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New York Times, Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Author:
Allan E. Parrish
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
14-Across : Director De Palma
TotalDebutLatest
397/1/20025/19/2015
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CircleScrabDebutFresh
31.6510338%
Allan E. Parrish

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JV} This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. Parrish. Tuesday freshness: 89%
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C
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© 2012, The New York Times11/20/12 ( No. 23,023 )
Across
1
___ pants : CAPRI
6
Voting alliance : BLOC
10
Boxer Riddick : BOWE
14
Director De Palma : BRIAN
15
Flying: Prefix : AERO
16
Nadir's opposite : APEX
17
Quite cold : GELID
18
Skateboard park feature : RAMP
19
Left in : KEPT
20
Provision for ending many a mortgage : BALLOONPAYMENT
23
2011 Huffington Post purchaser : AOL
24
Sergeants major, e.g.: Abbr. : NCOS
25
Amuse : DISTRACT
30
Where Noah made landfall : ARARAT
34
Big Ten football powerhouse, for short : OSU
35
Aircraft with pontoons : FLOATPLANE
37
Quite unoriginal : BANAL
40
Eye, poetically : ORB
41
Thread of a screw, e.g. : HELIX
42
1970 Freda Payne hit : BANDOFGOLD
45
L.A. winter hours : PST
46
Snowmobile brand : SKIDOO
47
Google queries : SEARCHES
50
Flying fish-eaters : ERNS
52
Go after : WOO
53
Weekend publication since 1941 : PARADEMAGAZINE
60
Pig's tail feature : CURL
61
MS-DOS alternative : UNIX
62
Late-night coffee, maybe : DECAF
63
Helen Crump Taylor's TV stepson : OPIE
64
Salinger heroine : ESME
65
All thumbs : INEPT
66
Pier : QUAY
67
Favorable tournament position : SEED
68
___ Kefauver, 1956 vice-presidential candidate : ESTES
Down
1
Former N.Y.C. club : CBGB
2
___ 51 (ufologist's interest) : AREA
3
Hard-to-take person : PILL
4
Vituperate : RAILAT
5
___ plumbing : INDOOR
6
Home for an owl, maybe : BARN
7
Bound : LEAP
8
Financial adviser Suze : ORMAN
9
Mimic : COPYCAT
10
Common fund-raiser : BAKESALE
11
Unreserved : OPEN
12
Boohooed : WEPT
13
Business card abbr. : EXT
21
Count ___, character in the Lemony Snicket books : OLAF
22
Transform (into) : MORPH
25
TV/radio host Lou : DOBBS
26
Chris with the 1991 hit "Wicked Game" : ISAAK
27
Islam's largest denomination : SUNNI
28
Jam up : CLOG
29
Pamplona runners : TOROS
31
Sampson of the 1980s-'90s N.B.A. : RALPH
32
Biscotti flavoring, sometimes : ANISE
33
Pastors' readings : TEXTS
36
Qualified : ABLE
38
Cannonball of jazz fame : ADDERLEY
39
Irish lullaby syllables : LOORA
43
Melted-cheese dishes : FONDUES
44
Deputy ___ (Terrytoons character) : DAWG
48
One who sets the stage? : ROADIE
49
Deceives : COZENS
51
Rationality : SENSE
53
___ platter : PUPU
54
La Scala presentation : ARIA
55
Marcel Marceau, for one : MIME
56
Got rid of : AXED
57
Rapper who co-starred in "Ricochet" : ICET
58
Scruff : NAPE
59
Small salamanders : EFTS
60
___ au vin : COQ

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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