS
66
Recipe parts : STEPS
Down
1
Tabbies' mates : TOMS
2
Mayberry boy : OPIE
3
Angry reaction : RISE
4
Animal with a shaggy coat : MUSKOX
5
U.K. record label : EMI
6
Fizzled out : DIED
7
Radio's former "___ in the Morning" : IMUS
8
Poky : CAN
9
Mutual fund redemption charge : EXITFEE
10
Deep fissure : CREVASSE
11
Oral history : LORE
12
"Evil empire" of the '80s : USSR
13
"It's ___ real!" : BEEN
18
Sarge's superior : LOOIE
19
Brewery units : VATS
24
Baseball's Ed and Mel : OTTS
25
Relative key of C major : AMINOR
26
Second-longest human bone : TIBIA
27
Utopias : EDENS
28
Stahl of "60 Minutes" : LESLEY
29
As a friend, to the French : ENAMI
30
Outlet of the left ventricle : AORTA
31
Astronaut ___ Bluford, the first African-American in space : GUION
32
Sport with lunges : EPEE
33
Mil. option : ROTC
37
First N.F.L. QB with consecutive 30-touchdown passing seasons : YATITTLE
39
Novelist Ferber : EDNA
41
Acid neutralizers : ALKALIS
42
"___ Organum" (1620 Francis Bacon work) : NOVUM
45
Crucifix inscription : INRI
46
Subject of the 1999 film "Le Temps Retrouvé" : PROUST
49
Karate blow : CHOP
50
The last Mrs. Chaplin : OONA
51
Minute part of a minute: Abbr. : NSEC
52
A program usually has one : ICON
53
"Stupid me!" : OOPS
55
Eyelid woe : STYE
56
Ooze : SEEP
57
Table scraps : ORTS
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Geezers' replies : EHS
60
Dads : PAS

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

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