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New York Times, Monday, March 1, 2010

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
16-Across : [Crossing my fingers]
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QV} Spans: 2 Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. This is puzzle # 137 for Mr. Quigley. Monday freshness: 65%
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B
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O
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M
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N
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U
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H
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B
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© 2010, The New York Times3/1/10 ( No. 22,028 )
Across
1
1996 candidate Dole : BOB
4
"10 ___ or less" (checkout line sign that grates on grammarians) : ITEMS
9
The real ___ : MCCOY
14
When a plane is due in, for short : ETA
15
Nerve : MOXIE
16
[Crossing my fingers] : IHOPE
17
___ center (community facility) : REC
18
Unrealized gain on an investment : PAPERPROFIT
20
Suffix with cyclo- or Jumbo : TRON
22
Braga a k a the Brazilian Bombshell : SONIA
23
"Bah, humbug!" : PFUI
24
Merely suggest : HINTAT
26
SSW's opposite : NNE
28
Letters on an ambulance : EMS
29
Detective, in slang : SHAMUS
32
Give up, as rights : CEDE
34
Evergreen : FIR
36
Fancy : HIGHFALUTIN
40
"That's ___ haven't heard!" : ONEI
42
"Jaws" menace : SHARK
43
Wished : BADE
44
Good luck charms : RABBITSFEET
47
Charles Dickens pseudonym : BOZ
48
Kuwaiti leader : EMIR
49
Kettledrum : TIMBAL
51
Buddy : PAL
53
Mesh : NET
55
Facet : ASPECT
58
Guthrie with a guitar : ARLO
60
Pat of "Wheel of Fortune" : SAJAK
63
Mountain lift : TBAR
64
They measure the tonnage of trucks : WEIGHSCALES
67
Singer Yoko : ONO
68
W.W. II bomber ___ Gay : ENOLA
69
Outdo : ONEUP
70
Giant great Mel : OTT
71
Copenhageners, e.g. : DANES
72
Tending to ooze : SEEPY
73
Flattens in the ring, for short : KOS
Down
1
Train sleeping spot : BERTH
2
Former "S.N.L." comic Cheri : OTERI
3
1676 Virginia uprising : BACONSREBELLION
4
Little devil : IMP
5
Woman presiding at a banquet : TOASTMISTRESS
6
Giant fair : EXPO
7
Appearance : MIEN
8
Small finch : SERIN
9
Former Russian space station : MIR
10
Take an ax to : CHOP
11
Photo-filled reading matter in the living room : COFFEETABLEBOOK
12
Poppy product : OPIUM
13
Reported Himalayan sightings : YETIS
19
Cosmetic applied with a damp sponge : PANCAKEMAKEUP
21
To the ___ degree : NTH
25
What to say to a doctor with a tongue depressor : AAH
27
Snakelike fish : EEL
30
Terse critiques : UGHS
31
Path down to a mine : SHAFT
33
Talk over? : DUB
34
In favor of : FOR
35
Once ___ blue moon : INA
37
Costing nothing, in Cologne : FREI
38
Wedding vow : IDO
39
___ Percé tribe : NEZ
41
Company called "Big Blue" : IBM
45
"Am ___ your way?" : IIN
46
Atlanta-based sta. : TBS
50
Well-put : APT
51
Manhandled : PAWED
52
Indoor game site : ARENA
54
Tex-Mex sandwiches : TACOS
56
Poetic chapter for Ezra Pound : CANTO
57
Gaits between walks and canters : TROTS
59
Look at amorously : OGLE
61
Tarzan's woman : JANE
62
On the sheltered side : ALEE
65
Contains : HAS
66
Word repeated in Mad magazine's "___ vs. ___" : SPY

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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