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New York Times, Thursday, November 2, 2006

Author:
John Farmer
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Down : Says too much, inadvertently
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John Farmer

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {Q} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Farmer. Thursday freshness: 43%
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© 2006, The New York Times11/2/6 ( No. 20,813 )
Across
1
Pre-calc class : TRIG
5
Green basil sauce : PESTO
10
Dandy fellows : FOPS
14
Old VCR format : BETA
15
Paid in some chips : ANTED
16
Peek follower : ABOO
17
Partner of "out" : OVER
18
Wahlberg/Theron caper film, with "The" : ITALIANJOB
20
Step One: For every answer in this crossword, count this : NUMBEROFLETTERS
22
Brand of printers : EPSON
23
Design deg. : MFA
24
Muesli bit : OAT
25
Okla. rival : NEB
27
Casbah cap : FEZ
29
Pointer, e.g. : DOG
32
Surge of new arrivals : INFLUX
36
Important : BIG
37
Mural's locale : WALL
38
Step Two: Take the figure you get for Step One and do this : MULTIPLYBYTHREE
41
Footnote abbr. : IBID
42
A foot wide? : EEE
43
Ex-Bears great Walter : PAYTON
44
Cook's meas. : TSP
45
Pilot's fig. : ALT
46
Fifth qtrs. : OTS
47
Rm. coolers : ACS
49
Tax form ID : SSN
51
Cookout offering : KABOB
56
Step Three: Your Step Two result is the letter count for ...! : EACHANSWERSCLUE
60
It makes a cobbler's work truly shine : SHOEPOLISH
61
SAT component : MATH
62
"In your dreams!" : ASIF
63
Actor Sal of "Giant" : MINEO
64
Pound of verse : EZRA
65
Saturn models : IONS
66
Glasses, slangily : SPECS
67
Crystal gazer : SEER
Down
1
Steakhouse order : TBONE
2
Hasten the pace of : REVUP
3
Tabloid twosomes : ITEMS
4
Star of "Ninotchka" : GARBO
5
Poker holding : PAIR
6
Put away, crypt-ically? : ENTOMB
7
Sheet music lines : STAFF
8
Stretch the truth, so to speak : TELLAFIB
9
"Garfield" foil : ODIE
10
Orange soda brand : FANTA
11
Small item in an antique shop, say : OBJETDART
12
Hardscrabble : POOR
13
Lamentations : SOBS
19
Full spectrum : ATOZ
21
Listless feeling : ENNUI
26
Drive out by force : EXPEL
28
Nefertiti's realm : EGYPT
30
Blue Bonnet, e.g. : OLEO
31
Secluded spot : GLEN
32
Spurious: Abbr. : IMIT
33
Central parts : NUBS
34
Decide by calling heads or tails : FLIPACOIN
35
Inc., abroad : LTD
36
"Bon voyage!" : BYE
37
Kid's query : WHY
39
Says too much, inadvertently : LETSSLIP
40
To-do list entries : TASKS
45
Quick request? : ASAP
46
"I'll be there in a jiffy!" : ONESEC
48
Wearers of aprons : CHEFS
50
Denizens of sties : SWINE
52
Ultimate heights : ACMES
53
Three-alarm event : BLAZE
54
Beyond the fringe : OUTRE
55
Joy of the morning? : BEHAR
56
Actor Morales : ESAI
57
"I get it," jokily : AHSO
58
Jules et Jim, e.g. : NOMS
59
P's, to Pericles : RHOS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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