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New York Times, Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
37-Across : Home mortgage stats
TotalDebutLatest
2197/31/19952/23/2016
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
6716363439243
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
30221.541,51454%
Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QUXZ} Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzles. Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. This is puzzle # 142 for Ms. Gorski. Wednesday freshness: 84%
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© 2006, The New York Times2/1/6 ( No. 20,539 )
Across
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Nightclub light : NEON
5
Jorge's eight : OCHO
9
Ace taker : JOKER
14
Sailor's patron saint : ELMO
15
Pearl Buck heroine : OLAN
16
Beethoven's "___ Joy" : ODETO
17
Penthouse feature : VIEW
18
6-Down's subj. : HIST
19
Overseas assembly : SENAT
20
Cowboy toppers : IOGALLONHATS
23
Sports facilities : STADIA
24
Spills the beans : TELLSALL
28
A Guthrie : ARLO
30
Snookums : DEARIE
31
French/English conflict that started in 1337 : IOOYEARSWAR
36
Crime lab evidence : DNA
37
Home mortgage stats : PCTS
38
Moviegoer's reprimand : SHH
39
A message may be left after it : BEEP
40
"What a relief!" : AAH
41
Resort area on the U.S./Canada border : IOOOISLANDS
45
Annual carrier of toys : SLEIGH
47
Push : GOAD
48
Like George Carlin : SARDONIC
51
Time for a 52-Down wake-up call? : FIVEAM
55
Natalie Merchant's old group : IOOOOMANIACS
57
Under : SHYOF
60
Chicago paper, for short : TRIB
61
Raised : BRED
62
Christmas wish : PEACE
63
Sight from Bern : AARE
64
Film director Petri : ELIO
65
Noted 1999 hurricane : FLOYD
66
Flexible Flyer, for one : SLED
67
Aid and abet: Abbr. : SYNS
Down
1
English-speaking Caribbean island : NEVIS
2
"Middlemarch" author : ELIOT
3
Watch word? : OMEGA
4
In these times : NOWADAYS
5
"Eet ees so nice!" : OOHLALA
6
One of nine sisters in myth : CLIO
7
Lacks : HASNT
8
Words with go or cheap : ONTHE
9
Rude subway rider : JOSTLER
10
Sight from the Black Sea : ODESSA
11
"Jeopardy!" supercontestant Jennings : KEN
12
In-flight info: Abbr. : ETA
13
Balderdash : ROT
21
Money with Garibaldi's picture : LIRE
22
"Betsy's Wedding" star : ALDA
25
Fifth Avenue spa : ARDEN
26
Like composition paper : LINED
27
Springs : LEAPS
29
Roughly : ORSO
31
"No thanks!" : IPASS
32
Seat of Marion County, Fla. : OCALA
33
Census choice : OTHER
34
Cinemax alternative: Abbr. : SHO
35
Taylor or Tyler : WHIG
39
Uneasy feelings : BADVIBES
41
"Oops!" : IGOOFED
42
"What a mistake!" : OHNO
43
Convertible : SOFABED
44
Reclined : LAIN
46
Boneheadedness : IDIOCY
49
Smidgens : IOTAS
50
Pinkish hue : CORAL
52
See 51-Across : EARLY
53
___ the hole : ACEIN
54
PC program : MSDOS
56
Bog : MIRE
57
Beach bottle letters : SPF
58
Daughter of Loki, in Norse myth : HEL
59
Altitudinous Ming : YAO

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

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