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New York Times, Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Author:
Barry Boone
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
37-Across : Middle of the quote
TotalDebutLatest
76/2/200810/5/2011
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0122110
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
221.671446%
Barry Boone

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {J} This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Boone. Tuesday freshness: 80%
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M
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© 2009, The New York Times11/3/9 ( No. 21,910 )
Across
1
With 73-Across, former New York governor : MARIO
6
Enter unannounced, with "in" : BARGE
11
Military mess workers, for short : KPS
14
Improve : AMEND
15
Lucy's friend on "I Love Lucy" : ETHEL
16
W.W. II female : WAC
17
Gila woodpeckers nest in them : CACTI
18
Layers of paint : COATS
19
___ crossroads : ATA
20
Start of a quote by 1-/73-Across : YOUCAMPAIGNIN
23
Rank below cpl. : PFC
25
Not talking : MUM
26
What Fred Ott did in the first movie to be copyrighted : SNEEZED
27
Crème ___ crème : DELA
29
Astronaut's work environment, for short : ZEROG
31
Actress Turner : LANA
32
Put down, as an uprising : QUELL
34
Not ___ eye in the house : ADRY
36
Brits call it "the pond": Abbr. : ATL
37
Middle of the quote : POETRYYOU
41
"Gimme ___ ding!" : DAT
44
___ gin fizz : SLOE
45
Fires : SACKS
49
Memo starter : INRE
51
Win the World Series in four games, say : SWEEP
54
Perlman of "Cheers" : RHEA
55
Sign painter's help : STENCIL
57
Crosses (out) : XES
59
___ McMuffin : EGG
60
End of the quote : GOVERNINPROSE
63
Prefix with cycle or sex : UNI
64
Ancient Aegean region : IONIA
65
Surgeon's assistant : NURSE
68
___ City (Las Vegas nickname) : SIN
69
Standing at attention : ERECT
70
Trojan War epic : ILIAD
71
"___ Te Ching" : TAO
72
Drawer holders : DESKS
73
See 1-Across : CUOMO
Down
1
Start of many a Scottish family name : MAC
2
Flu fighters: Abbr. : AMA
3
One of the three green R's : RECYCLE
4
Call ___ question : INTO
5
Hatred : ODIUM
6
Turned out : BECAME
7
Basic building block : ATOM
8
Gershwin composed one "in blue" : RHAPSODY
9
Blow one's top : GETANGRY
10
Elmer the Bull's mate : ELSIE
11
December celebration : KWANZAA
12
"Beware the fury of a ___ man": John Dryden : PATIENT
13
Iran-Contra, e.g. : SCANDAL
21
Slangy response to "Why?" : CUZ
22
Hair goop : GEL
23
Instantly, for short : PDQ
24
Fire: Fr. : FEU
28
Matterhorn, e.g. : ALP
30
___ show (carnival attraction) : RAREE
33
Part of U.C.L.A. : LOS
35
Casual greetings : YOS
38
"Hamlet" setting : ELSINORE
39
Water-skiers' holds : TOWLINES
40
Former Mideast inits. : UAR
41
Emotion conveyed by wrinkling one's nose : DISGUST
42
Willa Cather's "My ___" : ANTONIA
43
Golfer Lee : TREVINO
46
"Toodle-oo!" : CHEERIO
47
Unit of gunpowder : KEG
48
Slump : SAG
50
Cincinnati-to-Pittsburgh dir. : ENE
52
Ones living abroad : EXPATS
53
Each : PER
56
"I can't remember if I ___" ("American Pie" lyric) : CRIED
58
___ the Hedgehog (video game) : SONIC
61
Paper cut, e.g. : NICK
62
Navigator on the Enterprise : SULU
66
Uncle ___ : SAM
67
Old Tokyo : EDO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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