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New York Times, Friday, April 16, 2010

Author:
Eric Berlin
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
40-Across : "That's ___ one!"
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
436/23/200211/29/20203
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361.5223969%
Eric Berlin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 35 for Mr. Berlin. Friday freshness: 62%
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© 2010, The New York Times4/16/10 ( No. 22,074 )
Across
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Exude : REEKOF
7
Family tree abbr. : DESC
11
Backing : PRO
14
Marching ___ (Midwest college band) : ILLINI
15
Mix : OLIO
16
Post-Manhattan Project agcy. : AEC
17
It has a lot of small dishes : TASTINGMENU
19
Guilty, in a legal phrase : REA
20
Like many appliances: Abbr. : ELEC
21
Forest cover? : ANIMALPELT
23
Narnian guardian : ASLAN
25
Security need: Abbr. : IDENT
26
Its purpose is frightening : SCARECROW
30
Noted 21-Across dealer : ASTOR
32
OPEC member: Abbr. : UAE
33
They're checked for life : PULSES
35
Connecting, briefly : THRU
36
Climactic musical finales : STRETTI
38
Like some pulled calves? : LASSOED
40
"That's ___ one!" : AHOT
41
Unload on, in a way : SELLTO
43
Work containing about 2.5 million quotations: Abbr. : OED
44
Unsettled sort : NOMAD
46
"Rumor has it ..." : REPUTEDLY
48
Discourage : DETER
50
Tibiae neighbors : TARSI
51
Enters : SETSFOOTIN
53
Member of the Hindu trinity : SIVA
57
It may lie in a bed : ORE
58
Women who may make people break up? : COMEDIENNES
60
Place for many belts : BAR
61
___ about : ONOR
62
Some godchildren : NIECES
63
Way: Abbr. : SYS
64
Rialto attention-getter : NEON
65
Absorbed : ENRAPT
Down
1
Graduation, e.g. : RITE
2
Offerer of the Matmid frequent flier club : ELAL
3
More : ELSE
4
Build-it-yourself wheels : KITCAR
5
Clandestine maritime org. : ONI
6
Demands of some directors : FINALCUTS
7
Company with the stock symbol DPZ : DOMINOS
8
I, for one : ELEM
9
Six-Day War setting : SINAI
10
"___ Been the One" (2006 Rihanna song) : COULDA
11
Pop's condition : PARENTHOOD
12
Like some projectors : REELTOREEL
13
One ___ (kid's game) : OCAT
18
More difficult, in slang : GNARLIER
22
They might be smoked out : PESTS
24
Reaping time: Abbr. : SEPT
26
Longtime human "Sesame Street" role : SUSAN
27
Crookes tube emission : CATHODERAY
28
Measurers of gas properties : AEROMETERS
29
Making seven figures, say : WELLPAID
31
Kind of complexion : RUDDY
34
Gloomy : SATURNINE
37
Nations Unies members : ETATS
39
They're often loaded : SOTS
42
End of discussion? : LETTERN
45
Military alert status : DEFCON
47
Michael with the memoir "Work in Progress" : EISNER
49
TV executive Arledge : ROONE
51
Doesn't just tear up : SOBS
52
Novel with the chapter "Farming in Polynesia" : OMOO
54
Old victim of the Spanish : INCA
55
Resident of D.C.'s Observatory Circle : VEEP
56
Right hand: Abbr. : ASST
59
"___ weites Feld" (Günter Grass novel) : EIN

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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