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New York Times, Saturday, February 25, 2012

Author:
Barry C. Silk
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
25-Across : Burgeon
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Barry C. Silk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 26 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 64 for Mr. Silk. Saturday freshness: 41%
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M
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© 2012, The New York Times2/25/12 ( No. 22,754 )
Across
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Crowds around noisily : MOBS
5
"In the Still of the Nite" doo-wop group, with "the" : FIVESATINS
15
Beginning of time? : ONEO
16
Somewhat : ALITTLEBIT
17
Korean War weapon : STEN
18
Where to request a knish : KOSHERDELI
19
"___ the brinded cat hath mewed": Shak. : THRICE
21
Like sports cars, briefly : AERO
22
Reagan-era teen, e.g. : XER
23
Modern-day stream : WEBCAST
25
Burgeon : RISE
27
Like some shape shifters? : AMOEBOID
29
Cut bits from, maybe : CENSOR
33
What "-" means in a search query : NOT
34
Big ring rivals : SUMOS
36
Mark of a successful gunfighter : NOTCH
37
They cause blowups : TNTS
39
Like many disabled vehicles : TOWED
41
Positions : LOCI
42
Helped supply a sushi restaurant, say : EELED
44
Promotions may require them, for short : RELOS
46
Chile's main airline : LAN
47
Yarn identifier : DYELOT
49
Bar lines? : LEGALESE
51
Washout : FLOP
53
First bishop of Paris : STDENIS
54
"Looky here!" : OHO
57
___ balls (chocolaty snacks) : OREO
59
1950 sci-fi classic : IROBOT
60
Medium relative : MINDREADER
63
Mini successor : NANO
64
Spy's query at the start of a meeting : AREWEALONE
65
LeAnn Rimes's "Love ___ Army" : ISAN
66
Like legal voters : REGISTERED
67
Take out : DELE
Down
1
Like some top-10 people : MOSTWANTED
2
Like bull's-eyes : ONTHEMONEY
3
One in a stag's litter : BEERBOTTLE
4
"Aah!" : SONICE
5
Tricks : FAKESOUT
6
1969 Peace Prize agcy. : ILO
7
Certain stamp of approval : VISA
8
Fifth element, per Aristotle : ETHER
9
Of atoms' spatial relationships : STERIC
10
The Hebrew Hammer of the Cleveland Indians : ALROSEN
11
J.F.K. speechwriter Sorensen : TED
12
Horned mountain dweller : IBEX
13
View from Memphis : NILE
14
Kerfuffle : STIR
20
Airport fleet : CABS
24
It's south of the Banda Sea : TIMOR
26
Hydroxyl compound : ENOL
28
Tinkertoy bit : DOWEL
30
One of Henderson's record 1,406 : STOLENBASE
31
Off-and-on : OCCASIONAL
32
Bit of paste : RHINESTONE
35
2009 Tennis Hall of Fame inductee : SELES
38
Common portrait subject : SELF
40
Beat : DOGTIRED
43
Actress-turned-nun Hart : DOLORES
45
Abolhassan Bani-___ (first president of Iran) : SADR
48
Clawed : TOREAT
50
Russian playwright Andreyev : LEONID
52
Guideposts magazine founder : PEALE
54
"'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days" poet : OMAR
55
Take on : HIRE
56
Universal donor's type, briefly : ONEG
58
Kitchen drawer? : ODOR
61
Traffic violation, for short : DWI
62
Okla. City-to-Tulsa direction : ENE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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