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New York Times, Saturday, August 13, 2011

Author:
Tim Croce
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
15-Across : Trigger-happy sound?
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Tim Croce

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {QVX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Croce. Saturday freshness: 11%
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G
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O
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W
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J
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P
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B
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© 2011, The New York Times8/13/11 ( No. 22,558 )
Across
1
Lit : AGLOW
6
Up to one's old tricks : ATITAGAIN
15
Trigger-happy sound? : NEIGH
16
Propositions : COMESONTO
17
In a main location? : ATSEA
18
Like newly available products : ROLLEDOUT
19
Take care of the spread : CATER
20
Winnebago relative : OTOE
21
New Mexican, e.g. : NINO
22
It's raw : ORE
23
"That's it" : FINIS
25
"Singin' in the Rain" co-director : DONEN
26
Unlike aristos : NONU
28
Allspice and clove's family : MYRTLE
30
Ki ___ (legendary founder of Korea) : TSE
31
City representatives? : DOTS
32
Letters in some church names : AME
33
Walk-___ : INS
35
Pastoral prophet : AMOS
36
It worked from a prompt : MSDOS
38
Allowing peeking, perhaps : AJAR
42
Viroid composition : RNA
44
Offensive time? : TET
45
Splendid : AONE
46
See 62-Down : PIT
49
Like old AM radio : INMONO
51
AM or FM specification : BAND
52
Make a measure : ENACT
54
Clear wrongs : ATONE
56
Jacques Cousteau, e.g. : NOM
57
Am or Fm stat : ATNO
58
Sci-fi writer Frederik : POHL
59
Go all the way through : IMBUE
61
Fifth in a series of seven old comedy films : ROADTORIO
63
Her temple was adorned with cows' horns : DIANA
64
Extravagant way to live : LIKEAKING
65
Set up : ERECT
66
View on a clear night : STARRYSKY
67
Gets down to the ground? : RAZES
Down
1
One you don't want to have a crush on you : ANACONDA
2
Order to curtail public bussing : GETAROOM
3
Not block out : LISTENTO
4
Arch type : OGEE
5
Slip site : WHARF
6
MoMA and Epcot, e.g. : ACRONYMS
7
Mind-numbingly exhausted : TOOTIREDTOTHINK
8
"That made no sense to me" : IMLOST
9
"SCTV" segment? : TELE
10
Polymer finish? : ASE
11
"You couldn't be more wrong!" : GODNO
12
Install in an office : ANOINT
13
Its logo features two eighth notes : ITUNES
14
Zip : NOTONE
24
Yardbirds hit of 1965 : IMAMAN
25
Place for a retreat : DEN
27
Red giant, once? : USSR
29
Clay target? : LISTON
34
9-5, e.g. : SAAB
37
It's concerned with ports : OENOLOGY
39
Follower of Arlo Guthrie at Woodstock : JOANBAEZ
40
Come out with : ANNOUNCE
41
Duck, emu, etc. : REDMEATS
43
Baby beef? : NIT
46
Finds on a bed : PEARLS
47
Digging something : INTOIT
48
Godzilla creator Tomoyuki ___ : TANAKA
50
They call their native language "te reo" : MAORIS
53
Many a software company employee : CODER
55
Comforter material : EIDER
58
Like tailgated drivers, often : POKY
60
Red giant in Cetus : MIRA
62
With 46-Across, prehistoric animal preserver : TAR

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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