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New York Times, Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Author:
Lynn Lempel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
17-Across : Winner of a pea-preparing contest?
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Lynn Lempel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 60 for Ms. Lempel. Tuesday freshness: 32%
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A
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T
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B
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Y
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L
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O
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© 2012, The New York Times5/8/12 ( No. 22,827 )
Across
1
Cornered : ATBAY
6
"Quiet!" : SHUSH
11
Program abbr. : TBA
14
Prop up : BRACE
15
Canned pumpkin, e.g. : PUREE
16
Spot for a band : ARM
17
Winner of a pea-preparing contest? : BESTSHELLER
19
Maker of the Soul and Optima : KIA
20
Figure skating jump : AXEL
21
Shoemaker's tool : AWL
22
Portents : OMENS
24
Hypotheticals : IFS
26
Names on fake IDs, perhaps : ALIASES
28
Lotharios' lines in a singles bar? : PICKUPSHTICKS
33
Waxed enthusiastic, say : OOHED
34
"Neato!" : COOL
35
"___, Brute?" : ETTU
38
Cause of some weaving, for short : DWI
39
Early TV star with a biography titled "Schnozzola" : DURANTE
42
Western alliance, for short : OAS
43
Build up a nest egg : SAVE
45
Desertlike : SERE
46
Store featured in "Miracle on 34th Street" : MACYS
48
One preparing corn for long hours? : ALLDAYSHUCKER
51
Prince who married Kate Middleton : WILLIAM
53
F1 neighbor on a PC : ESC
54
Bird with prized plumes : EGRET
55
Measure of electrical resistance : OHM
57
Campus near Beverly Hills, briefly : UCLA
61
U.N. agency for workers : ILO
62
Phony wedding? : MARRYINSHAM
66
Gehrig on the diamond : LOU
67
Take the lid off : UNCAP
68
Commandeer : SEIZE
69
The "L" in 57-Across : LOS
70
Past its sell-by date : STALE
71
Tree with a namesake ski destination : ASPEN
Down
1
Group whose music is heard in "Mamma Mia!" : ABBA
2
Fearsome dino : TREX
3
First, second, third or home : BASE
4
Mimic : ACTLIKE
5
"You're right!" : YES
6
Gush : SPEW
7
Ship's framework : HULL
8
Virtual address : URL
9
Meet with : SEE
10
Valiant : HEROIC
11
Assesses one's options carefully : TAKESSTOCK
12
Pickling solution : BRINE
13
Accumulate : AMASS
18
Barn door fastener : HASP
23
Fabricate : MAKE
25
Elmer with a big gun : FUDD
26
Makes up (for) : ATONES
27
Light, rhythmic cadence : LILT
28
Seed containers : PODS
29
Early stop in a presidential race : IOWA
30
Gallant : CHIVALROUS
31
Edvard Munch depiction : SCREAM
32
White with age : HOARY
36
"Rent" actor Diggs : TAYE
37
Old NATO target : USSR
40
Fed. agency entrusted with food safety : USDA
41
Outback sprinters : EMUS
44
Magazine whose name sounds like a letter of the alphabet : ELLE
47
Charges in court : ACCUSES
49
It turns red in acid : LITMUS
50
Spheric opener? : HEMI
51
Kurt who wrote the music for "The Threepenny Opera" : WEILL
52
Domed home : IGLOO
55
Like the Sabin polio vaccine : ORAL
56
Extravagant publicity : HYPE
58
Part of a poker player's pile : CHIP
59
Take it easy : LAZE
60
Last part of Handel's "Messiah" : AMEN
63
One often on the march : ANT
64
"His Master's Voice" company : RCA
65
Cryptologists' org. : NSA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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