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New York Times, Thursday, August 30, 2007

Author:
Victor Fleming and Bruce Venzke
Editor:
Will Shortz
52-Across : First name in architecture
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
473/29/200512/29/202125
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75107666
CircleScrabDebutFresh
21.5522358%
Victor Fleming
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
198/26/200410/19/201518
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2264320
ScrabDebutFresh
1.6110045%
Bruce Venzke

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 25 Missing: {GJKQZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Fleming. This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Venzke. Thursday freshness: 74%
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© 2007, The New York Times8/30/7 ( No. 21,114 )
Across
1
Seinfeld's "sworn enemy" : NEWMAN
7
En route : ONTHEWAY
15
Dig up : EXHUME
16
Vicious sorts : PIRANHAS
17
1961 Connie Francis hit : WHERETHEBOYSARE
19
Up to no good : SINISTER
20
Sterile, in a way : NEUTER
21
Debussy's "Air de ___" : LIA
22
Word before Oscar or Orloff : VEAL
24
Madras title : SRI
25
Intl. agreement since 1993 : NAFTA
27
Class-conscious grps.? : PTAS
29
Prefix with skeleton : ENDO
32
Hold 'em challenge : IRAISE
34
Fourth book of the Book of Mormon : ENOS
36
Gore follower : TEX
37
Eponymous rink jump : SALCHOW
39
Bring up : ELEVATE
41
View from Long Is. : ATL
42
Tennyson woman called "the Fair" : ENID
44
___ Beach, Fla. : DELRAY
45
___ Jordan, who wrote "The Crying Game" : NEIL
47
A writer may work on it : SPEC
49
Bolero, e.g. : DANCE
50
Long on screen : NIA
52
First name in architecture : EERO
54
One-third of a Morse "O" : DAH
55
Children's author/photographer Alda : ARLENE
58
"Here, I can help you" : PERMITME
61
End of a line about "friends" : WHONEEDSENEMIES
63
Not be honest about oneself : LIVEALIE
64
Ingredients in many stews : ONIONS
65
Derides : SNEERSAT
66
Become, as mush : TURNTO
Down
1
Google heading : NEWS
2
Thrill : EXHILARATE
3
1952 Doris Day hit that was an even bigger hit for the Lettermen in 1961 : WHENIFALLINLOVE
4
___ acid (old name for hydrochloric acid) : MURIATIC
5
Bob ___, young man in Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" : AMES
6
Web-based service : NETTV
7
Be in charge of : OPERATE
8
Pointed extremity : NIB
9
Suffix with beta : TRON
10
First sitting president to visit the West Coast : HAYES
11
Protect : ENSURE
12
"Huh?!" : WHATINTARNATION
13
It rises in the Bernese Alps : AARE
14
Battle of the ___, 1914 : YSER
18
Mr. Wickfield's clerk, in literature : HEEP
23
Narrow way : LANE
25
Passover month : NISAN
26
Gentleman of the court : ASHE
28
"Deal!" : SOLD
30
Troop group : DETACHMENT
31
Kind of daisy : OXEYE
33
Eternities : EONS
35
Starting point : SEED
38
Efface, with "off" : WIPE
40
One of the men waiting in "Waiting for Godot" : VLADIMIR
43
Like some eyes : DEEPSET
46
Mortgagor, e.g. : LIENEE
48
Canadian native : CREE
51
At hand, in poems : ANEAR
53
Optional phrase : ORNOT
55
Belt-hole makers : AWLS
56
Nose: Prefix : RHIN
57
Reef dwellers : EELS
59
Button on an iPod : MENU
60
Sinclair alternative : ESSO
62
Part of una semana : DIA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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