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New York Times, Thursday, October 18, 2007

Author:
Lucy Gardner Anderson
Editor:
Will Shortz
52-Down : Spruce (up)
TotalDebutLatest
49/7/200610/14/2008
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CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.571326%
Lucy Gardner Anderson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Anderson. Thursday freshness: 10%
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A
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K
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V
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© 2007, The New York Times10/18/7 ( No. 21,163 )
Across
1
Lady abroad : FRAU
5
With 50-Down, steak go-with : BAKED
10
With 68-Across, fish filet go-with : COLE
14
Wedding parties?: Abbr. : REVS
15
Water, for one : OXIDE
16
Tel ___ : AVIV
17
Psyche components : EGOS
18
Fix, as a hitch : RETIE
19
Unnerve : FAZE
20
"Yep" negator : NAW
21
Behind closed doors : INSECRET
23
Drug-free : CLEAN
25
Well-founded : TENABLE
29
He-man : HERCULES
33
With 44-Across, hot sandwich go-with : ONION
34
Like waves on a shoreline : EROSIVE
37
It's on the St. Lawrence River: Abbr. : ONT
38
Hilarious ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme : SIDESPLITTING
42
Brown, in ads : UPS
43
Passed : ENACTED
44
See 33-Across : RINGS
47
Closed tight : SEALEDUP
51
White-knuckle : INTENSE
54
Make a ship stop by facing the wind : LAYTO
55
Newscast lead : TOPSTORY
59
Drift ___ : NET
60
Airline rarity, nowadays : MEAL
63
"May ___ your order?" : ITAKE
64
Bob Dylan's first wife and the title of a song about her : SARA
65
Makeover : REDO
66
Stinky : FETID
67
Dirty magazines and such : SMUT
68
See 10-Across : SLAW
69
See 1-Down : FRIES
70
Neither good nor bad : SOSO
Down
1
With 69-Across, burger go-with : FRENCH
2
Treat splendidly : REGALE
3
One saying "I do" : AVOWER
4
Letters before Liberty or Constitution : USS
5
Sprung (from) : BORN
6
x, y and z : AXES
7
Toy sometimes seen on a beach : KITE
8
Order : EDICT
9
Big name in balers : DEERE
10
Unisex dress : CAFTAN
11
Female gametes : OVA
12
1995 showbiz biography by C. David Heymann : LIZ
13
December 31, e.g. : EVE
21
Harden : INURE
22
Musician Brian : ENO
24
Breezed through : ACED
26
One of a series of joint Soviet/U.S. space satellites : BION
27
Dragged out : LONG
28
Suffix with absorb : ENT
30
Shake, in a way : LOSE
31
Cable inits. since 1979 : ESPN
32
Albino in "The Da Vinci Code" : SILAS
35
Police target : VICE
36
Jazzy James : ETTA
38
Something to take in a car : SPIN
39
Fred Astaire's "___ This a Lovely Day" : ISNT
40
The Beeb is seen on it : TELLY
41
"The very ___!" : IDEA
42
The Rams of the Atlantic 10 Conf. : URI
45
2003 #2 hit for Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz : GETLOW
46
___-Cat : SNO
48
Go-getter : DYNAMO
49
Womb : UTERUS
50
See 5-Across : POTATO
52
Spruce (up) : SPIFF
53
Perfume ingredient : ESTER
56
1955 Oscar nominee for "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" : TATI
57
Tex's neighbor to the north : OKIE
58
Some wines : REDS
60
Partner, informally, with "the" : MRS
61
Underwater cave dweller : EEL
62
Oral health org. : ADA
64
Draft org. : SSS

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

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