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New York Times, Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Author:
Tim Wescott
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
40-Across : Letters after two slashes
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Tim Wescott

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Wescott. Wednesday freshness: 65%
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© 2008, The New York Times12/31/8 ( No. 21,603 )
Across
1
Gillette razor : ATRA
5
Meal-in-a-can brand : ALPO
9
Alarming : SCARY
14
In view : SEEN
15
Noggin : BEAN
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Divided Asian land : KOREA
17
Feel like quarreling about something : HAVEABONETOPICK
20
Gangster's code of silence : OMERTA
21
On ___ with (even with) : APAR
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___'wester : SOU
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No halfway effort : TOTALCOMMITMENT
26
Rand who wrote "Atlas Shrugged" : AYN
27
Sch. where Shaquille O'Neal played basketball : LSU
28
Writer's guidelines : SPECS
32
Spanish uncles : TIOS
35
Mexican restaurant offering : TACO
39
"Heads up!," e.g. : ALERT
40
Letters after two slashes : WWW
41
Grounds for a good night's sleep? : DECAF
42
Dick Van ___ : DYKE
43
Addlebrain : LOON
44
Skilled : ADEPT
45
"___ see it ..." : ASI
47
Enterprise inits. : USS
49
Basis of a false arrest, perhaps : TRUMPEDUPCHARGE
58
Suffix with hotel : IER
59
Richard and Jane in court : ROES
60
Gain back : RECOUP
61
Going past the fourth quarter, say : PLAYINGOVERTIME
64
Altimeter user : PILOT
65
Again : ANEW
66
Hamburg's river : ELBE
67
Informal reply to "Who's there?" : ITSME
68
Like the Beatles' Sadie : SEXY
69
U.K. military medals : DSOS
Down
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Give ___ in the arm : ASHOT
2
"I love you," in Spanish : TEAMO
3
Support with stone, as an embankment : REVET
4
"It's the end of ___" : ANERA
5
Monastic jurisdiction : ABBACY
6
"Bus 9 to Paradise" author Buscaglia : LEO
7
___ Games : PANAM
8
Common lunch hr. : ONEPM
9
Women's hybrid clothing : SKORTS
10
Steal, slangily : COP
11
Greet the day : ARISE
12
A little advance work : RECON
13
Native of NE Siberia : YAKUT
18
"Finally!" : ATLAST
19
Call after a toss : TAILS
24
When a football may be hiked : ONTWO
25
No longer bright, as colors : MUTED
28
"___ but true" : SAD
29
Use diligently : PLY
30
"A cockroach!" : EEK
31
Alfredo sauce ingredient : CREAM
33
"Sands of ___ Jima" : IWO
34
Confess : OWNUP
36
Dead man's hand card : ACE
37
Gown's partner : CAP
38
"How ___ Has the Banshee Cried" (Thomas Moore poem) : OFT
41
One of a seasonal octet : DASHER
43
Use as a bed : LIEON
46
"Obey your thirst" sloganeer, once : SPRITE
48
Off the wall : SCREWY
49
Hedren of Hitchcock's "The Birds" : TIPPI
50
Activated again, as a burner : RELIT
51
Range extending south from the Kara Sea : URALS
52
"At the Milliner's" painter : DEGAS
53
Auto route from Me. to Fla. : USONE
54
Did one's part? : ACTED
55
Agitates : ROILS
56
Okra stew : GUMBO
57
They're guarded at the Olympics : EPEES
62
___ Kippur : YOM
63
Annoy : VEX

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

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