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New York Times, Monday, November 26, 2012

Author:
Ed Sessa
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
27-Across : Wee-hours periods, for short
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Edward Sessa

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 15 for Mr. Sessa. Monday freshness: 23%
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© 2012, The New York Times11/26/12 ( No. 23,029 )
Across
1
Dull-colored : DRAB
5
Financial reserves for later years, in brief : IRAS
9
Von ___ family ("The Sound of Music" group) : TRAPP
14
Wife of Charlie Chaplin : OONA
15
Top of the Capitol : DOME
16
Floor machine : WAXER
17
Fish propellers : FINS
18
Of a church flock : LAIC
19
Chilling, as Champagne : ONICE
20
Pancakes : FLATTENSOUT
23
Firmament : SKY
24
What a barber must cut around : EAR
25
Escargot : SNAIL
27
Wee-hours periods, for short : AMS
30
Salsa or guacamole : DIP
32
Denigrates : DEMEANS
36
Rolaids competitor : TUMS
38
Chaz's mother : CHER
40
Spooky : EERIE
41
Waffles : BLOWSHOTANDCOLD
44
Rarely visited room : ATTIC
45
Western alliance since 1949 : NATO
46
One of 18 on a golf course : HOLE
47
Reason for a 10th inning, say : TIEGAME
49
Finish : END
51
Feb. follower : MAR
52
Large amounts of bacon : SLABS
54
Walton of Walmart : SAM
56
Ave. intersectors : STS
59
French toast : AVOTRESANTE
64
Bananalike fruit : PAPAW
66
Algerian port : ORAN
67
Give everyone a hand : DEAL
68
Wahine's greeting : ALOHA
69
F sharp major and others : KEYS
70
Bordeaux buddies : AMIS
71
Change the price on : RETAG
72
Popeye's ___' Pea : SWEE
73
Distinctive Marilyn Monroe facial feature : MOLE
Down
1
Remove, as a hat : DOFF
2
Stir up : ROIL
3
She was the "I" in "The King and I" : ANNA
4
Moisten, as a turkey : BASTE
5
Leisure class : IDLERICH
6
Horse color : ROAN
7
Not quite right : AMISS
8
Inferior : SECONDRATE
9
Cheated on, romantically : TWOTIMED
10
Sought office : RAN
11
Line of rotation : AXIS
12
Amount for Peter Piper : PECK
13
Rabbits, to eagles, e.g. : PREY
21
Wee bit : TAD
22
Dubai's federation: Abbr. : UAE
26
Bloodsucker : LEECH
27
Up, in baseball : ATBAT
28
Prefix with task : MULTI
29
Struck down, biblically : SMOTE
31
Obsolescent directories : PHONEBOOKS
33
Virginia Woolf's "___ of One's Own" : AROOM
34
Nabisco's ___ wafers : NILLA
35
Passover supper : SEDER
37
Big swallows : SWIGS
39
Greek vowel : ETA
42
Scamp : SCALAWAG
43
Gobbledygook : NONSENSE
48
Dallas cager, for short : MAV
50
"Law & Order" figs. : DAS
53
Scatter, as seeds : STREW
55
"___, I'm Adam" : MADAM
56
Trade punches in training : SPAR
57
Scheherazade offering : TALE
58
Good name for a Dalmatian : SPOT
60
Funny Martha of old TV : RAYE
61
Pixar's "Finding ___" : NEMO
62
Homophone for 57-Down : TAIL
63
"If all ___ fails ..." : ELSE
65
"I see it now!" : AHA

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

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