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New York Times, Monday, January 11, 2010

Author:
Ron and Nancy Byron
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
31-Down : 10th-century Holy Roman emperor
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Ron Byron
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Nancy Byron

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {KQZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Byron. This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Byron. Monday freshness: 59%
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© 2010, The New York Times1/11/10 ( No. 21,979 )
Across
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Go back and forth in deciding : WAVER
6
Traffic tie-ups : JAMS
10
Hit hard : BASH
14
Common cause of food poisoning : ECOLI
15
Qatari ruler : EMIR
16
Melville novel : OMOO
17
Alaska boondoggle in 2008 campaign news : BRIDGETONOWHERE
20
Eliot's "Adam ___" : BEDE
21
Roman 552 : DLII
22
Put a spell on : HEXED
23
Relative of an ostrich : RHEA
25
Part of a mushroom : STEM
27
Place to get gas : FILLINGSTATION
33
Minds : OBEYS
34
Tue. follower : WED
35
Having ___ of fun : ATON
37
Yukon S.U.V. maker : GMC
38
Very hot and dry : SAHARAN
42
Uno + due : TRE
43
Reach across : SPAN
45
'60s-'70s service site : NAM
46
Molecule parts : ATOMS
48
Full-size Fords : CROWNVICTORIAS
52
Quaker pronoun : THEE
53
Where Obama was born : OAHU
54
Texas A & M player : AGGIE
57
Summit : APEX
59
Degrees for corp. execs : MBAS
63
Gets ready to crash : BRACESFORIMPACT
66
Cotton unit : BALE
67
State north of Ill. : WISC
68
MetLife competitor : AETNA
69
Still sleeping : ABED
70
Suffix with major : ETTE
71
Bygone anesthetic : ETHER
Down
1
Jack who played Sgt. Friday : WEBB
2
Plot unit : ACRE
3
Null and ___ : VOID
4
Getting on in years : ELDERLY
5
Semi-tractor trailer : RIG
6
Trans-Atlantic air traveler's woe : JETLAG
7
Mine, in Marseille : AMOI
8
Reverend : MINISTER
9
Sellout sign : SRO
10
Western part of the Czech Republic : BOHEMIA
11
"Don't leave home without it" card : AMEX
12
Achy : SORE
13
Cleared weeds, say : HOED
18
Genesis garden : EDEN
19
Hone : WHET
24
Snake's sound : HISS
26
"Didn't I do great?!" : TADA
27
Clouds (up) : FOGS
28
1980s hardware that used Microsoft Basic : IBMPC
29
Old Renault : LECAR
30
Beturbaned seer : SWAMI
31
10th-century Holy Roman emperor : OTTOI
32
___ Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe) : NORMA
36
Eliot of "The Untouchables" : NESS
39
"The Diary of ___ Frank" : ANNE
40
Lose one's temper : HAVEAFIT
41
Sodium hydroxide, to a chemist : NAOH
44
Observed : NOTICED
47
Dizzy Gillespie's instrument : TRUMPET
49
Cry on a roller coaster : WHEE
50
Force : COERCE
51
Vehicle with a medallion : TAXI
54
"Dancing Queen" group : ABBA
55
Snatch : GRAB
56
Near-hurricane-force wind : GALE
58
Part of P.O. or P.S. : POST
60
The Wife of ___ (Chaucer character) : BATH
61
Teen affliction : ACNE
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One of seven in the Big Dipper : STAR
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Stockholm's land: Abbr. : SWE
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Fannie ___ : MAE

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

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