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New York Times, Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Author:
Herre Schouwerwou
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
66-Across : Club in a sand trap
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This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Schouwerwou. Tuesday freshness: 43%
Herre Schouwerwou notes:
The story began with a warm "Welcome" from Will. My first accepted crossword now yours to fill! After 30 months in the queue this ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
"Both words can follow X" type theme, Herre using DOUBLE TAKE to indicate that X = TAKE. HEART SHAPE = TAKE HEART and TAKE SHAPE, ... read more
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© 2016, The New York Times12/27/16 ( No. 24,521 )
Across
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Tease good-naturedly : JOSH
5
Knock down a notch : ABASE
10
Old-fashioned outburst : EGAD
14
___ Bunt, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" henchwoman : IRMA
15
Gently protest : DEMUR
16
Some music in Mumbai : RAGA
17
*Valentine outline : HEARTSHAPE
19
Cry at the start of a poker game : IMIN
20
Blood line : AORTA
21
"___ you nuts?" : ARE
22
Trail for a dog : SCENT
23
Summer clock setting: Abbr. : DST
24
*Cost to enter a bar, maybe : COVERCHARGE
27
Dress style : ALINE
29
"Excusez-___" : MOI
30
Controversial novel of 1955 : LOLITA
32
*Folksy : DOWNHOME
37
With: Fr. : AVEC
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Nonkosher entree : HAM
39
Excited and then some : AGOG
40
*What to do when coming face to face with a bear : BACKAWAY
43
Partial rainbow near the horizon : SUNDOG
45
What framed Roger Rabbit? : CEL
46
Watch a season's worth of episodes in one sitting, say : BINGE
47
*Delayed consequence : AFTEREFFECT
52
"Illmatic" rapper : NAS
55
Lose it completely : GOAPE
56
Thor or Loki : GOD
57
"All ___ lost" : ISNOT
59
Follower of anything and everything : ELSE
60
Surprised reaction ... or a hint to what can precede both halves of the answers to the starred clues : DOUBLETAKE
62
"Just do it" sloganeer : NIKE
63
Doldrums feeling : ENNUI
64
Forthwith, on a memo : ASAP
65
Throw in the trash : TOSS
66
Club in a sand trap : WEDGE
67
Actor Ifans of "The Amazing Spider-Man" : RHYS
Down
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Crusade against "infidels" : JIHAD
2
Stackable cookies : OREOS
3
Know-it-all : SMARTALEC
4
N.H.L.'s ___ Memorial Trophy : HART
5
Billboards, e.g. : ADS
6
Babysitter's request : BEHAVE
7
Verb that's conjugated "amo, amas, amat ..." : AMARE
8
Parent who "does it all" : SUPERMOM
9
Before, poetically : ERE
10
___ Kane, resident of soap TV's Pine Valley : ERICA
11
Devotee of eSports : GAMER
12
Ripening, as cheese : AGING
13
"Purgatorio" and "Paradiso" poet : DANTE
18
Silent, as an agreement : TACIT
22
Clamber up, as a pole : SHIN
25
Go ___ diet : ONA
26
Dairy animal : COW
28
Spank : LICK
30
Research site : LAB
31
Ingredients in a Caesar salad, to Caesar? : OVA
32
New Year's ___ : DAY
33
Chill (with) : HANG
34
Humorist who wrote "Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker" : OGDENNASH
35
Sound from a 26-Down : MOO
36
Ingredient in a Caesar salad : EGG
38
Suffering from senility, say : HALFGONE
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Pastoral piece? : ACRE
42
Tiny : WEE
43
"___ 'em!" (canine command) : SIC
44
Loosen, as a bow : UNTIE
46
One getting a bite at night? : BEDBUG
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007, e.g. : AGENT
48
Leaf of a book : FOLIO
49
Jobs to do : TASKS
50
Swords in modern pentathlons : EPEES
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Lost's opposite : FOUND
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"Good to go" : AOKAY
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Staircase parts : STEPS
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Symbol to the left of a zero on a phone : STAR
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Mountain ___ (soda) : DEW
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More than a fib : LIE

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

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