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New York Times, Thursday, August 31, 2006

Author:
Patrick Merrell
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Across : Perfidious clerk in "David Copperfield"
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Patrick Merrell

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {BJQVWXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 60 for Mr. Merrell. Thursday freshness: 65%
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P
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© 2006, The New York Times8/31/6 ( No. 20,750 )
Across
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Person of letters? : PENPAL
7
Picker-uppers : PEPPILLS
15
Pique : AROUSE
16
Prairie State : ILLINOIS
17
Peanut brittle base : TOFFEE
18
Puts faith in : COUNTSON
19
Preceders of G : CDEF
20
Pusan soldier : ROK
22
Pair of filmmaking brothers : COENS
23
Perfidious clerk in "David Copperfield" : HEEP
24
Practically no time : AFLASH
27
Pamphlet with a "Draw Me" challenge : ARTTEST
29
Pageantry : POMP
33
Phoenix neighbor : MESA
35
Paternity identifier : DNA
36
Personal: Prefix : IDIO
37
Pretty souvenir : PICTUREPOSTCARD
41
Play's ___'acte : ENTR
42
"Protect mine innocence, ___ fall into the trap ...": "King Henry VIII" : ORI
43
Portree's isle : SKYE
44
Port-of-call call : AHOY
45
Pay no heed to smoking rules : LIGHTUP
48
Parisian thought : PENSEE
49
Paulina's "other" : OTRA
53
Paper towel-touting waitress : ROSIE
57
Pisa monk's title : FRA
58
Peter Sellers parodied him in "Murder by Death" : CHAN
59
Pair on a head : ANTENNAE
62
"Princess Ida" follow-up operetta, with "The" : MIKADO
64
Pacific wriggler : SEASNAKE
65
PC info : USERID
66
Pulsating sound, informally : PITTYPAT
67
Potato, meat and sauce dish : POTPIE
Down
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Pirate's eye cover : PATCH
2
Partly eat away : ERODE
3
"Payment not required" : NOFEE
4
Pepperidge Farm offering : PUFFPASTRY
5
Peer Gynt's mother : ASE
6
Profligately eye : LEERAT
7
Preserved food in jars : PICKLEDPIGSFEET
8
Pop grp. heard in "Xanadu" : ELO
9
Phenomena or personae: Abbr. : PLU
10
Practice economy, when preceded by 48-Down : PINCH
11
Preoccupied with : INTO
12
Place last, say : LOSE
13
Pride member : LION
14
Payroll dept. ID's : SSNS
21
Poetic adverb : OFT
25
"... perhaps comes ___ surprise ..." : ASNO
26
Penn. and others : STAS
28
President Johannes ___ of Germany, 1999-2004 : RAU
29
Petty criminal : PICKPOCKET
30
Performer with Krupa and Kenton : ODAY
31
Peat source : MIRE
32
Plant container, when preceded by 37-Down : POD
33
Phu My Hung site, Ho Chi ___ City : MINH
34
Plasm prefix : ECTO
37
Preceder of 32-Down : PEA
38
Part : ROLE
39
Poetic name for Ireland : ERIN
40
Pedagogical inits. in Nashville : TSU
46
Part of H.M.S. : HER
47
Partner (with) : TEAMUP
48
Preceder of 10-Down : PENNY
50
"Push Comes to Shove" choreographer : THARP
51
Projections from a central point : RADII
52
Positive end : ANODE
53
Prisoner's tool for escape : RASP
54
"Phew! Finally ___ know!" : ONEI
55
P.D.Q., to a surgeon : STAT
56
Pluck or hair extension? : IEST
60
Pile : NAP
61
Pseudonym lead-in : AKA
63
Prefix with propyl : ISO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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