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New York Times, Saturday, March 8, 2008

Author:
Brad Wilber
Editor:
Will Shortz
18-Across : First Fiesta Bowl winner: Abbr.
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Brad Wilber

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 31 Missing: {FQWX} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Wilber. Saturday freshness: 40%
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© 2008, The New York Times3/8/8 ( No. 21,305 )
Across
1
Big flap on the road? : SPLASHGUARD
12
Yearbook div. : SRS
15
Song sung by Mehitabel in Broadway's "Shinbone Alley" : TOUJOURSGAI
16
Treaty of Rome org. : EEC
17
Traitorous : UNPATRIOTIC
18
First Fiesta Bowl winner: Abbr. : ASU
19
Since : AGO
20
Algorithm component : STEP
21
Forgoes a cab, say : LEGSIT
23
Nickelodeon nut : REN
24
Rijksmuseum subject : REMBRANDT
26
Ready to be driven : TEEDUP
30
Poetry Out Loud contest org. : NEA
31
Vandals' target : GAUL
32
Tennis's Ivanovic : ANA
33
Est., once : SSR
34
___-Ball : SKEE
35
Sketching : LIMNING
39
She's entertaining : HOSTESS
41
Abba's "___ the Music Speak" : ILET
42
Subj. of the 2006 film "The Good Shepherd" : CIA
44
Identification aid in an obituary : NEE
45
Sponsoring publication of TV's "Project Runway" : ELLE
46
Prefix with culture : AVI
47
The Danube flows through it : SERBIA
51
People in a rush : ATTACKERS
54
Host and winner of the 1966 World Cup: Abbr. : ENG
55
With 59-Across, it lasted from about 3500 to 1000 B.C. : BRONZE
56
Defeater of Schmeling in 1933 : BAER
59
See 55-Across : AGE
60
Slogan ending : EER
61
Dedicatee of "The Muppet Movie" : EDGARBERGEN
64
Flow checker : DAM
65
Dish with coddled egg : CAESARSALAD
66
___-Mère-Église (D-Day town) : STE
67
Order of ants : HYMENOPTERA
Down
1
Prolific suspense novelist Woods : STUART
2
Soft, thin silk cloth : PONGEE
3
2006 Tony-nominated "Sweeney Todd" actress : LUPONE
4
1977 Steely Dan title track : AJA
5
They're often fried : SOTS
6
Offended : HURT
7
Member of the 1960s Rams' Fearsome Foursome : GRIER
8
Sports biggies : USOPENS
9
Insurance fig. : AGT
10
Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould : RAILBARONS
11
Cook, at times : DICER
12
Dangerous swimmer with an oarlike tail : SEASNAKE
13
Bathtub rings, e.g. : RESIDUES
14
Deep-sixes : SCUTTLES
22
Card : GAGSTER
25
Be in harmony : MESH
27
Bizarrely hellish : DANTEAN
28
Aussie's place of higher learning : UNI
29
Mardi Gras, in the U.K. : PANCAKEDAY
35
Early-birds' opposites : LIEABEDS
36
Ride roughshod over : ILLTREAT
37
"Born to Be Blue" singer : MELTORME
38
Yield some : GIVE
40
Lead-in to a sheepish excuse : SEE
43
Home to some fighters : AIRBASE
48
Charles Darwin's ship H.M.S. ___ : BEAGLE
49
Ready to be driven : INGEAR
50
Steering committee's creation : AGENDA
52
Language in which "k" and "v" are the words for "to" and "in" : CZECH
53
Kitchen gripper : SARAN
57
It rises in the Cantabrian Mountains : EBRO
58
Plaintiff's opposite: Abbr. : RESP
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Beauty : GEM
63
Turncoat : RAT

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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