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New York Times, Thursday, April 30, 2015

Author:
Herre Schouwerwou
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
18-Across : Longs
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Herre Schouwerwou

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JQVXZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Schouwerwou. Thursday freshness: 85%
Herre Schouwerwou notes:
Just a week after my debut crossword I got an email from Joel accepting this one without any changes. Will and Joel liked the theme ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Neat idea, double homonyms where one word is the name of a famous person. I was confused when I came up on CHER WEAR — I'm so ... read more
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© 2015, The New York Times4/30/15 ( No. 23,914 )
Across
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Emergency status : CODERED
8
Case for a lawyer, maybe : ATTACHE
15
Paper work not usually done at the office : ORIGAMI
16
Performers with lots of fans? : GEISHAS
17
Quintet in a nursery rhyme : PIGGIES
18
Longs : HANKERS
19
Naked "Parks and Recreation" star? : POEHLERBARE
21
Fig. for a dietitian : RDA
22
What may follow anything? : ELSE
23
Some expensive hors d'oeuvres : ROES
24
Spread on a farm : SOW
26
Surface again, as a road : RETAR
28
Layered lunch orders : BLTS
30
Mourn openly : WEEP
33
Wooden rod : DOWEL
35
Recently : OFLATE
37
"Say ___" : AAH
40
Tempo : CADENCE
42
Unpolished : RAW
43
Bizarre : FREAKY
45
Balderdash : HOKUM
47
Describe as : TERM
48
Out and about : SEEN
50
Two numbers? : DUETS
54
Onetime owner of NBC : RCA
56
Hitch : LIMP
58
Like some fees and feet : FLAT
59
Bit of discouragement : TSK
61
Event at Walden Pond? : THOREAUFAIR
64
Like some shopping : ONESTOP
66
Of the highest reputation : TOPLINE
67
"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a ___ president": Lyndon Johnson : WARTIME
68
Firm, in a way : ALDENTE
69
Neatens (up) : SPRUCES
70
Most baggy : LOOSEST
Down
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Conductor of note : COPPER
2
Maker of a hanging nest : ORIOLE
3
Compilation : DIGEST
4
Brainiac : EGGHEAD
5
Transit option : RAIL
6
Mideast title: Var. : EMEER
7
Stripped : DISROBED
8
Horrified : AGHAST
9
Well up : TEAR
10
Ends of some utensils : TINES
11
"Don't ___" : ASK
12
Clothing line from an Oscar-winning singer? : CHERWEAR
13
Brain-busting : HARD
14
Italian pronoun : ESSA
20
Offspring of Beauty? : BELLEHEIR
25
Snowy ___ : OWL
27
Wear, and look great doing it : ROCK
29
Wallop : SOCK
31
Landing info, briefly : ETA
32
___ Research Center (polling group) : PEW
34
Routes : WAYS
36
Long row : FEUD
37
Like a mizzenmast on a ship : AFT
38
Equals, in math : ARE
39
The Galloping Gourmet in Germany? : HERRKERR
41
Any of about 18 elements on the periodic table : NONMETAL
44
"The Walking Dead" channel : AMC
46
Quiets : MUFFLES
49
Skips the rite stuff? : ELOPES
51
Paige of Broadway and London's West End : ELAINE
52
Pollutes : TAINTS
53
Word with price or parking : STREET
55
Top level of many a 62-Down : ATTIC
57
Veronese who painted "The Wedding at Cana" : PAOLO
59
Followers of many breakdowns : TOWS
60
Rude way to call a waiter : SNAP
62
See 55-Down : HOME
63
Pageant coif, maybe : UPDO
65
Man's name that's an alphabet run : STU

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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