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New York Times, Thursday, November 3, 2011

Author:
Parker Lewis
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
41-Across : "It must be ___ news day"
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
48/11/20118/18/20161
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.662331%
Parker Lewis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 42 Missing: {FZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Lewis. Thursday freshness: 9%
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© 2011, The New York Times11/3/11 ( No. 22,640 )
Across
1
Certain lamp goo : LAVA
5
Home : ABODE
10
Subject of an exhaustive E.P.A. study? : SMOG
14
Give ___ up : ALEG
15
Thoroughly enjoy : SAVOR
16
Monarch moniker, for short : QEII
17
Part of an equine pedigree : SIRE
18
California's Santa ___ University : CLARA
19
Cemetery sights : URNS
20
Nearly impossible target, literally : HAYNEEDLESTACK
23
Apt name for a crime boss : DON
24
Gist : MEAT
25
One who's enraptured, say, literally : CANDYKIDSTORE
31
Ship navigation hazard : ICE
33
Detected : SEEN
34
Equatorial land : KENYA
35
Promenade : MALL
37
Weenie : DWEEB
40
Caboose : REAR
41
"It must be ___ news day" : ASLOW
43
Some jeans : LEES
45
Young ___ : UNS
46
Inadvertently destructive sort, literally : CHINABULLSHOP
50
Mardi follower : GRAS
51
Five pairs : TEN
52
Something rapidly deteriorating goes to it, literally : HANDHELLBASKET
59
A good one is cracked : JOKE
60
"Bye-bye, mon ami" : ADIEU
61
Something that's just for starters? : ANTE
62
"The Lord of the Rings," e.g. : EPIC
63
Set the volume of to zero : MUTED
64
"Chocolat" actress Olin : LENA
65
Weasel relatives : MINK
66
Chimpersonators? : APERS
67
Purpose of many a doctor's visit : EXAM
Down
1
Pirate's punishment : LASH
2
Inter ___ : ALIA
3
First part of an I.P. address? : VERY
4
A chair usually has one : AGENDA
5
Rose : ASCENDED
6
Treadless : BALD
7
Like faces, typically : OVAL
8
Bread : DOREMI
9
Cleared : ERASED
10
One without a title : SQUATTER
11
Chicago exchange, informally, with "the" : MERC
12
Porcine protest : OINK
13
Division units, for short : GIS
21
Ages upon ages : EONS
22
Job to do : TASK
25
Stringed instruments : CELLI
26
Wood used in Voldemort's wand : YEW
27
Sound at a funeral : KNELL
28
Top : ONEUP
29
Film private : RYAN
30
They may ring or have rings : EARS
31
Jobs plan, once : IMAC
32
Convert, in a way : CASH
36
Certain beer bottle : LONGNECK
38
Sushi staple : EEL
39
Intimates : BESTBUDS
42
___ of the state : WARD
44
2000 World Series locale : SHEA
47
Grand ___ Island : BAHAMA
48
Depleted : USEDUP
49
Marked down : ONSALE
52
Neighbors of the Navajo : HOPI
53
Similar : AKIN
54
Having less fat : LITE
55
Uninviting look : LEER
56
Building toy brand : KNEX
57
Italian mount : ETNA
58
___ U.S.A. : TEAM
59
Scout's brother : JEM

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4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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