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New York Times, Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Author:
Dave Mackey
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Across : Bank worry
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Dave Mackey

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQVZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Mackey. Wednesday freshness: 50%
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© 2008, The New York Times5/21/8 ( No. 21,379 )
Across
1
Birdbrain : NITWIT
7
Of the flock : LAIC
11
Inferior, as excuses go : SAD
14
Add value to : ENRICH
15
Norse epic : EDDA
16
Step on it : HIE
17
Solitaire card game : ROUGEETNOIR
19
Sapphic work : ODE
20
Wee hour : ONE
21
Pre-K enrollee : TOT
22
Spoke hesitatingly : HAWED
24
Pugs in gyms, at times : SHADOWBOXERS
28
Forcefully, in music : FURIOSO
31
Busy cowpoke : ROPER
32
1972 Bill Withers hit : USEME
33
Brooder : HEN
34
4, on a phone : GHI
37
Good thing to build on : SOLIDFOUNDATION
42
Poli ___ : SCI
43
Response to a backrub : AAH
44
Gentle opening? : SOFTG
45
Québec's southern neighbors : ETATS
48
52-Down part : BRISTLE
50
Initially : ATFIRSTBLUSH
53
1983 Keaton comedy : MRMOM
54
Bank worry : RUN
55
Blood-typing system : ABO
58
Word repeated in the "Whiffenpoof Song" refrain : BAA
59
Cunard fleet member : LUXURYLINER
64
Collagen target : LIP
65
Greasy spoon sign : EATS
66
Poster stock : OAKTAG
67
Saucer contents, in brief? : ETS
68
Kind of support : TECH
69
Big blasts, for short : NTESTS
Down
1
"Quo Vadis" role : NERO
2
Knowing, as something private : INON
3
Set straight : TRUE
4
Go nuts, with "out" : WIG
5
It's never in a neat order : ICE
6
Certain sorority members : THETAS
7
Slowly, on a score : LENTO
8
Stir : ADO
9
"Rise and Fall of ___ Amin" (1981 film) : IDI
10
"American Graffiti" extra : CARHOP
11
Item from a registry, perhaps : SHOWERGIFT
12
Good Samaritan : AIDER
13
Knight's list : DEEDS
18
List-starting words : TODO
23
Send packing : AXE
24
___ Valley, Calif. : SIMI
25
Worked a garden : HOED
26
House ___ : WREN
27
Source of interest : BOND
28
Something to kick up : FUSS
29
Summer Games org. : USOC
30
They show altitude : RELIEFMAPS
33
"Come again?" : HUH
35
Off-Broadway's "___ Baltimore" : HOTL
36
"A Loss of Roses" playwright : INGE
38
Dietary needs : FATS
39
Drying kiln : OAST
40
Tag sale proviso : ASIS
41
Peter of reggae : TOSH
46
Padre's hermano : TIO
47
Decorative band : ARMLET
48
Astigmatic's view : BLUR
49
"Guys and Dolls" is based on his writing : RUNYON
50
Mosey along : AMBLE
51
Red hair or freckles : TRAIT
52
Toiletry kit item : BRUSH
55
Social workers? : ANTS
56
Ready for the sack : BEAT
57
A.A. and A.A.A., for two : ORGS
60
Mideast federation: Abbr. : UAE
61
Band with the 1987 single "Dear God" : XTC
62
Part of a G.P.S. reading: Abbr. : LAT
63
Liked leader? : IKE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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