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New York Times, Thursday, November 20, 2008

Author:
Pete Muller
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
64-Across : I.R.A. option
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
184/18/20067/16/20177
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
251.6013366%
Pete Muller

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 35 Missing: {JQVXZ} This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Muller. Thursday freshness: 85%
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© 2008, The New York Times11/20/8 ( No. 21,562 )
Across
1
Tobias ___, author of "This Boy's Life" : WOLFF
6
Sound of a sax : WAIL
10
Fish that can detect ultrasound : SHAD
14
Director Kurosawa : AKIRA
15
Kind of sax : ALTO
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Spinner for the Spinners : HIFI
17
Start of a quote by economist Allan Meltzer : CAPITALISM
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Come ___ : ONTO
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First mate's superior, informally : CAPN
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Sanded, e.g. : ABRADED
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Quote, part 2 : WITHOUTFAILURE
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Eastern queen : RANI
27
See 59-Across : STEARNS
28
Consoling words : ITSOK
30
Some monitors, for short : LCDS
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Game pieces : MEN
34
Like most Olympic gymnasts : TEENAGE
37
Dressy accessories : TIEPINS
39
"Either plagiarism or revolution," according to Gauguin : ART
40
Choice that avoids choosing : BOTH
42
"___ bleu!" : SACRE
43
Occasion to say goodbye : FUNERAL
46
Ray who founded McDonald's : KROC
47
Quote, part 3 : ISLIKERELIGION
51
One who believes humans descended from extraterrestrials : RAELIAN
52
20-Across's crew : TARS
53
Image in the Notre Dame de Paris : ANGE
54
End of the quote : WITHOUTSIN
59
With 27-Across, it collapsed in 2008 : BEAR
60
Tribe speaking Chiwere : OTOE
61
Pact since 1993 : NAFTA
62
Web addresses : URLS
63
Constellation between Cygnus and Hercules : LYRA
64
I.R.A. option : TNOTE
Down
1
Extra in "I Was a Male War Bride" : WAC
2
Volga feeder : OKA
3
Edge : LIP
4
Heat producer : FRICTION
5
Palestinian group : FATAH
6
Waldorf salad ingredient : WALNUT
7
Noted ring leader : ALI
8
"Honest to goodness!" : ITSAFACT
9
Winning coach of the first two Super Bowls : LOMBARDI
10
Bars of a sort : SHOALS
11
Mahatma Gandhi, for one : HINDU
12
Pursuing : AFTER
13
Device also called a rectifier : DIODE
18
Blood type, for short : APOS
22
Pours 23-Down on : RINSES
23
See 22-Down : WATER
24
Map box : INSET
25
___ no. : TEL
26
Singer Coolidge : RITA
29
Tokyo theater performance : KABUKI
31
Prefix with surgery : MICRO
32
2005 documentary subtitled "The Smartest Guys in the Room" : ENRON
33
Fraction of an instant: Abbr. : NSEC
35
Off-base? : GONEAWOL
36
Forever and a day : ETERNITY
38
Commonwealth member beginning in 1947 : PAKISTAN
41
Charlemagne ruled it: Abbr. : HRE
43
Manicurists : FILERS
44
1950s tennis champion Gibson : ALTHEA
45
Chinese dynasty a thousand years ago : LIAO
47
Pitcher Hideki ___ : IRABU
48
More there? : SANER
49
Corporate department : LEGAL
50
Menial worker : GRUNT
55
Prominence : TOR
56
West Coast airport inits. : SFO
57
Cousin ___ of "The Addams Family" : ITT
58
Not, to a Scot : NAE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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