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New York Times, Thursday, March 2, 2006

Author:
Patrick Merrell
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Across : Flexibly snouted mammal
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Patrick Merrell

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 35 Missing: {QWZ} This is puzzle # 56 for Mr. Merrell. Thursday freshness: 61%
Jim Horne notes:

G.K. added to LADY'S NIGHT = GLADYS KNIGHT; O.S. added to LIVER TONE = OLIVER STONE; etc.

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© 2006, The New York Times3/2/6 ( No. 20,568 )
Across
1
Movement in chorégraphie : PLIE
5
Crusades tactic : SIEGE
10
Heavyweight champ Willard : JESS
14
One best avoided : JINX
15
Synthetic fabric : ARNEL
16
"Fear Factor" comments : UGHS
17
Put one's foot down : STEP
18
Women-only affair? (G.K.) : LADYSNIGHT
20
Mary's boss on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" : LOU
22
___ Pitman, who invented shorthand : ISAAC
23
Brownish color? (O.S.) : LIVERTONE
27
Drudges : SERFS
31
Maternally related : ENATE
32
Scarers : OGRES
34
Home sick : OUT
35
Card game named for an island : BALI
36
Conditions : IFS
37
Reason out : DEDUCE
39
Brewery wagons? (D.E.) : ALEVANS
41
Your left, say? (A.W.) : MYRIGHT
42
Five-time Super Bowl champs, for short : NINERS
43
Some batteries : AAS
44
Leaky noise : SISS
45
Can. province : ONT
46
Flexibly snouted mammal : COATI
48
Aquarium fish : DANIO
49
Stall call : NEIGH
51
Smelly heart or kidney? (F.M.) : RANKORGAN
53
Set one's sights on : AIMAT
55
60's tour site : NAM
56
What a Hell's Angel might take? (C.P.) : HARLEYRIDE
60
"___ your pardon!" : IBEG
64
False god : IDOL
65
Sri Lankan language : TAMIL
66
Blue shade : NAVY
67
With 69-Across, what each set of letters in parentheses represents : MONO
68
'54 event on Bikini atoll : HTEST
69
See 67-Across : GRAM
Down
1
Late-night party attire, for short : PJS
2
Intoxicated : LIT
3
Like Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 : INE
4
Message not left after the beep? : EXPLETIVE
5
"Here's to you!" : SALUT
6
Form 1040, line 32 deduction : IRA
7
They may have twists : ENDINGS
8
Big spout : GEYSER
9
"Lohengrin" soprano : ELSA
10
Power, slangily : JUICE
11
Urge (on) : EGG
12
"Zip it!" : SHH
13
The U.S.S.R. had the first civilian one : SST
19
Former Mideast leader : NASSER
21
Mineral source : ORE
23
It has a cedar tree on its flag : LEBANON
24
Strung out : INALINE
25
Jack who created the film rating system : VALENTI
26
Punch elicitations : OOFS
28
Making rosy-cheeked : ROUGING
29
Purplish-red flower : FUCHSIA
30
Florida university whose mascot is the Hatter : STETSON
33
Popular ice cream : EDYS
36
"___ doing ..." : INSO
38
Winsome : DISARMING
40
___ Comics : ARCHIE
41
Key : MAIN
43
Simultaneously : ATATIME
47
Biblical mount : ARARAT
48
Hosp. designation : DOA
50
American vintner : GALLO
52
Bent : KNELT
54
It's not true : MYTH
56
"Get ___!" : HIM
57
Flutter : ADO
58
Father-and-son White House name : RON
59
Bad-mouth : DIS
61
Word with code or exam : BAR
62
Little ___ of 60's pop : EVA
63
Court locale : GYM

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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