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New York Times, Thursday, February 9, 2006

Author:
Ethan Cooper
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Across : Expressing shock, perhaps
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Ethan Cooper

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JQVXZ} This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Cooper. Thursday freshness: 64%
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© 2006, The New York Times2/9/6 ( No. 20,547 )
Across
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Highway safety org. : MADD
5
Country where W. E. B. DuBois died : GHANA
10
Time span : WEEK
14
Tissue additive : ALOE
15
Change, as the margins : RETAB
16
Flatten : IRON
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60-Across, on the golf course : YOUCHEATED
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Chihuahua child : NINO
20
Line on an address form : STREET
21
Get at : SUGGEST
23
Gazetteer data : AREAS
26
Match for elle : LUI
27
60-Across, at the office : ITSALLPOLITICS
33
Singer India ___ : ARIE
34
See 11-Down : CANAL
35
Paulo or Luís, e.g. : SAO
36
Connects with : BINDSTO
39
Parker's protection : THECLUB
41
N.Y.C. sports venue : MSG
42
Foot bones : TARSI
44
Acclivity : RISE
45
60-Across, at the singles bar : SHEWASNTMYTYPE
49
Natl. Dessert Month : OCT
50
A lot of Britney Spears's "Oops ... I Did It Again" : YEAHS
51
Expressing shock, perhaps : BUGEYED
55
Public figure? : NOTARY
59
Letter written as a straight vertical line : ALIF
60
Ungraciousness in defeat : SOURGRAPES
63
Cuzco's home : PERU
64
Straight from the beginning? : ORTHO
65
Stud site : LOBE
66
Give away : TELL
67
Fluorine/carbon compound : FREON
68
Train : SPAR
Down
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Giant with the retired jersey #24 : MAYS
2
Often : ALOT
3
Sullen : DOUR
4
Late : DECEASED
5
Fairy tale girl : GRETEL
6
"Isn't ___ bit like you and me?" (Beatles lyric) : HEA
7
Big inits. in long distance : ATT
8
Dundee denials : NAES
9
Royal name meaning "God's servant" : ABDULLAH
10
Fly by the seat of one's pants : WINGIT
11
With 34-Across, engineering feat completed in 1825 : ERIE
12
Time immemorial : EONS
13
Complicated problem : KNOT
18
Goddess of matrimony : HERA
22
Cunning : GUILE
24
Mississippi's ___ State University : ALCORN
25
Where one might get into hot water : SPA
27
Whence the word "whiskey" : IRISH
28
Hint : TINGE
29
By the bell : ONTIME
30
Long Island airport site : ISLIP
31
Something worth fighting for : CAUSE
32
"___ it!" : SOBE
33
Defense means, briefly : ABMS
37
Keach who played TV's Mike Hammer : STACY
38
Suggests, to the palate : TASTESOF
40
Cave formations : CRYSTALS
43
Hardly a kosher home : STY
46
Pathetic : WOEFUL
47
Myanmar's capital : YANGON
48
Mythical son of Jord : THOR
51
Protestant denom. : BAPT
52
Title beekeeper in a 1997 film : ULEE
53
Song on the Beatles' "Rubber Soul" : GIRL
54
U.S. rebellion leader of 1841-42 : DORR
56
Each : APOP
57
McEntire of country : REBA
58
Belgian river : YSER
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Mountain West Conference player : UTE
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Density symbol : RHO

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

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