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New York Times, Thursday, August 20, 2009

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
61-Across : Dickens creep
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 This is puzzle # 170 for Ms. Gorski. Thursday freshness: 96%
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© 2009, The New York Times8/20/9 ( No. 21,835 )
Across
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Big name in oil : WESSON
7
Easter flower, in Is-sur-Tille : LIS
10
Butterfly wings, e.g. : ALAE
14
The fool in "A fool and his money are soon parted" : ANTECEDENT
16
Tabula ___ : RASA
17
Excuse given for asking for a ride : IDONTDRIVE
18
Humanoid trees in Tolkien : ENTS
19
Ticks, say: Abbr. : SECS
20
Toddler's attire : ONESIE
21
Time for potty training, maybe : AGETWO
22
Rests : TAKESFIVE
25
Chorus line opener : TRA
27
Handel cantata "___ e Leandro" : ERO
28
Promgoers, e.g.: Abbr. : SRS
29
Burning : AFIRE
32
Not shaky : SOLID
34
Jagged : EROSE
35
Clinks overseas : GAOLS
36
What's revealed by connecting the special squares in this puzzle in order : PARALLELOGRAM
39
Start of the United Negro College Fund slogan : AMIND
40
Kosher : LEGIT
41
___ Szewinska, Olympic sprinting gold medalist of 1964, 1968 and 1976 : IRENA
42
Want from : ASKOF
43
Ab ___ (from the top) : OVO
46
Partisan leader? : NON
47
Tube top : CAP
49
Daze : STUPOR
51
Nice kind of workweek : FOURDAY
53
G.M., Ford and Chrysler : BIGTHREE
56
Setting for an Agatha Christie novel : NILE
57
Proctor's call : TIME
58
Advice for essay writers : BEORIGINAL
61
Dickens creep : HEEP
62
Eight producers? : ICESKATERS
63
Payroll dept. figs. : SSNS
64
Wiring experts: Abbr. : EES
65
Paris palace : ELYSEE
Down
1
Middles that are often too big : WAISTS
2
Ingratiate : ENDEAR
3
Has on hand : STOCKS
4
Intuit : SENSE
5
When Canada celebrates Thanksgiving: Abbr. : OCT
6
Washington in the Songwriters Hall of Fame : NED
7
Hawaiian strings? : LEIS
8
You might get one before a party : INVITE
9
Direct : STEER
10
Neck of the woods : AREA
11
Tony-winning "Frost/Nixon" actor : LANGELLA
12
Constellation : ASTERISM
13
Best Director of 1992 and 2004 : EASTWOOD
15
Be an utter bore? : DRONE
23
Beer from upstate New York : SARANAC
24
Like the symmetry of a starfish : FIVEFOLD
26
Free of charge : ASAGIFT
30
Part of some chains: Abbr. : ISL
31
Walks unsteadily : REELS
33
___ cloud (region of comets far beyond Pluto) : OORT
34
Celtic land : ERIN
35
"Beauty and the Beat" band : GOGOS
36
P.D.Q. Bach's "Sanka Cantata" and such : PARODIES
37
Final words of Numbers 5:22 : AMENAMEN
38
Albanian coin : LEK
41
How mini-pizzas are usually cut : INFOURTHS
42
Each : APIECE
43
Sounds off : OPINES
44
1958 #1 song with the lyric "Let's fly way up to the clouds" : VOLARE
45
Bully's warning : ORELSE
48
Old comic strip "___ an' Slats" : ABBIE
50
Concord : UNITY
52
O.K.'s from the O.K. Corral? : YEPS
54
Exits : GOES
55
School basics : THREERS
59
Presidential nickname : IKE
60
Square dance partner : GAL

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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