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New York Times, Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Author:
Tracy Gray
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
10-Down : Scenic view
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871.6222850%
Tracy Gray

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {KQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Gray. Wednesday freshness: 9%
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B
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L
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© 2010, The New York Times11/3/10 ( No. 22,275 )
Across
1
The two together : BOTH
5
In fighting trim : FIT
8
Sparks's state : NEVADA
14
Quick as a wink : INNOTIME
16
For all, as a restroom : UNISEX
17
Online university staff? : NETPROFS
18
Trig function : COSINE
19
Anthem contraction : OER
20
Phone no. : TEL
22
Body designs, informally : TATS
23
What Nashville sunbathers acquire? : TENNESSEETANS
27
One to hang with : PAL
28
Special attention, for short : TLC
29
Golf ball's position : LIE
30
"Not on ___!" : ABET
32
Hasty escape : LAM
34
Ballplayer with a 40-Down logo : ASTRO
39
Sign prohibiting sunshades? : NOVISORSALLOWED
43
At attention : ERECT
44
Sgt. or cpl. : NCO
45
Like many fast-food orders : TOGO
46
Bailed-out insurance co. : AIG
49
Local govt. unit : TWP
51
Make public : AIR
52
Salon jobs from apprentice stylists? : LEARNERSPERMS
57
Zinging remark : BARB
58
Coffee, slangily : JOE
59
Nest egg letters : IRA
60
Where to find a piece of Turkey : EUROPE
62
"Stop that!" ... and a hint to the answers to 17-, 23-, 39- and 52-Across : CUTITOUT
67
Chips away at : ERODES
68
Seinfeld's eccentric relative : UNCLELEO
69
Many a Little League rooter : PARENT
70
"Go team!" : RAH
71
Sunbathers catch them : RAYS
Down
1
Coal holder : BIN
2
Indivisible : ONE
3
Demolitionist's aid : TNT
4
Biker's invitation to a friend : HOPON
5
Former Big Apple mayor La Guardia : FIORELLO
6
Global currency org. : IMF
7
Lab jobs : TESTS
8
Atomic centers : NUCLEI
9
Brian of ambient music : ENO
10
Scenic view : VISTA
11
Like most Turks : ASIAN
12
Body shop jobs : DENTS
13
Graph lines : AXES
15
1545-63 council site : TRENT
21
Moray, e.g. : EEL
23
Drum accompanying a fife : TABOR
24
École attendee : ELEVE
25
Emotionally damage : SCAR
26
Blue-green hue : TEAL
27
Plexiglas piece : PANE
31
Muscle spasm : TIC
33
AOL alternative : MSN
35
W. C. Fields persona : SOT
36
Bar closing time, perhaps : TWOAM
37
Philbin of live TV : REGIS
38
"P.U.!" inducer : ODOR
40
See 34-Across : STAR
41
"Hamlet" has five : ACTS
42
Fastball in the dirt, say : LOWPITCH
47
Kiddingly : INJEST
48
Prefix with thermal : GEO
50
Jeopardy : PERIL
52
Michelle's predecessor as first lady : LAURA
53
Goof : ERROR
54
"Humble" home : ABODE
55
Come back : RECUR
56
Zagat, to restaurants : RATER
57
Microwave sound : BEEP
61
Porker's pad : PEN
63
Old-time actress Merkel : UNA
64
Suffix with pay or plug : OLA
65
Driver's one-eighty : UEY
66
How-___ (handy books) : TOS

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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