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New York Times, Monday, May 2, 2011

Author:
Caleb Madison
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
27-Across : Handle, as a tool
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Caleb Madison

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QVZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 20 for Mr. Madison. Monday freshness: 85%
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© 2011, The New York Times5/2/11 ( No. 22,455 )
Across
1
Actress Fox of "Transformers" : MEGAN
6
Baby bird's sound : PEEP
10
F.D.R.'s successor : HST
13
Gave a speech : ORATED
15
Folkie Guthrie : ARLO
16
Suffix with serpent : INE
17
Country-pop star with the 2008 six-time platinum album "Fearless" : TAYLORSWIFT
19
In favor of : FOR
20
Suffix with Brooklyn or Manhattan : ITE
21
Some small batteries : AAAS
22
Large shrimp : PRAWN
24
Vehicle moving items in a warehouse : FORKLIFT
27
Handle, as a tool : WIELD
28
Super-duper : AONE
29
"Love Song" band, 1989 : THECURE
31
Decorate : ADORN
34
Baseball's DiMaggio : JOE
35
Box office purchases, informally : TIX
36
"From Here to Eternity" Best Actor nominee : MONTGOMERYCLIFT
41
Pained cries : OWS
42
Kitten's cry : MEW
43
Uncles' partners : AUNTS
44
Flustered : INASTIR
47
Plant with fronds : FERN
49
Icy precipitation : SLEET
50
What a Don Juan thinks he is to women : GODSGIFT
54
Charlie of "Two and a Half Men" : SHEEN
55
Shop with egg salad and cold cuts : DELI
56
502, in old Rome : DII
57
Writer Anaïs : NIN
58
Opposite of a tightwad : SPENDTHRIFT
62
Mysterious saucer : UFO
63
Fashion magazine originally from France : ELLE
64
Silky : SMOOTH
65
"Oh, also ...," in text messages : BTW
66
Dashes' partners in Morse code : DOTS
67
Words before double or take : ONTHE
Down
1
Theme : MOTIF
2
Poetic Muse : ERATO
3
Merrier : GAYER
4
The Braves, on scoreboards : ATL
5
Prefix with classical : NEO
6
Handle roughly : PAWAT
7
Greek goddess of strife : ERIS
8
Worker in Santa's workshop : ELF
9
Entree from Swanson or Banquet : POTPIE
10
Pretentious : HIFALUTIN
11
Road blocker after a winter storm : SNOWDRIFT
12
Seabird : TERN
14
Sink's outlet : DRAIN
18
Bank fixture : SAFE
23
___ room (place for Ping-Pong) : REC
25
Go-___ : KART
26
Extended : LONG
27
Curds and ___ : WHEY
29
Rocky hill : TOR
30
Parts of office tel. nos. : EXTS
31
Mine, in Marseille : AMOI
32
Move to a lower gear : DOWNSHIFT
33
Store sign during bargain week : ONSALENOW
34
Passover observer : JEW
37
Leave out : OMIT
38
Sea, to Cousteau : MER
39
Autos : CARS
40
Where inhaled air goes : LUNG
45
"Get it?" : SEE
46
Tightened : TENSED
47
Crease : FOLD
48
Touches up, as a manuscript : EDITS
50
Things passed on from Mom and Dad : GENES
51
Dum-dum : IDIOT
52
20% : FIFTH
53
10% : TITHE
54
Social slight : SNUB
55
Shoulder muscle, for short : DELT
59
Mideast grp. : PLO
60
Plan for hosp. patients : HMO
61
Politico ___ Paul : RON

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

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