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New York Times, Monday, March 30, 2009

Author:
Andrea Carla Michaels
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
65-Across : Brink
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Andrea Carla Michaels

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 15 for Ms. Michaels. Monday freshness: 32%
Andrea Carla Michaels notes:

I had made a nice puzzle with SINGLE, DOUBLE, TRIPLE Will pushed me to add a QUADRUPLE. I already had TRIPLE BYPASS, but needed the BYPASS for QUADRUPLE BYPASS. So TRIPLE became LAYERCAKE 15 so then I had to make all of them 15. I didn't think I could do it, but was thrilled that he had pushed me in the end. First indication that four was rapidly becoming the new three... That was the end of an era for me. I think I've only had one or two three-themed puzzles since then.

It was around this time I heard about the blogs, I think, and that I had a reputation to uphold as a Miss Monday!

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© 2009, The New York Times3/30/9 ( No. 21,692 )
Across
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Side of a doorway : JAMB
5
1928 Oscar winner Jannings : EMIL
9
___ and dangerous : ARMED
14
Actor Morales : ESAI
15
Western locale called the Biggest Little City in the World : RENO
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Late hotel queen Helmsley : LEONA
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Small hotel room specification : SINGLEOCCUPANCY
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Modern workout system : TAEBO
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Fan sound : WHIR
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"Hel-l-lp!" : SOS
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Capone and Pacino : ALS
25
Sticky stuff : GOO
27
1944 thriller with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck : DOUBLEINDEMNITY
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___-bitty : ITTY
37
Falco of "The Sopranos" : EDIE
38
Ad ___ per aspera (Kansas' motto) : ASTRA
39
Former AT&T rival : GTE
40
Princess Diana's family name : SPENCER
42
Suffix with president : IAL
43
Eagle's nest : AERIE
45
Trojan War hero : AJAX
46
Years, in Latin : ANNI
47
Baked dessert with lemon filling, maybe : TRIPLELAYERCAKE
50
Partner of long. in a G.P.S. location : LAT
51
Small pouch : SAC
52
"___ sells seashells by the seashore" (tongue twister) : SHE
54
Bulletin board fastener : TACK
58
Oliver's love in "As You Like It" : CELIA
62
Serious heart surgery : QUADRUPLEBYPASS
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Brink : VERGE
66
Continental money : EURO
67
Author Morrison : TONI
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Words to live by : CREED
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TV's warrior princess : XENA
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Former jets to J.F.K. : SSTS
Down
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Words said in fun : JEST
2
Where India is : ASIA
3
Lion's hair : MANE
4
Chronic whiner : BIGBABY
5
Before, poetically : ERE
6
Cat's plaint : MEOW
7
1/12 of a foot : INCH
8
Graph points : LOCI
9
Swiss peak : ALP
10
Deduces : REASONS
11
Not stereo : MONO
12
Letter attachments: Abbr. : ENCS
13
When the sun shines : DAY
18
Laze about : LOLL
19
Impulse : URGE
24
Ooze : SEEP
26
Poet Khayyám : OMAR
27
Probe persistently : DIGAT
28
Stream critter : OTTER
29
Wombs : UTERI
30
Like a score of 10 for 10 : IDEAL
31
Japanese fighter : NINJA
32
Go bad, as teeth : DECAY
33
Singer Turner's autobiography : ITINA
34
Drug that calms the nerves, slangily : TRANK
35
New Haven collegian : YALIE
40
Actress Ward : SELA
41
Old flames : EXES
44
Start of a daily school recital : IPLEDGE
46
Opposite of refuses : ACCEPTS
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"___, Brute?" : ETTU
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Bordering on pornographic : RACY
52
Litigant : SUER
53
Tortoise's race opponent : HARE
55
Peak : APEX
56
Word in many a Nancy Drew title : CLUE
57
"Show Boat" composer Jerome : KERN
59
Neighbor of Vietnam : LAOS
60
"Money ___ everything" : ISNT
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Sale tag caution : ASIS
62
Shopping channel : QVC
63
Scarlet : RED
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Feathered neckwear : BOA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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