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New York Times, Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Author:
Dan Flanagan
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
58-Across : Wear away
TotalDebut
18/8/2017
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.5338%
Dan Flanagan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {BJWXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Flanagan. Tuesday freshness: 14%
Dan Flanagan notes:
I got started writing crossword puzzles through of a friend who publishes a small newspaper in northern Michigan. I was visiting a few ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
4/4, 11/11, 20/20, 50/50 progression today. For the non-musicians out there, 4/4 is the most common time signature in music, meaning ... read more
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© 2017, The New York Times8/8/17 ( No. 24,745 )
Across
1
Row : SPAT
5
Worn out : SPENT
10
The Kleenex of cotton swabs : QTIP
14
Predator of dolphins : ORCA
15
Press secretary ___ Huckabee Sanders : SARAH
16
___ Major (Big Dipper's constellation) : URSA
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Smidgen : IOTA
20
Prepare to be knighted : KNEEL
21
Indianapolis-to-Cleveland dir. : ENE
22
To whom "break a leg" is said : ACTOR
23
Period in Congress : SESSION
25
Basketball highlight : DUNK
27
11/11 : VETERANSDAY
32
Hay and such for farm animals : FODDER
36
"The Raven" poet : POE
37
Prefix with space : AERO
38
Girlfriends in Paris : AMIES
39
"Great Expectations" protagonist : PIP
40
Tiptoe, perhaps : SNEAK
41
Drug informant, informally : NARC
42
"The Lord of the Rings" baddie : ORC
43
Walk like a two-year-old, say : TODDLE
44
20/20 : GREATVISION
47
Trolley : TRAM
48
Division of baseball's N.L. or A.L. : CENTRAL
53
Always trying to get one's way : PUSHY
56
Green: Prefix : ECO
58
Wear away : ERODE
59
European automaker : OPEL
60
50/50 : EVENSTEVEN
62
"The Simpsons" character with a palindromic name : OTTO
63
"Sexy" woman in a Beatles song : SADIE
64
Start running : MELT
65
Butcher's cut : LOIN
66
Put in office : ELECT
67
You are, south of the border : ERES
Down
1
Argyle pair : SOCKS
2
Lying on one's stomach : PRONE
3
Zeniths : ACMES
4
Takes the wildness out of : TAMES
5
I.R.S. digits: Abbr. : SSN
6
It lasts 20 years : PATENT
7
The Emerald Isle : ERIN
8
Say "When I was with my good friend Barack last week ...," e.g. : NAMEDROP
9
Word ignored when alphabetizing : THE
10
Something that gives you a sinking feeling : QUICKSAND
11
Home-run run : TROT
12
Analogy words : ISTO
13
Jack of the old "Tonight Show" : PAAR
18
Mount of ___ (Jerusalem landmark) : OLIVES
22
Advice-giving Landers : ANN
24
"___ the land of the free ..." : OER
26
Dubai's home: Abbr. : UAE
28
Some long novels : EPICS
29
Monopoly card : DEED
30
Asia's disappearing ___ Sea : ARAL
31
Oxen connector : YOKE
32
Dracula's biter : FANG
33
Vizquel with 11 Gold Gloves : OMAR
34
Like some straits : DIRE
35
Olympic event won by Bruce Jenner in 1976 and Ashton Eaton in 2012 and 2016 : DECATHLON
39
Really, really old : PRIMEVAL
40
One of 154 by Shakespeare : SONNET
42
Eggs : OVA
43
Lowest digit : TOE
45
Word repeated before "again" : TRY
46
Like Warhol's Marilyn Monroe painting : ICONIC
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Onetime HBO series set in New Orleans : TREME
50
Standard dog name : ROVER
51
"Skyfall" singer : ADELE
52
Periods after Mardi Gras : LENTS
53
Summer hangout : POOL
54
"I've had it ___ here!" : UPTO
55
Org. in Carl Sagan's "Contact" : SETI
57
Surrender : CEDE
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Suffix in many language names : ESE
61
Ready : SET

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

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