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New York Times, Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Author:
Mike Nothnagel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
21-Across : Ornery sort
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431.6633377%
Mike Nothnagel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQ} This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. Nothnagel. Tuesday freshness: 83%
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© 2009, The New York Times5/26/9 ( No. 21,749 )
Across
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With 67-Across, an appropriate title for this puzzle? : SWAP
5
Second of two sections : PARTB
10
Beaver's project : DAM
13
Competed in a regatta : ROWED
15
Formal answer to "Who's at the door?" : ITISI
16
Vein contents : ORE
17
Where to learn a vocation : TRADESCHOOL
19
Earl Grey, for one : TEA
20
Set as a price : ASK
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Ornery sort : CUSS
22
Fictional salesman Willy : LOMAN
24
"Remington ___" of 1980s TV : STEELE
26
"Who's the Boss?" co-star : DANZA
28
Basis for a moneyless economy : BARTERSYSTEM
33
When repeated, exuberant student's cry : IKNOW
36
Put pen to paper : WROTE
37
Vitamin bottle info, for short : RDA
38
Go across : SPAN
39
Artemis' Roman counterpart : DIANA
40
"Veni, ___, vici" : VIDI
41
Intraoffice PC hookup : LAN
42
Stately home : MANSE
43
When some morning news programs begin : SIXAM
44
Two dollars per pound, say : EXCHANGERATE
47
Radiohead singer Thom : YORKE
48
Yanni's music genre : NEWAGE
52
Got a C, say : DIDOK
54
Drink with sushi : SAKE
56
Drink with Christmas cookies : NOG
57
Palme ___ (Cannes prize) : DOR
58
"On/off" surrounder : SWITCHPLATE
62
Completely impress : AWE
63
Torpedo launcher : UBOAT
64
Emma of "Dynasty" : SAMMS
65
Go off course : YAW
66
Guilty feelings, e.g. : PANGS
67
See 1-Across : MEET
Down
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Spanish counterparts of mlles. : SRTAS
2
Beat in a match : WORST
3
Open-eyed : AWAKE
4
___ Xing : PED
5
Snaps : PICS
6
Sports players: Abbr. : ATHS
7
Carnaval city : RIO
8
General on a Chinese menu : TSO
9
TV's Science Guy : BILLNYE
10
Early printer type : DOTMATRIX
11
Realm : AREA
12
Intend : MEAN
14
Remove the nails from, as a cat : DECLAW
18
Plaintiff : SUER
23
Parts of lbs. : OZS
25
Black, in verse : EBON
26
One who goes on and on : DRONER
27
Nick and Nora's pooch : ASTA
29
Sudden, sharp pain : TWINGE
30
Render blank, as a floppy disk : ERASE
31
Old Norse work : EDDA
32
Incapacitate : MAIM
33
Tropical vacation spot : ISLE
34
Title planet in a 2001 Kevin Spacey movie : KPAX
35
Character who first appeared in "The Secret of the Old Clock" : NANCYDREW
39
Like dungeons, typically : DANK
40
Feature of a house in the hills : VIEW
42
Annotates, as a manuscript : MARKSUP
43
Soaks in hot water, as 19-Across : STEEPS
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"Yoo-___!" : HOO
46
Egyptian cross : ANKH
49
"What's in ___?" : ANAME
50
"Dunno" : GOTME
51
Discharge : EGEST
52
"It's now or never" time : DDAY
53
Home of the Hawkeyes of the Big Ten : IOWA
54
How some people go to a party : STAG
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Romans preceder : ACTS
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Org. for heavyweights : WBA
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Chloride, for one : ION
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On the ___ (fleeing) : LAM

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

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