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New York Times, Thursday, February 25, 2010

Author:
Holden Baker
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
67-Across : Remnants
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Holden Baker

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 This is puzzle # 15 for Mr. Baker. Thursday freshness: 84%
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© 2010, The New York Times2/25/10 ( No. 22,024 )
Across
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Antiaircraft missile : STINGER
6
Au ___ : GRATIN
10
Apple offering : IMAC
14
NPR's "Only ___" : AGAME
15
Ubangi tributary : UELE
16
Choice at checkout : CASH
17
Inspiration for "Troilus and Cressida" : ILIAD
18
"Look at me, ___ helpless ..." (opening to "Misty") : IMAS
19
See 23-Across : ERIE
20
When said three times, a yuletide song : LETITSNOW
22
Picnics, e.g. : OUTINGS
23
With 19-Across, borderer of four states : LAKE
24
Frees, in a way : UNPINS
25
Follow relentlessly : DOG
28
Simple sort : PEASANT
31
Not so attractive : UGLIER
33
Mixed : ASSORTED
38
Clod : CRETIN
39
Title role in a 1950s TV western : RINTINTIN
41
Bear in the sky : URSA
42
Stick-to-it-iveness : TENACITY
44
Artisan whose work is featured in this puzzle? : TINSMITH
46
County seat on the Des Moines River : FTDODGE
48
___ pal : GAL
49
Well-defined : DISTINCT
53
Bean pot : OLLA
55
Is too cool : ROCKS
56
1957 Disney tearjerker : OLDYELLER
61
One in civvies who maybe shouldn't be : AWOL
62
Lost traction : SLID
63
Santa ___, Calif. : CLARA
64
Scratch : KALE
65
What a getaway car may be waiting in : IDLE
66
Literary invalid : TINYTIM
67
Remnants : ENDS
68
It's not good for conducting : TINEAR
69
Oddballs : GEEKS
Down
1
Fly (through) : SAIL
2
"Sleeping" sensation : TINGLE
3
Amble, e.g. : GAIT
4
P.D.A. communiqué : EMAIL
5
Delay cause : REDTAPE
6
Neighbor of Liberia : GUINEA
7
San ___, Italy : REMO
8
"There oughta be ___!" : ALAW
9
Parts opposite some handles : TINES
10
Freeze over : ICEUP
11
Happy hour order : MARTINI
12
Petula Clark's "___ of the Times" : ASIGN
13
Knight's activity? : CHESS
21
Emmy-winning Tom of "Picket Fences" : SKERRITT
22
Not conned by : ONTO
24
In a very generous manner : UNSTINTINGLY
25
Main, e.g. : DUCT
26
Figure in Magic: The Gathering : OGRE
27
Valley ___, redundantly named California community : GLEN
29
RCA competitor : SANYO
30
Actor John : ASTIN
32
1986 showbiz autobiography : ITINA
34
Some punch for punch : RUM
35
H.S. math : TRIG
36
"Cómo ___?" : ESTA
37
Gary who invented the Pet Rock : DAHL
40
"___ be a pleasure" : ITD
43
Regulated pollutants, for short : CFCS
45
"Eeny-meeny-miney-mo" activity : SELECTING
47
Walk unsteadily : DODDER
49
Captain of the Golden Hind : DRAKE
50
Any resident of 46-Across : IOWAN
51
Termagant : SCOLD
52
Bell sounds : TINKLES
54
"Abandon hope ___ ..." : ALLYE
56
___ English 800 (Miller brand) : OLDE
57
Oscar winner Kedrova : LILA
58
Missing the boat, say : LATE
59
Senta's suitor in "The Flying Dutchman" : ERIK
60
Some butters : RAMS
62
1960s event : SITIN

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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