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New York Times, Saturday, March 15, 2008

Author:
David Quarfoot
Editor:
Will Shortz
38-Across : Silicon Valley city
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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David Quarfoot

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 27 Missing: {FJZ} This is puzzle # 25 for Mr. Quarfoot. Saturday freshness: 42%
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© 2008, The New York Times3/15/8 ( No. 21,312 )
Across
1
Judy Garland or Liza Minnelli : GAYICON
8
Sushi covering : SEAWEED
15
It began in 1968, for tennis : OPENERA
16
Targetable : INRANGE
17
"Family Ties" family : KEATONS
18
Football coaching figures : XSANDOS
19
Combustion product : ASH
20
Slice, say : SODAPOP
22
An end to peace? : NIK
23
Behind : RUMP
25
Bashkir's close cousin : TATAR
26
Station : POST
27
Weapon for Wonder Woman : TIARA
29
TV shopper's option : QVC
30
Undertake : SETTO
31
Dancer's guider, for short : STNICK
33
Shallow : SKINDEEP
35
Big name in notebooks : MEAD
37
Chips-in-a-can brand from Lay's : STAX
38
Silicon Valley city : LOSALTOS
42
Top of a slope? : SKIHAT
46
Hill of law : ANITA
47
Milieu for Katarina Witt : EIS
49
Old Testament patriarch : ENOCH
50
Romance, e.g. : TALE
51
Female demon : LAMIA
53
People's 1999 Sexiest Man Alive : GERE
54
City ESE of Utrecht : EDE
55
Botched salon job : BADPERM
57
OB, e.g. : DOC
58
Lagged : RANLATE
60
1970 western named for a fictional Texas city : RIOLOBO
62
Virtuoso : ARTISTE
63
Ethnic conflict : RACEWAR
64
Jacket option : LEATHER
65
Banderas's "The Mambo Kings" co-star, 1992 : ASSANTE
Down
1
Some four-wheelers : GOKARTS
2
Popular costume party costume : APESUIT
3
"Groovy" : YEAHMAN
4
Undesirable result of making a pass?: Abbr. : INT
5
High-ranking suits : CEOS
6
"... then again, maybe I'm wrong" : ORNOT
7
Market for Microsoft : NASDAQ
8
Bodybuilders' prides : SIXPACKS
9
"Scandalized Masks" painter, 1883 : ENSOR
10
"But hark! ___ comes gently to the door": Robert Burns : ARAP
11
Weak : WAN
12
What a superscript in a text might refer one to : ENDNOTE
13
Chanel fragrance for men : EGOISTE
14
Place for a trash can : DESKTOP
21
Some four-wheelers, for short : ATVS
24
Episcopal leader : PRIMATE
26
Warning about people moving from side to side? : PEDXING
28
Speedy express : ACELA
30
Wind : SNAKE
32
Piece of a candy bar? : KAT
34
"___ O.K." : ITS
36
Rodgers and Hammerstein refrain starter : DOEADEER
38
Side : LATERAL
39
One way to do something stupid : ONADARE
40
Bit of cocoa? : SILENTA
41
Fool : SIMP
43
55-Down with fiddles : HOEDOWN
44
Flipper : ACROBAT
45
2003 sci-fi disaster film featuring a subterranean team of "terranauts" : THECORE
48
Bimonthly magazine for environmentalists : SIERRA
51
Stimulating order : LATTE
52
Met's lineup? : ARIAS
55
Blowout : BASH
56
Casual footwear, briefly : MOCS
59
Bombed : LIT
61
Setting for an idyll : LEA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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