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New York Times, Friday, May 3, 2013

Author:
David Kwong
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
20-Across : D.M.V. offerings
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
234/1/20064/18/20245
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531.5910446%
David Kwong

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Kwong. Friday freshness: 52%
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© 2013, The New York Times5/3/13 ( No. 23,187 )
Across
1
Singer's tongue : YIDDISH
8
Fast delivery : AIRMAIL
15
First name in online news : ARIANNA
16
Detox, say : CLEANSE
17
Autobiographical book by Carrie Fisher : WISHFULDRINKING
19
As one : ENBLOC
20
D.M.V. offerings : EYETESTS
21
Peace Nobelist Kim ___-jung : DAE
22
Crispy Twister offerer : KFC
24
Peace Nobelist Hammarskjöld : DAG
25
Papua New Guinea port in W.W. II news : LAE
28
"That's nice" : AAH
30
Dept. of Labor division : OSHA
34
Unit of online popularity : TWITTERFOLLOWER
39
"Almost there!" : ONETOGO
40
Nice thing to hit : PAYDIRT
41
First card played in the game parliament : SEVENOFDIAMONDS
43
British submachine gun : STEN
44
Bog : FEN
45
Grade sch. class : ENG
46
Badge holder: Abbr. : DET
49
Back : AGO
51
Ermine, e.g. : FUR
54
Kind of cable in TV production : TRIAXIAL
58
Actress Ryder : WINONA
61
Oscar-nominated Woody Allen film : MIDNIGHTINPARIS
63
Mythological sister of 66-Across : ELECTRA
64
Regardless of : DESPITE
65
Formidable foes : NEMESES
66
Mythological brother of 63-Across : ORESTES
Down
1
Went off course, as a ship : YAWED
2
One of Chekhov's "Three Sisters" : IRINA
3
Not accept : DISBELIEVE
4
Children's author who created Miss Trunchbull : DAHL
5
Scoop contents : INFO
6
Approached slyly, with "up" : SNUCK
7
1968 space movie villain : HAL
8
D. W. Griffith's "___ for Help" : ACRY
9
"Yeah, you got me" : ILIED
10
___-car : RENTA
11
Fulfill : MAKEGOODON
12
Spanish liqueur : ANIS
13
"___ it?" : ISNT
14
Staying power : LEGS
18
Cappuccino choice : DECAF
23
Not soon at all : FAROFF
26
Who's there : ATTENDANCE
27
___ blue (color named for a school) : ETON
29
___ for the best : HOPING
31
Be hanged after a crime : SWINGFORIT
32
Throng : HERD
33
Fine things? : ARTS
34
Chuck : TOSS
35
N.Y.C.'s PBS station : WNET
36
Big head : EGO
37
A.L. West team, on scoreboards : LAA
38
___ disease : LYME
42
Passed out : DEALT
47
Stage directions : EXITS
48
Feline in un jardin zoologique : TIGRE
50
Major League Baseball V.I.P. : OWNER
52
Merge : UNITE
53
Demolishes, in Devon : RASES
54
Govt. gangbusters : TMEN
55
Put out : RILE
56
Ditto, in footnotes : IDEM
57
Pupil reactions : AHAS
59
___ dixit : IPSE
60
Short breaks, of a sort : NAPS
62
It may be said with a raised hand : IDO

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

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