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New York Times, Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Author:
Ashish Vengsarkar
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
63-Across : French Academy's 40 members
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Ashish Vengsarkar

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 77, Blocks: 42 Missing: {KQZ} This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Vengsarkar. Wednesday freshness: 82%
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© 2009, The New York Times5/20/9 ( No. 21,743 )
Across
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Actor Assante : ARMAND
7
Imprison : EMBAR
12
Mil. rank : PFC
15
Oregonian : BEAVER
16
Frost lines : VERSE
17
Netscape acquirer : AOL
18
Entrance requirement, maybe : APTITUDETEST
20
Meter-candle : LUX
21
Barack Obama, 2005-08, e.g. : FRESHMANSENATOR
23
Part of Santa's bagful : TOY
24
___ Enterprise : USS
25
1950s White House resident : MAMIE
27
Rookie's superstition : SOPHOMOREJINX
32
Skier's wish : SNOW
34
Archaeological find : URN
35
"Just kidding!" : NOT
36
Texas city ... and a hint to the starts of 21-, 27-, 45- and 56-Across : COLLEGESTATION
42
___-wop : DOO
43
Bum ___ : RAP
44
To be, to Brutus : ESSE
45
Subsidiary member of a firm : JUNIORPARTNER
51
Blockage remover : STENT
52
Actress ___ Ling of "The Crow" : BAI
53
Fool : SAP
56
Some restaurant and pharmacy lures : SENIORDISCOUNTS
62
Feel awful : AIL
63
French Academy's 40 members : THEIMMORTALS
64
Classic British two-seaters : MGS
65
Vapid : INANE
66
Ogle : LEERAT
67
Like Dvorák's "Serenade for Strings" : INE
68
Philosopher Kierkegaard : SOREN
69
Gauge : ASSESS
Down
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Toward the stern : ABAFT
2
Not an original : REPRO
3
"Ahoy, ___!" : MATEY
4
Company with the stock symbol CAR : AVIS
5
Belg. neighbor : NETH
6
Solicit, as business : DRUMUP
7
Still : EVENSO
8
Subway Series participant : METS
9
"Desperate Housewives" role : BREE
10
Part of P.T.A.: Abbr. : ASSN
11
Bring back to domestication : RETAME
12
Gold-colored horses : PALOMINOS
13
Multipurpose, somehow : FOURINONE
14
160, to Caesar : CLX
19
Place for a gauge, informally : DASH
22
Persian for "crown" : TAJ
26
Bus. card info : EXT
27
Tijuana tanner : SOL
28
Pooh pal : OWL
29
High school dept. : MUS
30
Little bit : ORT
31
Messenger ___ : RNA
32
Half-salute : SCOUTSIGN
33
Only you : NOONEELSE
37
Make a clanger : ERR
38
Clothing retailer since 1969 : GAP
39
Air monitor, for short : EPA
40
Shirt to wear with shorts : TEE
41
Mideast land: Abbr. : ISR
42
CD players : DJS
46
Days ___ : INN
47
Ear inflammation : OTITIS
48
Ones who drive people home? : RBIMEN
49
Australian island: Abbr. : TASM
50
San ___, Christmas figure in Italy : NICOLA
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Entrap : SNARE
54
World record? : ATLAS
55
Attention getters : PSSTS
57
[Gasp!] : OHNO
58
Tail end : REAR
59
Sup : DINE
60
Tram loads : ORES
61
Shoshone speakers : UTES
62
Ennemi's opposite : AMI

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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