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New York Times, Friday, March 8, 2013

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
43-Across : Imitated a wound-up toy
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Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 26 Missing: {JKZ} This is puzzle # 86 for Ms. Gamache. Friday freshness: 89%
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B
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G
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© 2013, The New York Times3/8/13 ( No. 23,131 )
Across
1
Terminal cases : BAGGAGE
8
Something to do experiments in : LABCOAT
15
One of the Big Three in credit reports : EQUIFAX
16
Eradicate : ABOLISH
17
Baking session : SUNBATH
18
Old West German moniker : DERALTE
19
Goal of a 17-Across : TAN
20
Off the rack : READYTOWEAR
22
Jewish rite : BRIS
24
Tramp : SLOG
25
___ Hawkins Day : SADIE
26
Bald Mountain's range : UINTA
28
Often-affected outburst : EGAD
30
Time to go : TURN
31
Navigator who named Natal : DAGAMA
33
Nice things to be massaged : EGOS
35
Adoption option : PET
36
"The Whiffenpoof Song" ending : BAABAABAA
39
Slush-pile pile: Abbr. : MSS
42
___ cellar : SALT
43
Imitated a wound-up toy : YIPPED
47
Schlemiel's cry : OOPS
49
Providers of football game coverage? : SODS
51
Title woman in a J. P. Donleavy novel : LEILA
52
Big name in water filtration : BRITA
54
Charge : GOAT
56
Shot after a break? : XRAY
57
Bar glasses? : BEERGOGGLES
60
Goal : AIM
61
Recreating, maybe : ONLEAVE
62
It smells on a bug : ANTENNA
64
More dear : STEEPER
65
Sponge : MOOCHER
66
Advanced photocopier features : SORTERS
67
Synchronized : INPHASE
Down
1
One of a tight pair : BESTBUD
2
Some zoo attractions : AQUARIA
3
Really going after, with "for" : GUNNING
4
It was ceded to Brit. in the Treaty of Utrecht : GIB
5
Way off : AFAR
6
Racetrack array : GATES
7
Don't hold your breath : EXHALE
8
Star of 2009's Fame Ball Tour : LADYGAGA
9
Assist with a job : ABET
10
Parts of the Big Apple : BOROS
11
Try to scratch : CLAWAT
12
Greasy, perhaps : OILEDUP
13
Subject of the 2009 biography "Puttin' on the Ritz" : ASTAIRE
14
What "they say our love won't pay," in "I Got You Babe" : THERENT
21
Ruthless : DOGEATDOG
23
Try : STAB
27
Latin trio member : AMAS
29
Behave with respect to : DOBY
32
Small cells : AAAS
34
Take the junk out? : SAIL
37
Post masters? : BLOGGERS
38
There's nothing above it : APEX
39
Icing supervisor? : MOBBOSS
40
Kia model : SORENTO
41
One going over telemarketing lines : SPIELER
44
Ruthless sort : PIRANHA
45
Eatery seen in a "Manhattan" scene : ELAINES
46
Light fright? : DAYMARE
48
Part of many a grid : STREET
50
Torpedo layer : SALAMI
53
Yawning : AGAPE
55
Construction piece with a mate : TENON
58
See 59-Down : OVER
59
With 58-Down, drop by : STOP
63
Command level: Abbr. : ECH

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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