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New York Times, Friday, January 13, 2017

Author:
Andrew J. Ries
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
33-Down : Adjudicate
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
348/13/20071/29/20222
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CircleScrabDebutFresh
31.5614362%
Andrew Ries

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Ries. Friday freshness: 12%
Jeff Chen notes:
Solid grid, featuring a good number of snazzy entries. I liked how Andrew spread his assets around, from STOLEN BASES to SKATE PARKS ... read more
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© 2017, The New York Times1/13/17 ( No. 24,538 )
Across
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After the hour : PAST
5
Lou who wrote "Exporting America" : DOBBS
10
Plague, with "at" : GNAW
14
Instrument with a bent neck : LUTE
15
Key : ISLET
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Defraud, in slang : HOSE
17
Very much : ATON
18
Recreational sites not designed for walkers : SKATEPARKS
20
Is a bad loser, say : SULKS
22
Family name in Sir Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor" : ASHTON
23
Fr. title : MME
24
Zimbalist of old TV : EFREM
26
One of the renters in Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flat" : PABLO
30
Founder of the American Shakers : ANNLEE
32
Sweet pitcherful : ADE
34
Important word to a marriage counselor : OUR
35
New homeowner's feeling, maybe : BUYERSREMORSE
39
@fakechucknorris, for one : PARODYACCOUNT
40
Diorama, maybe : MUSEUMEXHIBIT
41
Updated art? : ARE
42
Wrap (up) : SEW
43
Things to do after dinner : DISHES
46
Painter's primer : GESSO
48
President who said "If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become president" : HAVEL
51
Secret ending : IVE
52
Word before or after state : POLICE
54
Ricoh rival : EPSON
56
They're "family" : COSANOSTRA
60
Pride : lions : parliament : ___ : OWLS
61
God for whom a weekday is named : ODIN
62
Real stinker : SKUNK
63
All-nighter, maybe : RAVE
64
Like high school and college students of the '80s-'90s, e.g. : GENX
65
Competitive and outgoing, say : TYPEA
66
Views : EYES
Down
1
Bank deposit : PLASMA
2
Fall : AUTUMN
3
Record stat for major-leaguer Rickey Henderson : STOLENBASES
4
Running event : TENK
5
Slam : DIS
6
Title role in a 1993 film ... which sounds like a prize the film won : OSKAR
7
Unimpressed : BLASE
8
Character who dies at the end of "Little Women" : BETHMARCH
9
Editorial reversal : STET
10
Burkina Faso neighbor : GHANA
11
Here-there connection : NOR
12
Require (of) : ASK
13
Jazzman Montgomery : WES
19
The first one was a modified Ford D-Series truck : POPEMOBILE
21
"Toodles" : SEEYOUSOON
25
What a meow may mean : FEEDME
27
Grammy-nominated 2011 Lady Gaga album : BORNTHISWAY
28
Aphrodisia : LUST
29
Dug stuff : ORE
31
Bonus upon signing, e.g. : LURE
33
Adjudicate : DECIDE
36
George Dickel product : RYEWHISKY
37
___ and violins (music pun) : SAX
38
Some French votes : OUIS
39
Without any filler : PURE
40
Newsstand offering, informally : MAG
44
Change with the times : EVOLVE
45
Intuits : SENSES
47
Big name in shapewear : SPANX
49
Start to malfunction : ACTUP
50
Author with a restaurant at the Eiffel Tower named for him : VERNE
53
Like Hansel and Gretel in the forest : LOST
55
Bead producer? : PORE
56
Part of the works : COG
57
"How Sleep the Brave," e.g. : ODE
58
28-Down, e.g. : SIN
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Handle preceder : AKA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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