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New York Times, Monday, April 3, 2006

Author:
Lynn Lempel
Editor:
Will Shortz
27-Across : Bassoon or 47-Down, e.g.
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
10212/9/19793/19/20242
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
673172130
CircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
91.61331220%
Lynn Lempel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 17 for Ms. Lempel. Monday freshness: 47%
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© 2006, The New York Times4/3/6 ( No. 20,600 )
Across
1
Wide rift : CHASM
6
Stone revered in China : JADE
10
High point : ACME
14
Hawk's haven : AERIE
15
W.W. I poet Wilfred : OWEN
16
Small nail : BRAD
17
Chopin's novelist lover : GEORGESAND
19
Liver secretion : BILE
20
Some urban railways : ELS
21
Sore : ACHY
22
Focus (on) : ZOOMIN
24
Be really mad : SEETHE
26
"The Prince of Tides" star Nick : NOLTE
27
Bassoon or 47-Down, e.g. : WOODWIND
29
"Awesome!" : WOW
32
"American Idol" champ Studdard : RUBEN
35
One-spot cards : ACES
36
Lawyer's org. : ABA
37
Selves : EGOS
38
Letters you push a button to send : FAXES
40
Diabolical : EVIL
41
Fungus-ravaged tree type : ELM
42
Make a road : PAVE
43
Streamlined : SLEEK
44
Tiny untruth : FIB
45
1960's Haight-Ashbury sound : ACIDROCK
48
Used a Singer machine : SEWED
50
Mistreated : ABUSED
53
Nearby : ATHAND
55
Proton's place : ATOM
56
Bigwig, for short : VIP
58
Wolf's glance : LEER
59
1957 novel, and a hint to the ends of 17-, 27- and 45-Across and 11- and 34-Down : ONTHEBEACH
62
Blab : TELL
63
Gala gathering : FETE
64
Extra : ADDED
65
Sole : ONLY
66
Afternoon hour for tea : FOUR
67
Surmise : GUESS
Down
1
Parrot holder : CAGE
2
Scoundrels : HEELS
3
Cropped up : AROSE
4
Madam's partner : SIR
5
Huge explosive force : MEGATON
6
Kidded : JOSHED
7
Gone : AWAY
8
Scout group : DEN
9
Where goal posts are : ENDZONES
10
Monastery head : ABBOT
11
Surge in lawlessness : CRIMEWAVE
12
Timbuktu's country : MALI
13
Utopian spot : EDEN
18
Rebounding sound : ECHO
23
Early automaker : OLDS
25
Ones lambs follow : EWES
26
"Good job!" : NICE
28
Like some floors and mustaches : WAXED
30
Theater award : OBIE
31
Conserve gasoline, maybe : WALK
32
Offshore ridge : REEF
33
Wrinkly-skinned fruit : UGLI
34
Total shocker : BOMBSHELL
38
Met as rivals : FACEDOFF
39
Fervent : AVID
40
Fraternal group : ELKS
42
Piece in front of a king or queen : PAWN
43
Scoundrel : SCUMBAG
46
Cronkite successor : RATHER
47
See 27-Across : OBOE
49
At the crack of dawn : EARLY
51
Sidestep : EVADE
52
Cuts into cubes : DICES
53
Voice above a tenor : ALTO
54
Many a Jessica Simpson fan : TEEN
55
End island of the Aleutians : ATTU
57
Profs have them : PHDS
60
Prefix with colonial : NEO
61
E-mail address ending for many profs : EDU

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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