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New York Times, Friday, November 30, 2012

Author:
Gary Cee
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
5-Down : Chickenhearted
TotalDebutLatest
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21.5616336%
Gary Cee

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJQUXZ} Spans: 6 This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Cee. Friday freshness: 3%
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© 2012, The New York Times11/30/12 ( No. 23,033 )
Across
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See 5-Across : ROSE
5
With 1-Across, hybrid tea's ancestor : CHINA
10
Noxious compounds, briefly : PCBS
14
"Wir leben Autos" sloganeer : OPEL
15
Kind of cortex : RENAL
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Detrained, e.g. : ALIT
17
"Turn me on, dead man," supposedly, in the Beatles' "Revolution 9" : BACKWARDMESSAGE
20
Go off : ERR
21
Next-to-last word in the Lord's Prayer : EVER
22
Like sherpas : ASIAN
23
Nicks producing cuts? : STEVIE
25
Early psychoanalyst Coriat : ISADOR
28
Coastal diver : TERN
29
Flirt, maybe : BATANEYE
32
Morsel for a ladybug : APHID
34
"There ___ spoon" ("The Matrix" line) : ISNO
35
Apology start : MEA
36
Subject of a 2007 YouTube sensation : PIANOPLAYINGCAT
40
Many a beneficiary : SON
41
Longtime "Headlines" reader : LENO
42
Helpers after crashes : TECHS
43
One way to watch movies : ONDEMAND
46
Olin of "Havana" : LENA
47
On the schedule : SLATED
48
Bundled, say : ASASET
51
Enlightened Buddhist : ARHAT
53
Need to keep one's place? : RENT
55
Mauna ___ : KEA
56
Go nowhere : BEATASTANDSTILL
60
Become clumped : CAKE
61
Ivy's support, maybe : ARBOR
62
How a ship might turn : ALEE
63
Olympic vehicle : SLED
64
Like rats' nests : MESSY
65
Intrigue, once, informally : OLDS
Down
1
Bench attire : ROBES
2
Some deceptive designs : OPART
3
Order confirmation? : SECRETHANDSHAKE
4
Rotarian relative : ELK
5
Chickenhearted : CRAVEN
6
On hand : HERE
7
Little by little : INDRIBSANDDRABS
8
Many vets recall it : NAM
9
Bitter, e.g. : ALE
10
Relay : PASSON
11
Missouri's first elected female senator : CLAIREMCCASKILL
12
N.Y.C. racetrack moniker : BIGA
13
Antique gun : STEN
18
Eccentric : WEIRDO
19
Actress Thompson : SADA
24
Course through the body? : VEIN
26
Panasonic subsidiary : SANYO
27
Yours, in Paris : ATOI
30
"Hot dog!" : YEAH
31
Hot dogs, say : EATS
32
Tail of a dog? : APSO
33
Zero-spin particle : PION
34
"The L Word" producer Chaiken : ILENE
37
Realty reference : PLAT
38
Big blasts from the past, briefly : NTESTS
39
Actress Rowlands : GENA
44
Opposite of down : ELATED
45
___ Hari : MATA
46
Hall-of-Fame football coach Tom : LANDRY
49
Sniggled : EELED
50
Accounts : TALES
51
Nuts and bolts : ABCS
52
Not fantastic : REAL
54
1961 space chimp : ENOS
57
Friend of Frodo : SAM
58
Cinque minus due : TRE
59
Way overseas : TAO

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5 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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