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New York Times, Thursday, April 15, 2010

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley & Joon Pahk
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
27-Across : Big bushes
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1938/7/199612/22/202321
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385152119522716
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley
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268/5/20081/8/20207
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41234291
ScrabDebutFresh
1.6214572%
joon pahk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {Q} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 138 for Mr. Quigley. This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. pahk. Thursday freshness: 31%
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© 2010, The New York Times4/15/10 ( No. 22,073 )
Across
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Ladies' man : STUD
5
Mentally out of it : DAZED
10
H.S. class member : SOPH
14
The Ponte Santa Trinita spans it : ARNO
15
Prefix with car : ECONO
16
"Lullaby," for one : ARIA
17
Areas in northern forests? : TAIGAWOODS
19
Grinding location : MILL
20
Digging further, say : NOSIER
21
Amos of "Amos 'n' Andy" : JONES
22
ISP with a butterfly logo : MSN
23
Chatty bird alliance? : MYNAHLEAGUE
27
Big bushes : AFROS
29
Doctor's recommendation, often : REST
30
"Mission: Impossible" figure : SPY
31
Capital on the Dnieper : KIEV
32
Stuff : SATIATE
35
Time when laboratories came into vogue? : EXPERIMENTALERA
40
"Celeste Aida" singer : RADAMES
41
Commander, in Arabic : EMIR
42
Some G.P.S. lines : STS
45
Late stand-up comic Richard : JENI
46
Foreign pen pal, perhaps : AMIGA
47
Witch's hamper? : WICCABASKET
51
Lightning org. : NHL
52
Co-producer of the film "Precious" : OPRAH
53
Wading bird with an upcurved bill : AVOCET
55
R&B singer Shuggie ___ : OTIS
56
Heavenly food for the Duke? : WAYNEMANNA
60
Beverage with a lizard logo : SOBE
61
Even up : ALIGN
62
Jackie O, e.g. : ICON
63
Follow : HEED
64
Rushed : RANAT
65
Lizardlike creature : NEWT
Down
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Collected dust : SAT
2
Fascinate : TRANSFIX
3
One who labors for labor's sake? : UNIONREP
4
Feet, slangily : DOGS
5
Three-term governor of New York : DEWEY
6
Nut with a cupule : ACORN
7
Place for exhibits : ZOO
8
Defensive ___ : END
9
27-Across, e.g. : DOS
10
Margaret Mead's "Coming of Age in ___" : SAMOA
11
Some gaskets : ORINGS
12
Accumulate : PILEUP
13
Title admiral in a Paul and Linda McCartney hit : HALSEY
18
Targets : AIMS
21
Beetle's cousin? : JETTA
22
Fashion : MAKE
24
Temple of ___, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World : ARTEMIS
25
Poet whose works were set to music by Schumann, Strauss and Brahms : HEINE
26
Some college srs. take them : LSATS
28
[Turn the page] : OVER
32
Song that people flip for? : SIDEB
33
Big name on the range? : AMANA
34
___ sch. : ELEM
36
Howdah occupant, maybe : RAJAH
37
Prestige : EMINENCE
38
"No, I meant tomorrow ... duh!" : RIGHTNOW
39
Kazakh/Uzbek ___ Sea : ARAL
42
Sneaker symbol : SWOOSH
43
Sneak, in a way : TIPTOE
44
Writer : SCRIBE
46
Unit proposed by Leucippus : ATOM
48
Scoped out : CASED
49
"Winnie-the-Pooh" character : KANGA
50
Calendar entry : EVENT
54
Crop farmer of Genesis : CAIN
56
Classic one-word headline : WAR
57
Like : ALA
58
The dark side : YIN
59
Soldier ___ : ANT

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

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