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New York Times, Thursday, December 25, 2008

Author:
Eric Tentarelli
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
45-Across : Torpedoed
TotalDebut
112/25/2008
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.54425%
Eric Tentarelli

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQVZ} Spans: 3 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Tentarelli. Thursday freshness: 14%
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© 2008, The New York Times12/25/8 ( No. 21,597 )
Across
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Choker component : CLASP
6
Music pioneered by Byron Lee and the Dragonaires : SKA
9
___ secretary : MADAM
14
Rummage : RIFLE
15
Suffer : AIL
16
Bygone Olds : ALERO
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Sorkin who created "The West Wing" : AARON
18
Section in a record store : CLASSICAL
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Chestnut-colored mustang offspring? : BROWNBRONCOCOLT
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Its coat of arms includes a vicuña : PERU
23
"Rule, Britannia" composer Thomas : ARNE
24
Nuts : LOCO
27
Like the space around a first-class seat, say : AMPLE
29
Con : SCAM
33
Pitcher Hideo Nomo's birthplace : OSAKA
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"No ___" ("Beats me") : IDEA
37
Ripen : AGE
38
Main dedicatee of an Austin cathedral? : CHIEFTEXANSAINT
42
"Talk to ___," Pedro Almodóvar film : HER
43
Time-honored name? : LUCE
44
Food processor setting : PUREE
45
Torpedoed : SANK
47
David ___, founder of the Libertarian Party : NOLAN
50
A.A.A. jobs : TOWS
51
___ were : ASIT
53
Brick maker : LEGO
55
Hefty invoice for boots and spurs? : GIANTCOWBOYBILL
62
On the fence : NOTSOSURE
63
Dashboard item : RADIO
64
Emasculate : UNMAN
65
Embarrassed, perhaps : RED
66
Last name of Kipling's Kim : OHARA
67
Fresh : SASSY
68
___ Balls (snack cakes) : SNO
69
Masters champ of 1949, 1952 and 1954 : SNEAD
Down
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Grouch : CRAB
2
Epithet that's an anagram of 60-Down : LIAR
3
Big do : AFRO
4
Snail : SLOWPOKE
5
Pasta salad ingredient : PENNE
6
Pelvic bone : SACRUM
7
Overseas shipping unit : KILO
8
Star of Broadway's "QED," 2001-02 : ALANALDA
9
Brick placer : MASON
10
Walker, Cooper and others : ALICES
11
Art ___ : DECO
12
Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL
13
Shed : MOLT
19
Present for viewing ... or prevent from being viewed : SCREEN
21
Bust holder : BRA
24
Ness and Tay : LOCHS
25
Dublin-born film star Milo : OSHEA
26
___ terrier : CAIRN
28
Dot : PIXEL
30
The City of a Thousand Minarets : CAIRO
31
Predecessor of Ford : AGNEW
32
Doles (out) : METES
34
Org. founded by Samuel Gompers : AFL
36
Saharan viper : ASP
39
Garb for Robin Hood and his band : TUNICS
40
Trips through rain forests, maybe : ECOTOURS
41
Famously fast route : AUTOBAHN
46
Home of Fort Scott National Historic Site : KANSAS
48
Light ratio in astronomy : ALBEDO
49
Prefix with romantic : NEO
52
Like some silences : STONY
54
Spinners : GYROS
55
Prey for lions : GNUS
56
College in New Rochelle, N.Y. : IONA
57
Mall conveniences : ATMS
58
Cousin of a treecreeper : WREN
59
Family name suffix in taxonomy : IDAE
60
Money that's an anagram of 2-Down : LIRA
61
Dishwasherful : LOAD

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

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