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New York Times, Monday, January 9, 2017

Author:
Neville Fogarty
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
52-Down : Republican pol Haley from South Carolina
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Neville Fogarty

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JMVXZ} This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Fogarty. Monday freshness: 58%
Neville Fogarty notes:
When I set out to write a themed crossword, I'll often start with the revealer entry, like this puzzle's BED HEAD. But somehow, that ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Bed sizes ranging from TWIN PEAKS to FULL HOUSE to QUEEN ANNE to KING COBRA, all tied together with BED HEAD as a revealer. Tidy ... read more
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© 2017, The New York Times1/9/17 ( No. 24,534 )
Across
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Puts on TV or radio : AIRS
5
Ending on several central Asian country names : STAN
9
Meanie in "Jack and the Beanstalk" : GIANT
14
U.S. weather agcy. : NOAA
15
Zeus' wife : HERA
16
___ and wiser : OLDER
17
1990s TV series about a murder in a town in Washington : TWINPEAKS
19
Film director Kurosawa : AKIRA
20
Made smooth, as wood : SANDED
21
Part of the conjugation of the French "avoir" : AIT
23
And others, for short : ETC
24
Bump fists : DAP
25
K-K-K-5-5, e.g., in poker : FULLHOUSE
28
Exhibit in an anatomy class : SKELETON
31
Guided : LED
32
Is sick : AILS
33
Four-baggers: Abbr. : HRS
34
Like favorite stations on a car radio : PRESET
38
Pie ___ mode : ALA
39
Result of failure to comb the hair after sleep, maybe ... or a feature of 17-, 25-, 49- or 61-Across? : BEDHEAD
41
School grp. : PTA
42
Young male viewed as a sex object : BOYTOY
44
Black ___ (covert doings) : OPS
45
___ Ticonderoga : FORT
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Apr. 15 mail addressee : IRS
47
Place to pull over on an interstate : RESTAREA
49
English monarch with a "lace" named after her : QUEENANNE
53
___-rock (music genre) : ALT
54
Land between Can. and Mex. : USA
55
Inits. at the start of a memo : FYI
56
"You ready?" : ALLSET
59
Drilling tool : AUGER
61
Hooded snake : KINGCOBRA
64
Thin pancake : CREPE
65
Place for the banjo in "Oh! Susanna" : KNEE
66
Exposition : FAIR
67
N.B.A. star ___ Irving : KYRIE
68
Freezes, with "over" : ICES
69
Worry : FRET
Down
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Picnic pests : ANTS
2
State that produces the most corn : IOWA
3
Weather-related stoppage in baseball : RAINDELAY
4
Beach footwear : SANDALS
5
Tool building : SHED
6
Lipton offering : TEA
7
Genesis vessel : ARK
8
Word before congestion or spray : NASAL
9
Job that might involve watching the kids? : GOATHERD
10
Variety : ILK
11
French farewell : ADIEU
12
"Rats!" : NERTS
13
Use a stencil on : TRACE
18
Amorous cartoon skunk : PEPE
22
"No thanks" : ILLPASS
25
President after Nixon : FORD
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Like a sheep with all its wool : UNSHORN
27
Praiseful poem : ODE
28
Onetime Volvo competitor : SAAB
29
K, in the NATO alphabet : KILO
30
"According to conventional wisdom ..." : THEYSAY
35
Place to drink lined with TVs : SPORTSBAR
36
French "to be" : ETRE
37
"So long!" : TATA
39
Joy Adamson book about Elsa the lioness : BORNFREE
40
Fencing sword : EPEE
43
Coat and ___ : TIE
45
Decrease : FALLOFF
48
Soft mineral : TALC
49
Phony doc : QUACK
50
Unscrupulous moneylending : USURY
51
Rarin' to go : EAGER
52
Republican pol Haley from South Carolina : NIKKI
56
Gets 16-Across : AGES
57
Buffalo's lake : ERIE
58
Sour : TART
60
Prefix with dermis : EPI
62
"Monsters, ___" (2001 movie) : INC
63
Word before a maiden name : NEE

Answer summary:
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