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New York Times, Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Author:
Patrick Blindauer
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
5-Across : Moves quickly
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Patrick Blindauer

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {GQ} Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. This is puzzle # 29 for Mr. Blindauer. Wednesday freshness: 41%
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© 2009, The New York Times7/22/9 ( No. 21,806 )
Across
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It's found in chambers : AMMO
5
Moves quickly : TROTS
10
It was dropped in the '60s : ACID
14
Just watch TV, say : LOAF
15
Historic San Francisco theater, with "the" : ROXIE
16
Dame ___ Everage (Barry Humphries character) : EDNA
17
Olympic boxing gold medalist of 1964 : EOJFRAZIER
19
It may be down at the heel : SPUR
20
For the nonce : PROTEM
21
Was in a no-win situation? : DREW
23
Under the table : LIT
24
King in "Jesus Christ Superstar" : HEROD
25
Hero of Super Bowl III : JEONAMATH
27
Run out of gas, say : DIE
29
Tooth trouble : DECAY
30
47th U.S. vice president : OJEBIDEN
35
Cheri of "Scary Movie" : OTERI
38
Abrasive soap brand : LAVA
39
While away, as time : SPEND
42
Trampled (on) : TROD
43
Wipe : ERASE
45
Oscar winner of 1990 : OEJPESCI
47
Pockets of dough? : PITAS
50
Light hair color : ASH
51
Singer on day three of 1969's Woodstock : EJOCOCKER
54
Handy : OFUSE
59
Scand. land : NOR
60
"No, mein Herr" : NEIN
61
Egyptian god with the head of a jackal : ANUBIS
62
"'Tis a pity" : ALAS
64
School cafeteria fare ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme : SLOPPYJOES
66
Commend, as for outstanding service : CITE
67
More sick, in dialect : ILLER
68
Bibliophile's suffix : IANA
69
Archie or Veronica : TEEN
70
Winter Palace figures : TSARS
71
Canine order : STAY
Down
1
Jewish leader? : ALEPH
2
Roger who played the same role seven times : MOORE
3
Paramount : MAJOR
4
"___ the races!" : OFFTO
5
Disney World transport : TRAM
6
Cartoonist Chast : ROZ
7
Nitrous ___ : OXIDE
8
Steering system component : TIEROD
9
Composed : SERENE
10
1950s political inits. : AES
11
Sound system staples : CDPLAYERS
12
Indigenous Canadian : INUIT
13
Title before Sidious or Maul : DARTH
18
___-wip : REDDI
22
Steve Martin's birthplace : WACO
25
Cherokee, for one : JEEP
26
Certain finish : MATTE
28
Bouncers check them, briefly : IDS
30
Cheer for a matador : OLE
31
Candy holder : JAR
32
Disappear : EVAPORATE
33
Meat-and-potatoes : BASIC
34
Three-time Keanu Reeves character : NEO
36
"Arabian Nights" bird : ROC
37
Uganda's ___ Amin : IDI
40
By : NEAR
41
Wedding reception hirees : DJS
44
Neighbor of Slough : ETON
46
Like the 28-Down of underage drinkers : PHONY
48
Gets 100 on a test : ACESIT
49
Learned things : SKILLS
51
Pass : ENACT
52
Half of Brangelina : JOLIE
53
___ Gay (W.W. II bomber) : ENOLA
55
Some apples : FUJIS
56
W.W. II menace : UBOAT
57
___ College, north of Albany, N.Y. : SIENA
58
Lamb piece : ESSAY
61
Loan figs. : APRS
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Committee member, maybe: Abbr. : SEN
65
Word in a price : PER

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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