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New York Times, Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Author:
Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke
Editor:
Will Shortz
59-Across : Part of a metropolitan area
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
228/26/200410/23/202314
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
13632331
ScrabDebutFresh
1.599247%
Stella Zawistowski
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
198/26/200410/19/201518
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2264320
ScrabDebutFresh
1.6110045%
Bruce Venzke

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 11 for Ms. Zawistowski. This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Venzke. Wednesday freshness: 77%
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© 2007, The New York Times9/19/7 ( No. 21,134 )
Across
1
"That stinks!," quaintly : BAH
4
Ladder danger : FALL
8
It makes Frisky frisky : CATNIP
14
Evangelical sch. with a 4,000+ enrollment : ORU
15
On the deep : ASEA
16
Top gun : AIRACE
17
Alternative to Gleem : AIM
18
"Pretty Woman" and "Waiting to Exhale" : CHICKFLICKS
20
Shul's shepherd : RABBI
22
On its way : SENT
23
Stew (over) : FRET
24
Shepherds' locales : LEAS
26
Like harp seals : EARLESS
28
Actor who got his start on TV's "Gimme a Break!" : JOEYLAWRENCE
32
Roadie's load : AMP
33
"Master" : SAHIB
34
"I Love Lucy" co-star : ARNAZ
38
Wing, e.g. : MAIM
40
Archie Bunker, famously : BIGOT
42
Belgrade resident : SERB
43
Dummy Mortimer : SNERD
45
Hit Sega title character : SONIC
47
Gene material : RNA
48
Shooter of westerns : COLTREVOLVER
51
What virgin drinks lack : ALCOHOL
54
1847 novel subtitled "A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" : OMOO
55
Gladly : LIEF
56
Oscar-winning role for Helen Mirren, in brief : QEII
59
Part of a metropolitan area : EXURB
62
They're exercised when cycling : CALFMUSCLES
65
___ Canals : SOO
66
Rival of Old El Paso : ORTEGA
67
Opera's ___ Te Kanawa : KIRI
68
Useful insect secretion : LAC
69
Not just hypothesize : ASSERT
70
It's hard to believe : YARN
71
Singer Sumac : YMA
Down
1
Animal hunted in one of Hercules' 12 labors : BOAR
2
___ da capo : ARIA
3
It's embarrassing to eat : HUMBLEPIE
4
Spa offerings : FACIALS
5
Tree of life, in Norse myth : ASH
6
Kauai keepsakes : LEIS
7
Some needlework : LACE
8
Beach cover-up : CAFTAN
9
Be indisposed : AIL
10
Those who don't behave seriously : TRIFLERS
11
Mother-of-pearl : NACRE
12
Clinton adviser Harold : ICKES
13
Termites and such : PESTS
19
Patella : KNEEBONE
21
Old Turkish title : BEY
25
Fashion designer Elie : SAAB
27
Pioneer in 33 1/3 r.p.m. records : RCA
28
Photocopier woes : JAMS
29
Land on the end of a peninsula : OMAN
30
Sounds from a teakettle : WHISTLES
31
Ordeal's quality : RIGOR
35
With shaking hands, perhaps : NERVOUSLY
36
"Rule, Britannia" composer : ARNE
37
Letter-shaped beam : ZBAR
39
Automatic-drip machine maker : MRCOFFEE
41
Busy viewer's convenience : TIVO
44
"What an idiot I am!" : DOH
46
Arrives : COMESIN
49
Plumlike Chinese fruit : LOQUAT
50
Fish eaten cold : LOX
51
Foil-making giant : ALCOA
52
Specialists in storytelling? : LIARS
53
Druids, e.g. : CELTS
57
Totally gross : ICKY
58
Pelvic bones : ILIA
60
Go far and wide : ROAM
61
Part of Florida's Gold Coast, informally : BOCA
63
Restaurant V.I.P.: Abbr. : MGR
64
Misreckon : ERR

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

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