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New York Times, Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Author:
Ronald J. and Nancy J. Byron
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
25-Across : 1908 Cubs player and position
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Ron Byron
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Nancy Byron

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQWZ} Spans: 4 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Byron. This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Byron. Tuesday freshness: 16%
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© 2009, The New York Times4/21/9 ( No. 21,714 )
Across
1
Soft or crunchy snack : TACO
5
Like a 52-Across : SMART
10
Start of an incantation : ABRA
14
The "A" in Chester A. Arthur : ALAN
15
Rudely assertive : PUSHY
16
When repeated, Road Runner's call : BEEP
17
1908 Cubs player and position : TINKERSHORTSTOP
20
How fame comes, sometimes : ATAPRICE
21
Friars Club event : ROAST
22
The Braves, on a scoreboard : ATL
23
"Pants on fire" person : LIAR
25
1908 Cubs player and position : EVERSSECONDBASE
33
Chutzpah : NERVE
34
Put an edge on : HONE
35
Hydrotherapy locale : SPA
36
"How sweet ___!" : ITIS
37
Barbers' touch-ups : TRIMS
39
Polish's partner : SPIT
40
U. of Miami's athletic org. : ACC
41
Baseball analyst Hershiser : OREL
42
Command to an attack dog : SICEM
43
1908 Cubs player and position : CHANCEFIRSTBASE
47
Salt Lake City athletes : UTES
48
Ike's W.W. II command : ETO
49
"Yes we can" sloganeer : OBAMA
52
2006 Ken Jennings book ... or the author himself : BRAINIAC
57
What 17-, 25- and 43-Across were, famously : DOUBLEPLAYCOMBO
60
Virginia ___ (noted 1587 birth) : DARE
61
The Dapper Don : GOTTI
62
Fountain order : MALT
63
Polaris or Sirius : STAR
64
Jimmy of the Daily Planet : OLSEN
65
They're splitsville : EXES
Down
1
"Toodles" : TATA
2
Touched down : ALIT
3
Water-to-wine site : CANA
4
Peeling potatoes, stereotypically : ONKP
5
Mast extensions : SPRITS
6
Bodyguard's asset : MUSCLE
7
Only African-American male to win Wimbledon : ASHE
8
P, on a fraternity house : RHO
9
Norse war god : TYR
10
Work like paper towels : ABSORB
11
Software test version : BETA
12
Vintage autos : REOS
13
Date with an M.D. : APPT
18
Clear, as a tape : ERASE
19
The "t" in Nafta : TRADE
23
Machine with a shuttle : LOOM
24
Rustic lodgings : INNS
25
1946 high-tech wonder : ENIAC
26
Climbing plant with pealike flowers : VETCH
27
Novelist Jong : ERICA
28
Homes on wheels, in brief : RVS
29
Hot dog topper : CHILI
30
Humane org. since 1866 : ASPCA
31
Black-clad and white-clad Mad adversaries : SPIES
32
Wonderland cake phrase : EATME
37
Logic diagram : TREE
38
Flag tossers, for short : REFS
39
Bro or sis : SIB
41
Of base 8 : OCTAL
42
Showing no emotion : STOIC
44
"Sorry, Wrong ___" : NUMBER
45
Add a star to, say : RERATE
46
Not leave the house : STAYIN
49
They may be stacked against you : ODDS
50
Dinghy, e.g. : BOAT
51
Surrounding glow : AURA
52
Nonkosher diner offerings : BLTS
53
Iditarod terminus : NOME
54
Huge-screen format : IMAX
55
Up to it : ABLE
56
Hotel room roll-ins : COTS
58
Part of Freud's "psychic apparatus" : EGO
59
Vote seeker, for short : POL

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

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