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New York Times, Monday, December 1, 2008

Author:
Eric J. Platt
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
41-Down : Has thoughts
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Eric J. Platt

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {PQX} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Platt. Monday freshness: 79%
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© 2008, The New York Times12/1/8 ( No. 21,573 )
Across
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Actress Moorehead : AGNES
6
Trayful of cookies, e.g. : BATCH
11
J.F.K.'s successor : LBJ
14
Minimum : LEAST
15
One of the dancing Astaires : ADELE
16
Commitment to pay : IOU
17
The Divine Miss M : BETTEMIDLER
19
Balsam, e.g. : FIR
20
John Cougar Mellencamp's "R.O.C.K. in the ___" : USA
21
Baseball scores : RUNS
22
Hardly ever : RARELY
24
Actress Griffith : MELANIE
26
Leers at : OGLES
27
Birth mother's helper : NURSEMIDWIFE
31
"Git!" : SCRAM
34
Some jeans : LEES
35
Menagerie : ZOO
36
Came to the ground : ALIT
37
Jesse of the 1936 Olympics : OWENS
39
Jerome who composed "The Last Time I Saw Paris" : KERN
40
Rob on the street : MUG
41
___ the Terrible : IVAN
42
Waits patiently : BIDES
43
Connected on only one side, as a town house : SEMIDETACHED
47
Turn away : AVERT
48
Crew members : OARSMEN
52
Declaration ending "or else!" : THREAT
54
Rheumatism symptom : ACHE
55
Order at the Pig and Whistle : ALE
56
Court : WOO
57
Change abruptly, or what the insides of 17-, 27- and 43-Across do? : TURNONADIME
60
Shoemaker's tool : AWL
61
Poetic Muse : ERATO
62
Covered with ivy : VINED
63
"Get it?" : SEE
64
___ motion (start) : SETIN
65
Manicurist's tool : EMERY
Down
1
The Beatles' "Revolver" or "Help!" : ALBUM
2
Ones flying south for the winter : GEESE
3
Birth-related : NATAL
4
Paris's Gare de l'___ : EST
5
Chest part : STERNUM
6
The "B" of 11-Across : BAINES
7
Uses the "+" function : ADDS
8
Number on a bus. card : TEL
9
Religious groups : CLERGIES
10
Announces : HERALDS
11
Not reduced, as some illustrations : LIFESIZED
12
Bring to 212 degrees : BOIL
13
"12 angry men," e.g. : JURY
18
California's ___ Woods : MUIR
23
VCR button : REW
25
Study of the body: Abbr. : ANAT
26
Storm clouds, to some : OMEN
28
"Maria ___," 1941 #1 hit : ELENA
29
Golf cry : FORE
30
Long times : EONS
31
___ Club (discount store) : SAMS
32
Game with Colonel Mustard and Mrs. Peacock : CLUE
33
Complex procedure : RIGMAROLE
37
Famous part of Rossini's "William Tell" : OVERTURE
38
Power unit : WATT
39
Baby goats : KIDS
41
Has thoughts : IDEATES
42
Deprive (of) : BEREAVE
44
"___ Got a Secret" : IVE
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Thing from which a butterfly emerges : COCOON
46
Chemistry Nobelist Otto : HAHN
49
Portland's home : MAINE
50
"___ Gantry" : ELMER
51
Impoverished : NEEDY
52
"___ the night before Christmas ..." : TWAS
53
Hockey great Gordie : HOWE
54
Not pro : ANTI
58
Mouse's big cousin : RAT
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Barely shining : DIM

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

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