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New York Times, Saturday, October 1, 2011

Author:
David Quarfoot
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
1-Down : "Step aside, I'll help"
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David Quarfoot

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 27 Missing: {FHQW} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. Quarfoot. Saturday freshness: 59%
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© 2011, The New York Times10/1/11 ( No. 22,607 )
Across
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Subject of search engine optimization : PAGERANK
9
Changing place : CABANA
15
It may involve the colon : EMOTICON
16
Investment option, informally : TNOTES
17
Right part of a map : REDSTATE
18
Portmanteau wear : SKORTS
19
Arsenal decommissioned in 2005 : MXS
20
"The Play About the Baby" playwright : ALBEE
22
Ease : ABATE
23
Volunteer's offer : ICAN
25
City of the Altiplano : LAPAZ
27
Abandon : JILT
28
Certain adjustments : TARES
30
Flying Dutchman captain of film : DAVYJONES
32
Fictional character whose first name is Kentaro : MRMOTO
34
One vertex of the Summer Triangle : DENEB
35
Big name in confectioneries : EDY
36
"Delightful!" : YUM
38
E-5: Abbr. : SGT
39
My country's follower? : TIS
42
Ignition trouble : ARSON
44
Library spot : ALCOVE
46
Way to see the big picture? : JUMBOTRON
50
Kind of card : INDEX
51
French singles : UNES
52
Foil alternative : SARAN
54
Spiced quaffs : NOGS
55
North Atlantic catch : SCROD
57
___-Obama Proliferation and Threat Reduction Initiative (2007 law) : LUGAR
59
Footnote abbr. : LOC
60
Rung : TOLLED
62
Time for Conan, informally : LATENITE
64
He played Mandela on TV's "Mandela" : GLOVER
65
Joins, redundantly : ENTERSIN
66
Movie genre named for a food staple : OATERS
67
Starbucks offering : SOYLATTE
Down
1
"Step aside, I'll help" : PERMITME
2
Bit of green in a wallet : AMEXCARD
3
Side in an epic battle : GODSARMY
4
Letters for college-bound students : ETS
5
Annual romance writer's award : RITA
6
Place ___ : ACALL
7
"I'm impressed!" : NOTBAD
8
Bit of in-line skating gear : KNEEPAD
9
Price abbr. : CTS
10
Canadian singer with three #1 Billboard hits : ANKA
11
Growing concern for a surgeon, informally? : BOOBJOB
12
Transportation to Sugar Hill, in a 1941 song : ATRAIN
13
Get to : NETTLE
14
They're positive : ASSETS
21
Collection sites, of a sort : EAVES
24
Romantic introduction? : NEO
26
Company behind the popular social network games FarmVille and CityVille : ZYNGA
29
Commercial prefix since the 1950s : STYRO
31
"Romeo Must Die" actor, 2000 : JETLI
33
Bounces : OUSTS
37
Good : MORAL
39
Where some write checks : TODOLIST
40
"Bingo!" : IVEGOTIT
41
Censor's target : SEXSCENE
42
Free : ABSOLVE
43
Anarchy : NORULES
45
Atlanta's ___ Center : CNN
46
Angry lover's dismissal : JUSTGO
47
Beverage nickname, with "the" : UNCOLA
48
Product of Bordeaux : MERLOT
49
Olympics site that introduced snowboarding : NAGANO
53
Smart : NATTY
56
Bucks and bucks : DEER
58
Casting need : REEL
61
Hospital grp. : DRS
63
Kind of card : NRA

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later.

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