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New York Times, Monday, April 22, 2013

Author:
Allan E. Parrish
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
45-Across : Deal (with)
TotalDebutLatest
397/1/20025/19/2015
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CircleScrabDebutFresh
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Allan E. Parrish

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 35 for Mr. Parrish. Monday freshness: 85%
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M
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C
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C
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C
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© 2013, The New York Times4/22/13 ( No. 23,176 )
Across
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1200, on a monument : MCC
4
___ the Red : ERIC
8
Born first : ELDEST
14
Designation for some batteries and minor-leaguers : AAA
15
The "M" in S.M.U.: Abbr. : METH
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Subject to damages : LIABLE
17
Basic education trio : RRR
18
Louisville Slugger, e.g. : BASEBALLBAT
20
Apartment dweller's agreement : LEASE
22
Small bed : COT
23
Write on stone, say : ETCH
24
Wager that's not made at the site of the race : OFFTRACKBET
28
Eisenhower, informally : IKE
29
"Alas!" : WOEISME
30
"Take me ___ am" : ASI
31
Architect Mies van ___ Rohe : DER
32
Once, in former times : ERST
33
"I know what you're thinking" ability, in brief : ESP
35
Wails : KEENS
37
Hole-positioning gadget : CENTERBIT
41
Menotti's "___ and the Night Visitors" : AMAHL
44
Fifth or Madison, in N.Y.C. : AVE
45
Deal (with) : COPE
49
Computer grouping, for short : LAN
50
Color : HUE
53
Enters slowly : EASESIN
55
Lyricist Gershwin : IRA
56
Automated Web program : INTERNETBOT
58
Vitriol : BILE
60
Dress (up) : TOG
61
Teatime biscuit : SCONE
62
By no means : ANYTHINGBUT
66
One of Gen. Lee's force : REB
67
Outdid : BESTED
68
Seep : OOZE
69
Omaha's home: Abbr. : NEB
70
Vein's counterpart : ARTERY
71
___ and polish : SPIT
72
Before, to poets : ERE
Down
1
Philip ___, "The Big Sleep" sleuth : MARLOWE
2
Be fond of : CAREFOR
3
Wine containers : CARAFES
4
Campfire remnants : EMBERS
5
Actor Stephen : REA
6
"___ about time!" : ITS
7
Chess declaration : CHECK
8
Thrills : ELATES
9
Rapper ___ Jon : LIL
10
Racer Earnhardt : DALE
11
Time when the water's low : EBBTIDE
12
Lose tautness : SLACKEN
13
Restraining ropes : TETHERS
19
___ Fett ("Star Wars" villain) : BOBA
21
Do needlework : STITCH
25
"You said it, brother!" : AMEN
26
"___ la vie" : CEST
27
Kind of torch at a luau : TIKI
34
Split ___ soup : PEA
36
Yadda yadda yadda : ETCETC
38
K-12, in education lingo : ELHI
39
Winnebago owner, briefly : RVER
40
Noggin : BEAN
41
"Open sesame" sayer : ALIBABA
42
Seafarer : MARINER
43
Stock market expert : ANALYST
46
"One of Us" singer Joan : OSBORNE
47
Daniel Boone, notably : PIONEER
48
Ugandan site of a 1976 Israeli rescue : ENTEBBE
51
In need of straightening up : UNTIDY
52
English institution since 1440 : ETON
54
Six-line poem : SESTET
57
Certain frozen waffles : EGGOS
59
Suffix with kitchen : ETTE
63
Old what's-___-name : HER
64
Jazz style : BOP
65
Israeli weapon : UZI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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