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New York Times, Thursday, February 22, 2001

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Across : Fifth- or sixth-grader
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: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 69 for Ms. Gorski. Thursday freshness: 67%
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C
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M
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© 2001, The New York Times2/22/1 ( No. 18,734 )
Across
1
XXX : CHIS
5
Unnatural, in a way : POSED
10
Place for some icons : APSE
14
Up-to-the-minute : LAST
15
Opponent for Ike : ADLAI
16
Brown-and-white : ROAN
17
What is more : ALSO
18
What old enemies may do : REARM
19
Window-rattling : LOUD
20
Start of a quip : SOURGRAPES
22
"___ be in England ..." : OHTO
23
"Cheerio!" : SEEYA
24
Flop : DUD
26
A pop : PER
27
Measures of some losses: Abbr. : YDS
28
Gymnast's place : BEAM
32
Big leagues : MAJORS
34
When things don't go right : OFFDAY
36
Who "is alone" in a 1987 Sondheim title : NOONE
37
Middle of the quip : MAKESOMEOFTHE
40
Seed coverings : ARILS
41
Volleys : SALVOS
42
Jack and the missus : SPRATS
44
Go back and forth (with) : SPAR
45
Kind of mask : SKI
48
Book after Philemon: Abbr. : HEB
49
Soak (up) : SOP
51
Fifth- or sixth-grader : TWEEN
53
Bumper ___ : CARS
55
End of the quip : BESTWHINES
59
Take ___ (rest) : ANAP
60
Spanish 101 verb : ESTAR
61
"An Essay on Criticism" writer : POPE
62
Microwave : NUKE
63
"Veni" : ICAME
64
Idle fellow? : ERIC
65
Hearty dinner : STEW
66
Colossus : TITAN
67
Go on and on : RANT
Down
1
Swank : CLASSY
2
Having a certain glow : HALOED
3
Time releases : ISSUES
4
Alibi : STORY
5
One of Henry VIII's six : PARR
6
Old music halls : ODEA
7
Sound before "Thanks, I needed that!" : SLAP
8
Dog-___ : EARED
9
Chinatown offering : DIMSUM
10
Singer Guthrie : ARLO
11
Diminish : POOHPOOH
12
Semisweet white wine : SAUTERNE
13
Sign on the dotted line : ENDORSE
21
Bull sessions : GABFESTS
25
William ___, who founded Ralston Purina : DANFORTH
29
A lot of fluff : EFS
30
Hullabaloos : ADOS
31
Half of a 60's quartet : MAMAS
33
Tittles : JOTS
34
Kans. neighbor : OKLA
35
Cry out : YELP
37
Monocled advertising figure : MRPEANUT
38
Mechanical device that operates by compression : AIRBRAKE
39
Eggs : OVA
40
Waste holders : ASHCANS
43
"Very well" : SOBEIT
45
Woman of la casa : SENORA
46
Constrain : KEEPIN
47
Treehopper, e.g. : INSECT
50
"Lethal Weapon 2," "... 3" and "... 4" actor : PESCI
52
Rain check : WIPER
54
Shoot : SPEW
56
Sportscaster's tidbit : STAT
57
Author Janowitz : TAMA
58
Songbird : WREN

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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