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New York Times, Friday, November 16, 2007

Author:
Chuck Deodene
Editor:
Will Shortz
7-Down : Cutting out?
TotalDebutLatest
4211/16/19942/26/2021
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
02398128
CircleScrabDebutFresh
31.5824265%
Chuck Deodene

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JVWZ} This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. Deodene. Friday freshness: 52%
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© 2007, The New York Times11/16/7 ( No. 21,192 )
Across
1
Back-and-forth : QANDA
6
One at the helm : STEERSMAN
15
"___ directed" : USEAS
16
Product identifier : TRADENAME
17
Apple storage devices : IPODS
18
It maintains a proper attitude : AUTOPILOT
19
"Western Star" poet : BENET
20
Mount ___, sacred Chinese site : TAI
21
Sunder : PART
22
Source of support : BRA
23
Fragrant : SCENTED
27
Bbl. fraction : GAL
28
___ rock (radio format) : LITE
30
Bills are in it: Abbr. : AFC
31
Deal-killing words : NOSALE
33
Bibliographical abbr. : ETAL
34
Venue of many Richard Petty wins : DAYTONA
36
First-class handouts? : SYLLABI
38
Herd-thinning menace : RUSTLER
42
Semirural, say : EXURBAN
44
Time magazine Person of the Year, 2005 : BONO
45
One working on a board : IRONER
48
Party in Pretoria: Abbr. : ANC
49
Poses in a studio? : YOGA
50
Photographer Goldin : NAN
51
Town on the Long Island Rail Road : SYOSSET
54
Sprout : KID
55
Channel blocker : SILT
57
Letters before a street name : AKA
58
"I'll give you ___ ..." : AHINT
60
Colloquial : IDIOMATIC
63
Newswoman Poussaint : RENEE
64
Logic's counterpart : SENTIMENT
65
Rich spreads : PATES
66
Trunk accumulation : TREERINGS
67
Common dog name : SPORT
Down
1
Nitpicking : QUIBBLES
2
Harshness : ASPERITY
3
Relating to babes : NEONATAL
4
___ City, seat of Pasco County, Fla. : DADE
5
Right hands: Abbr. : ASSTS
6
1945 film musical with the song "It Might As Well Be Spring" : STATEFAIR
7
Cutting out? : TRUANCY
8
Suffer a loss, slangily : EATIT
9
Shogunate capital : EDO
10
Mouthpiece : REP
11
Scissor : SNIP
12
Costa del Sol port : MALAGA
13
Unprincipled : AMORAL
14
Green stinger : NETTLE
24
Creme Egg maker : CADBURY
25
Proclaim : ENOUNCE
26
Underbosses' bosses : DONS
29
1990s sitcom : ELLEN
32
Didn't get involved : SATBY
35
Does, as business : TRANSACTS
37
Choppers : AXES
39
Probe : LOOKINTO
40
Bring about with some effort : ENGINEER
41
Cavalier evaluation? : ROADTEST
43
On the sundeck : BASKING
45
Not yield : INSIST
46
Corporate shark : RAIDER
47
Seeing the sites : ONLINE
52
Like muesli : OATEN
53
Diamond protectors : TARPS
56
Lug : TOTE
59
Jalopy : HEAP
61
It was deorbited in 2001 : MIR
62
"Bel-___" (Maupassant novel) : AMI

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

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