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New York Times, Monday, January 16, 2012

Author:
Andrea Carla Michaels
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
7-Down : Wear away, as soil
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Andrea Carla Michaels

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QVXZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 32 for Ms. Michaels. Monday freshness: 83%
Andrea Carla Michaels notes:

This one was inspired from Patrick Blindauer's wedding to his lovely bride Rebecca in St. Louis. I wanted CLANGCLANGCLANG 15 WENTTHETROLLEY 13 and MEETMEINSTLOUIS 15 but somehow that evolved into just three repeating words.

I thought PICKYPICKYPICKY was funny and MONEYMONEYMONEY was the name of a song. Again Will pushed for four, which is the new 3. WORDSWORDSWORDS was from Shakespeare so I thought that classed things up a bit!

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© 2012, The New York Times1/16/12 ( No. 22,714 )
Across
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Kind of 54-Down that's flavored with flowers : JASMINE
8
Compilation book : OMNIBUS
15
Tiberius or Charlemagne : EMPEROR
16
Flowering shrub common in the South : LANTANA
17
Hamlet's reply to "What do you read, my lord?" : WORDSWORDSWORDS
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"The ___ the limit!" : SKYS
20
Musical piece for two : DUET
21
"Cheers" actor Roger : REES
22
Laughed contemptuously : SNEERED
25
Desertlike : DRY
26
California peak : SHASTA
30
Tear : RIP
32
"You're too hard to please!" : PICKYPICKYPICKY
39
Jai ___ : ALAI
40
Bearded beast of Africa : GNU
41
"Damn Yankees" seductress : LOLA
42
1976 Abba hit : MONEYMONEYMONEY
47
Louis XIV, par exemple : ROI
48
Cosmetician Lauder and others : ESTEES
49
It's all the rage : FAD
52
Not oral : WRITTEN
56
Bushy do : AFRO
58
On a cruise : ASEA
59
Fencing sword : EPEE
63
How the trolley went in a 1944 song : CLANGCLANGCLANG
67
Perceptible by touch : TACTILE
68
Prodding into action : GOOSING
69
Moe, Larry and Curly : STOOGES
70
Big name in multivitamins : ONEADAY
Down
1
A majority of Israelis : JEWS
2
Frenzied : AMOK
3
Nimble for one's age : SPRY
4
Docs prescribe them : MEDS
5
Tax org. : IRS
6
This very minute : NOW
7
Wear away, as soil : ERODE
8
Like a big brother : OLDER
9
Expertise : MASTERY
10
Opposite of SSE : NNW
11
"Believe ___ Not!" : ITOR
12
Exposed : BARED
13
Beneath : UNDER
14
Impertinent : SASSY
18
Parisian street : RUE
22
Pig's digs : STY
23
40 winks : NAP
24
Quick swim : DIP
26
E-mail that's sent out by the millions : SPAM
27
Largest city on the island of Hawaii : HILO
28
Open ___ of worms : ACAN
29
T-bar rider : SKIER
31
Aviator : PILOT
33
"Can ___ now?" : IGO
34
Channel for Anderson Cooper : CNN
35
Letter before ar : KUE
36
Ice cream treat : CONE
37
Swiss artist Paul : KLEE
38
Cheers for successes : YAYS
43
"Ouch!" : YOW
44
Backup singer for Smokey Robinson : MIRACLE
45
"___-haw!" : YEE
46
AOL alternative : MSN
49
Statistics, e.g. : FACTS
50
Black key above G : AFLAT
51
Northern constellation : DRACO
53
Capri and Wight : ISLES
54
Pekoe, e.g. : TEA
55
"It takes two" to do this : TANGO
57
Knowledgeable about : ONTO
59
"Born Free" lioness : ELSA
60
No longer owed : PAID
61
Sicilian city : ENNA
62
Like a soufflé : EGGY
64
Band's engagement : GIG
65
Suffix with penta-, hexa-, hepta-, etc. : GON
66
Iowa college : COE

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

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