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New York Times, Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Down : Taking too much
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. This is puzzle # 114 for Mr. Quigley. Wednesday freshness: 74%
Notepad: DIAGONAL
1 Face imaginary enemies
7 1972 Bill Withers #1 hit
37 Bettor's buy
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© 2007, The New York Times1/31/7 ( No. 20,903 )
Across
1
Base runner's stats : THEFTS
7
Basis for the musical "Rent" : LABOHEME
15
Jockey Shoemaker : WILLIE
16
Manta ray : SEADEVIL
17
Rusher's cry : IMLATE
18
Previews : TRAILERS
19
Cousin of a raccoon : COATI
20
TV forensic drama : CSI
21
Young muchacho : NINO
22
Ambulance letters : EMS
23
Bubble contents : AIR
25
Waffle brand : EGGO
27
How tuna salad may be served : ONTOAST
29
Bio word : NEE
32
One-wheeled vehicles : BARROWS
34
Plays chords, perhaps : STRUMS
37
Hunt down : TRACE
38
Early sixth-century year : DII
40
Certain navel : OUTIE
41
Spleen venting : TIRADE
43
Crime lab job : DNATEST
45
"Dern tootin'!" : YEP
46
Not quite catch fire : SMOLDER
48
Town near Caen : STLO
50
Flagship fig. : ADM
51
Donkey Kong, for one : APE
54
Cry from a crib : WAAH
56
One who may bug you : SPY
58
Rock climber's tool : PITON
60
Wicked acts : MISDEEDS
62
Spray alternative : ROLLON
63
Indian beverage : ASSAMTEA
64
It's basic : ALKALI
65
Got mushy : WENTSOFT
66
Predicaments : MESSES
Down
1
Time and time again? : TWICE
2
Handmade sign in a stadium : HIMOM
3
Greece, to modern Greeks : ELLAS
4
Showing no growth : FLAT
5
Brownish orange : TITIANRED
6
"Told ya!" : SEE
7
D-Day craft : LSTS
8
High homes : AERIES
9
Cote sound : BAA
10
Taking too much : ODING
11
Sun: Prefix : HELIO
12
Tied up : EVEN
13
Surrealist Joan : MIRO
14
Ways around Chi-town : ELS
20
Jam in elbow to elbow : CROWD
24
"Am ___ believe ??" : ITO
26
Sporty cars : GTS
27
Preyer on seals : ORCA
28
"Like me" : ASIDO
29
Bananas : NUTS
30
Throw off : EMIT
31
Compass dir. : ESE
32
Cracker topper : BRIE
33
Org. for boomers, now : AARP
35
Headline? : TOTEMPOLE
36
Sorry sort? : RUER
37
Communications syst. for the deaf : TTY
39
Mosaic element : INLAY
42
Alien's subj. : ESL
44
Contribute : ADD
47
Rapper who co-starred in "The Italian Job" : MOSDEF
48
1978 co-Nobelist : SADAT
49
"___ the breaks" : THEMS
51
Two-dimensional world? : ATLAS
52
English Channel port : POOLE
53
Bandleader Skinnay ___ : ENNIS
54
Impudent : WISE
55
N.C.A.A. part: Abbr. : ASSN
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Jr.'s exam : PSAT
59
Sorts : ILKS
60
Gaping mouth : MAW
61
W.W. II inits. : ETO
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Zodiac creature : RAM

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

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