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New York Times, Saturday, April 22, 2006

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
69-Across : Big top worker
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 29 Missing: {KQZ} This is puzzle # 104 for Mr. Quigley. Saturday freshness: 44%
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© 2006, The New York Times4/22/6 ( No. 20,619 )
Across
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Brilliant thinkers they're not : SPACECADETS
12
Some fallout : ASH
15
Hookup spot : NOTELLMOTEL
16
Part of R.R.: Abbr. : RTE
17
Some tape-recorded interviews : ORALHISTORY
18
Family V.I.P.'s : MAS
19
Deliver crosses, e.g. : BOX
20
It's next to nothing : IOTA
21
They line some streets : METERS
23
Barron's reader, slangily : SUIT
25
Creator of Genesis : SEGA
27
Concerto component : RONDO
28
Mideastern royal family name : SAUD
30
NASA craft : LEMS
32
Mil. list : MIAS
33
Period in India's history : RAJ
35
Hydrotherapy option : SALTBATH
37
Vostok 1 passenger : GAGARIN
41
Place for seeds : TOURNEY
42
"Me? Harrumph!" : ILLNEVER
44
Org. in which decisions are awarded : WBA
45
You might tear it up : ROAD
46
Some dairy stock : EWES
48
Abbr. in the real estate section : BDRM
51
Choisy-___ (Paris suburb) : LEROI
53
Employer of TV's Nash Bridges, briefly : SFPD
55
1997 Bond girl Michelle : YEOH
57
"ER" actress Freeman : YVETTE
59
100 sen : RIEL
61
Miracle-___ : GRO
62
Kind of student, for short : MED
63
Versatile restaurant style : ASIANFUSION
66
Neighbor of Telescopium : ARA
67
Song with the lyric "When you kiss me heaven sighs" : LAVIEENROSE
68
Turner of a page in history : NAT
69
Big top worker : LIONTRAINER
Down
1
Unfriendly sorts : SNOBS
2
Like Swiss cheese : POROUS
3
Muscular disorder : ATAXIA
4
Picture within a picture? : CEL
5
Like some textbook publishers : ELHI
6
Spot announcements? : CLIOS
7
Big Dutch export : AMSTEL
8
Late stages, of sorts : DOTAGES
9
W.W. II inits. : ETO
10
Course : TERM
11
More sharp : SLYER
12
Georgian's neighbor : ARMENIAN
13
It's not measured in traditional years : STARDATE
14
1980 Pointer Sisters hit : HESSOSHY
22
Youngest QB to win a Super Bowl, at age 24 : TOMBRADY
24
Ping and Pong are characters in it : TURANDOT
26
Third of a Latin sextet : AMAT
29
Show spunk : DARE
31
Not busy : SLOW
34
Talk of swingers : JIVE
36
Singer called the Texas Troubadour : TUBB
37
No Mr. Macho : GIRLYMAN
38
Cream additive : ALOEVERA
39
Mad-dogged : GLAREDAT
40
What's going on : NEWS
43
It may follow a bridge : REFRAIN
47
Grand alternative : SPINET
49
Several departments, maybe : REGION
50
Far from bright : MOROSE
52
Dash follower? : ITALL
54
Put on the back burner : DEFER
56
One working on the cutting edge? : HONER
58
Tony's portrayer on "N.Y.P.D. Blue" : ESAI
60
___ moth : LUNA
64
Literature Nobelist Andric : IVO
65
What many an Indian is called : SRI

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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