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New York Times, Saturday, September 27, 2008

Author:
Karen M. Tracey
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : How a towpath proceeds vis-à-vis a canal
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Karen M. Tracey

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 33 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 20 for Ms. Tracey. Saturday freshness: 61%
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© 2008, The New York Times9/27/8 ( No. 21,508 )
Across
1
Third Servile War leader : SPARTACUS
10
1970s R&B trio in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with "the" : OJAYS
15
Driving ambition? : HOLEINONE
16
Hero : POBOY
17
How a towpath proceeds vis-à-vis a canal : ALONGSIDE
18
Indication of time passing : TICKS
19
Credit card come-on : NOFEE
20
Gaming debut of 1985, briefly : NES
21
Certain blowup : INSET
22
Fatty acid, e.g. : ESTER
23
Bring up : BROACH
25
Jam : CLOGUP
27
Got a 15-Across on : ACED
31
Whence the expression "mum's the word" : DONQUIXOTE
35
"Hogan's Heroes" figure : NAZI
36
Med. supplier? : IVTUBE
37
Chocoholic's dessert : MUDPIE
39
Christchurch native : KIWI
40
Green patch : GARDENSPOT
44
1999 film satirizing media ruthlessness : EDTV
45
Half-sister of King Arthur : ELAINE
46
Assuaging agents : EASERS
48
Black tea from India : ASSAM
53
Ninth, e.g. : CHORD
56
Young vixen : KIT
57
First lady of the 1980s : RAISA
58
Shower accessory : LOOFA
59
Courage : STOUTNESS
61
Former congresswoman nicknamed Mother Courage : ABZUG
62
Louis Armstrong's "Weather Bird" collaborator : EARLHINES
63
David who played Bosley on TV's "Charlie's Angels" : DOYLE
64
Not willful? : INTESTATE
Down
1
Oscar-nominated western : SHANE
2
Golf attire : POLOS
3
Not grounded? : ALOFT
4
Richards with a racket : RENEE
5
Den delivery : TIGERCUB
6
FAQs bit: Abbr. : ANS
7
Part of a pinball machine : COINBOX
8
Endure : UNDERGO
9
Stays until the end of : SEESOUT
10
___ disk (blind spot) : OPTIC
11
Unite (with) : JOINHANDS
12
Early instruction : ABCS
13
One placed on a team : YOKE
14
Part of 20-Across: Abbr. : SYST
24
Ancestors from long, long ago : APEMEN
26
Vassals : LIEGES
28
Creator of Earthquake McGoon and Moonbeam McSwine : CAPP
29
"The Silence of the Hams" director Greggio : EZIO
30
Become less of a person? : DIET
31
Bank manager? : DIKE
32
One of his lost works is "Medea" : OVID
33
Container abbr. : NTWT
34
Supply of arrows : QUIVERFUL
38
Turns up : UNEARTHS
41
Soviet premier Kosygin : ALEKSEI
42
New Brunswick's river : RARITAN
43
Skew : DISTORT
47
Sometime sampler stitching : ADAGE
49
Municipal dept. : SANIT
50
Touristy Tuscany town : SIENA
51
Thing worth keeping : ASSET
52
Tricky shot : MASSE
53
Outfitted : CLAD
54
Great Depression figure : HOBO
55
Like slime : OOZY
60
Cousin of -let : ULE

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

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