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New York Times, Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Author:
Patrick Merrell
Editor:
Will Shortz
36-Across : Chooses
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551.6149348%
Patrick Merrell

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 37 Missing: {QVXZ} This is puzzle # 64 for Mr. Merrell. Wednesday freshness: 28%
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© 2007, The New York Times5/9/7 ( No. 21,001 )
Across
1
Churn : ROIL
5
Tale with a point : FABLE
10
Pre-Communist leader : TSAR
14
It's a killer : ORCA
15
Tubular instruments : OBOES
16
Doing : UPTO
17
Winston Churchill's description of a fanatic, part 1 : ONEWHOCANT
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Gymnastics apparatus, for short : BEAM
20
Layout : FORMAT
21
Opposite of Mar. on a calendar : SEP
23
American Depression, e.g. : ERA
24
Part of A/C : AIR
25
Secured, as a fish on a line : REELEDIN
27
Description, part 2 : CHANGEHISMIND
31
Suffer : AIL
32
Not the brainiest sort : SAP
33
December celebrations : NOELS
36
Chooses : SELECTS
39
Dreadful : ABYSMAL
41
Rock's ___ Van Halen : EDDIE
42
Lug : APE
43
"Lead ___ King Eternal" (hymn) : ONO
44
Description, part 3 : ANDWONTCHANGE
49
How often federal elections are held : BIYEARLY
51
Science fiction author Stanislaw : LEM
52
"Well, ___ be!" : ILL
53
Free (of) : RID
54
Formally speaks : ORATES
58
Résumé addenda : BIOS
60
Description's end : THESUBJECT
63
Rangy : LANK
64
Like a despot, typically : HATED
65
Western Indian : OTOE
66
Pushing the envelope : EDGY
67
Collars worn outside the lapels : ETONS
68
Payment in Monopoly : RENT
Down
1
Part of the mouth : ROOF
2
"Yes ___?" : ORNO
3
Froster : ICER
4
Tin star wearer : LAWMAN
5
Barber chair feature : FOOTREST
6
"Dancing With the Stars" airer : ABC
7
It has some feathers around the neck : BOA
8
Contacts, e.g. : LENSES
9
Revere : ESTEEM
10
Margarine container : TUB
11
Leadfoot : SPEEDDEMON
12
Pong creator : ATARI
13
Not italic : ROMAN
18
Alexander who said "I'm in control here" : HAIG
22
"Elder" of ancient history : PLINY
25
Tear (up) : RIP
26
Orbiting chimp of 1961 : ENOS
27
Legal assignment : CASE
28
Double-timed : HIED
29
From dawn till dusk : ALLDAYLONG
30
Owns : HAS
34
"Metropolis" director Fritz : LANG
35
Gin fruit : SLOE
37
Bild article : EINE
38
Moth deterrent : CEDAR
39
Bldg. unit : APT
40
Obscures : BECLOUDS
42
Indiscriminate amount : ANY
45
Squirm : WRITHE
46
Commonplace : OLDHAT
47
Spearmint, e.g. : HERB
48
Key with three sharps : AMAJOR
49
Oath taker's aid : BIBLE
50
Classic epic : ILIAD
55
Head, in an école : TETE
56
College course, briefly : ECON
57
Mark indicating "O.K. as is" : STET
59
Heavens : SKY
61
Abbr. on W.W. II maps : ETO
62
Bayh or Biden: Abbr. : SEN

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

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