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New York Times, Thursday, February 24, 2005

Author:
Patrick Merrell
Editor:
Will Shortz
16-Across : Dirt
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551.6149348%
Patrick Merrell

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {JKQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 42 for Mr. Merrell. Thursday freshness: 98%
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© 2005, The New York Times2/24/5 ( No. 20,197 )
Across
1
Prefix with industry : AGRO
5
Pace : CLIP
9
Malfunction : ACTUP
14
City whose major league baseball team was once named the Naps : CLEVELAND
16
Dirt : PORNO
17
Domestic animal thought to bring good luck : CALICOCAT
18
Persian Gulf noblemen : EMIRS
19
Quiet end? : UDE
20
Was outstanding : OWED
21
Charge for cash : ATMFEE
22
Country for which a cat was named : SIAM
24
Readies for drilling : NUMBS
26
Mrs. Victor Laszlo : ILSA
27
"___ With Love" : TOSIR
29
Singer Edith : PIAF
30
Back lot lot : SETS
31
"Little House on the Prairie" family name : OLESON
33
Airplane wing parts : SLATS
35
Southern title-holder : MISSMISSISSIPPI
40
Adagio and allegro : TEMPI
41
Scalding, as coffee : TOOHOT
42
Job for a barber : BUSH
45
Snookums : BABY
47
Fastens, in a way : SNAPS
48
Words that are a treat to hear? : ONME
49
Archangel of salvation : URIEL
51
One available in Mex. : SRTA
52
Pays off : BRIBES
54
Newbery-winning author ___ Lowry : LOIS
56
Mother: Var. : MAM
57
Personality : COLOR
58
Plan for vacations : TIMESHARE
60
Directly from the side : ABEAM
61
Vaudeville performances : STAGEACTS
62
Seed's exterior : TESTA
63
Old talk show host Joe : PYNE
64
Johann who wrote the Swiss national anthem : WYSS
Down
1
Habituate : ACCUSTOM
2
Flowers with sword-shaped leaves : GLADIOLI
3
Studio output : RELEASES
4
Egg: Prefix : OVI
5
Rodeo sight : CLOWN
6
Prepare to skate : LACEUP
7
Cause for suppression of evidence : INADMISSIBILITY
8
July hrs. in Vegas : PDT
9
Adopt-___ : APET
10
Post-disaster appointments : COMMISSIONS
11
Hardly anything : TRIFLE
12
Discord : UNREST
13
Stand in for : POSEAS
15
Prefix with system : ECO
21
Of equal speed : ASFAST
23
Blow it : MISSTHEBOAT
25
Vacation isle : BALI
28
Center of a former empire : ROME
32
Aura : NIMBUS
34
General ___ chicken : TSOS
36
Rigging support : SPAR
37
Site for people in white coats : PHARMACY
38
Kellogg's brand : POPTARTS
39
Words in "The Little Mermaid" after "The human world ..." : ITSAMESS
42
University of Ohio athlete : BOBCAT
43
Prepare for a massage, perhaps : UNROBE
44
Flexes one's zygomatic muscles : SMILES
46
Royal's attendant : YEOMAN
50
Monarch's loyal subject : LIEGE
53
Aretha Franklin's Grammy-nominated sister : ERMA
55
Dir. for a ship : SSE
58
Recipe amt. : TSP
59
Turn left : HAW

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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