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New York Times, Monday, June 22, 2009

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
49-Across : Prickly plant
TotalDebutLatest
15411/22/19939/1/2024
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1425262552948
RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.5550233%
Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {GKQ} This is puzzle # 116 for Mr. Piscop. Monday freshness: 11%
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© 2009, The New York Times6/22/9 ( No. 21,776 )
Across
1
King Kong, e.g. : APE
4
Trailer's connection to a car : HITCH
9
Highly skilled : ADEPT
14
Where IVs may be administered : ERS
15
Japanese automaker : ACURA
16
Theatrical medley : REVUE
17
Emphatic south-of-the-border assent : SISISENOR
19
Lessen : ABATE
20
Comet, say, to the impressionable : OMEN
21
Mocking remark : JAPE
22
After-dinner candies : MINTS
23
Central American canal locale : PANAMA
25
In great shape : FIT
26
Beginning piano student's exercise : CMAJORSCALE
33
Feeds, as pigs : SLOPS
37
Thing to hum or whistle : TUNE
38
Neural transmitter : AXON
39
Vagrant : HOBO
40
Test answer you have a 50/50 chance of guessing right : FALSE
41
Nevada gambling mecca : RENO
42
Demon's doing : EVIL
43
Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
44
Just sits around : IDLES
45
Parting words : SEEYOULATER
48
Finish : END
49
Prickly plant : NETTLE
54
No longer fashionable : PASSE
57
Killer whale : ORCA
60
United ___ Emirates : ARAB
61
A-list : ELITE
62
Wind that cools a beach : SEABREEZE
64
Aviator ___ Post : WILEY
65
Word said upon answering a phone : HELLO
66
Suffix with rocket or racket : EER
67
Shop : STORE
68
Woody or Gracie : ALLEN
69
Banned bug spray : DDT
Down
1
See 8-Down : AESOP
2
___ donna (vain sort) : PRIMA
3
Ruhr Valley city : ESSEN
4
Contains : HAS
5
Winter river obstruction : ICEJAM
6
Bluefin, for one : TUNA
7
Wheat or soybeans : CROP
8
Loser to a tortoise, in a fable by 1-Down : HARE
9
Fragrance named for a Musketeer : ARAMIS
10
Quick, cashless way to pay for things : DEBITCARD
11
"___ Almighty" (2007 movie) : EVAN
12
Miniature golf shot : PUTT
13
Gadgets not needed in miniature golf : TEES
18
"___ pig's eye!" : INA
24
Roast hosts, for short : MCS
25
Costing nothing : FREE
27
The Beatles' "Any Time ___" : ATALL
28
Roberts of "Erin Brockovich" : JULIA
29
Beginning : ONSET
30
Rink leap : AXEL
31
The ___ Ranger : LONE
32
Outfielder Slaughter in the Baseball Hall of Fame : ENOS
33
Kenny Rogers's "___ a Mystery" : SHES
34
Zero, in tennis : LOVE
35
Village Voice award : OBIE
36
Leisure suit fabric : POLYESTER
40
Hatfield/McCoy affair : FEUD
44
Ill temper : IRE
46
Cyclops feature : ONEEYE
47
Give power to : ENABLE
50
___ kwon do : TAE
51
Cornered : TREED
52
Vegged out : LAZED
53
Roger with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down : EBERT
54
Sunday seats : PEWS
55
Touched down : ALIT
56
Storage for forage : SILO
57
Workplace watchdog org. : OSHA
58
Irish dance : REEL
59
Do some telemarketing : CALL
63
"Apollo 13" director Howard : RON

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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