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New York Times, Monday, June 4, 2012

Author:
John R. O'Brien
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
52-Across : Microscopic blob
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John R. O'Brien

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 80, Blocks: 42 Missing: {FJQ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. O'Brien. Monday freshness: 14%
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© 2012, The New York Times6/4/12 ( No. 22,854 )
Across
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Stick in one's ___ : CRAW
5
Czech capital : PRAGUE
11
Banned organic compound, for short : PCB
14
TV's warrior princess : XENA
15
Compassionate : HUMANE
16
Kind of baseball or battery : AAA
17
A classic beauty who is not all there : VENUSDEMILO
19
Satellite-based navigation aid, in brief : GPS
20
That is, in Latin : IDEST
21
Plains tribe : OTO
22
Wrap worn in India : SARI
23
Broadcast : AIR
25
Mini-hospital : CLINIC
27
Booster of the Apollo space program : SATURNROCKET
33
Frigid : ICY
34
Younger brother of Cain and Abel : SETH
35
Lowest point : NADIR
39
Country on the south side of Mount Everest : NEPAL
42
Chinese philosopher ___-tzu : LAO
43
Lopez with the 1963 hit "If I Had a Hammer" : TRINI
44
Spanish artist El ___ : GRECO
45
Colored part of the eye : IRIS
47
Lead-in to maniac or surfing : EGO
48
1960s-'70s Ford Company model : MERCURYCOMET
52
Microscopic blob : AMOEBA
55
West Coast travel hub, informally : LAX
56
"Largemouth" fish : BASS
57
By way of : VIA
60
Number in an octet : EIGHT
64
Many a line on a flight route map : ARC
65
Milky Way bars and others : MARSCANDIES
68
With 53-Down, a coffee-flavored liqueur : TIA
69
Some marbles : AGATES
70
Book before Nehemiah : EZRA
71
Floppy rabbit feature : EAR
72
Refuses to acknowledge : DENIES
73
River across the French/German border : SAAR
Down
1
116, in ancient Rome : CXVI
2
Clarinet or sax : REED
3
Actress Hathaway : ANNE
4
Wisconsin city : WAUSAU
5
What an M.A. might go on to earn : PHD
6
Regret : RUE
7
Bullets, informally : AMMO
8
Walk or trot : GAIT
9
Open with a key : UNLOCK
10
Fairness-in-hiring inits. : EEO
11
Polytheistic : PAGAN
12
Blue Grotto's island : CAPRI
13
Fundamental : BASIC
18
Use a swizzle stick : STIR
22
Indian instrument : SITAR
24
E.R. workers : RNS
26
Period after Shrove Tuesday : LENT
27
Be in a 32-Down, e.g. : SING
28
Taiwan-based computer giant : ACER
29
Genre : TYPE
30
Archaeologist's find : RELIC
31
Japanese port : OTARU
32
Group in church robes : CHOIR
36
"Carpe ___" : DIEM
37
Playwright William : INGE
38
Hilarious one : RIOT
40
High points : ACMES
41
Richard ___, Clarence Darrow defendant : LOEB
46
Word part: Abbr. : SYL
49
Wreak havoc on : RAVAGE
50
Battle of Normandy city : CAEN
51
Rust and lime : OXIDES
52
Diminish : ABATE
53
See 68-Across : MARIA
54
___ the Grouch : OSCAR
58
Modern Persia : IRAN
59
Italian wine city : ASTI
61
Egyptian pyramid city : GIZA
62
Wife of Zeus : HERA
63
Old Russian despot : TSAR
65
"What, me worry?" magazine : MAD
66
So-so grade : CEE
67
Donkey : ASS

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