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New York Times, Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Author:
Victor Fleming
Editor:
Will Shortz
31-Down : Chinatown gang
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Victor Fleming

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 3 Minimum word length: 4 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 16 for Mr. Fleming. Tuesday freshness: 92%
Victor Fleming notes:

This crossword combines my favorite sport with the gimmick of having multiple theme answers clued identically. Under letter dated Aug. 27, 2007, I pitched this puzzle to Will as a Wednesday; thus, it's not surprising that few of my original clues were used. My proposed theme clues involved cross-referencing, so that each theme answer clued the others.

I liked the edited version so much better that, in the ensuing months, I did three more puzzles with a similar approach — see 8/13/2008, 9/25/2008, & 9/30/2010. See also 1/28/2007, a Sunday in which Bruce Venzke and I did essentially the same thing, with adjustments for singular and plural pronouns.

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© 2008, The New York Times2/19/8 ( No. 21,287 )
Across
1
Puppies' plaints : YIPS
5
Cobb of "12 Angry Men" : LEEJ
9
Icy look : GLARE
14
Oratorio highlight : ARIA
15
Di or da preceder in a Beatles song : OBLA
16
Moves like sludge : OOZES
17
"What ___ Did" (classic children's book with a punny title) : KATY
18
___ Spee (old German warship) : GRAF
19
Catcher's position : SQUAT
20
Enjoying an outing, of sorts : ONTHEGOLFCOURSE
23
"Gets the red out" sloganeer : VISINE
24
Italian auto, for short : ALFA
25
Scientology founder ___ Hubbard : LRON
28
For no profit : ATCOST
32
Sister of Marge Simpson : SELMA
36
Forsaken : LORN
38
Get ___ the habit : INTO
39
Enjoying an outing, of sorts : PLAYINGEIGHTEEN
42
Homecoming figure, for short : ALUM
43
Yin's counterpart : YANG
44
Checking out : EYING
45
Michelin offering : RADIAL
47
Flagston family pet : DAWG
49
Gin flavoring : SLOE
51
Edit : REVISE
56
Enjoying an outing, of sorts : HITTINGTHELINKS
61
Like wild tigers : ASIAN
62
Drought relief : RAIN
63
Hi Flagston's wife, in the comics : LOIS
64
Garden plant support : STAKE
65
One hired by a corp. board : EXEC
66
McCann of country music : LILA
67
Cheated, slangily : HOSED
68
One of "The Addams Family," informally : TISH
69
Comrade in arms : ALLY
Down
1
Comic Smirnoff : YAKOV
2
Tehran denizen : IRANI
3
Actress ZaSu : PITTS
4
Greet cordially : SAYHI
5
Paul Bunyan, e.g. : LOGGER
6
River of Spain : EBRO
7
Mideast airline : ELAL
8
Port of Israel : JAFFA
9
Treat leniently, with "on" : GOSOFT
10
Talkativeness : LOQUACITY
11
France's Côte d'___ : AZUR
12
Actor Stephen and kin : REAS
13
Renaissance family name : ESTE
21
China's Zhou ___ : ENLAI
22
Trolley sound : CLANG
26
Gymnast Korbut : OLGA
27
Ad infinitum : NOEND
29
"The ___ Love" (R.E.M. hit) : ONEI
30
British W.W. II-era gun : STEN
31
Chinatown gang : TONG
32
Exchange jabs : SPAR
33
Former Connecticut governor Grasso : ELLA
34
Speak well of : LAUD
35
"I can't blame anyone else" : MYMISTAKE
37
Latvia's capital : RIGA
40
Fishing line material : NYLON
41
Georg who wrote "The Philosophy of Right" : HEGEL
46
Trued up : ALINED
48
Twist badly : WRENCH
50
Everglades wader : EGRET
52
Home overlooking the sea, maybe : VILLA
53
How some tuna is packed : INOIL
54
Dexterity : SKILL
55
Lamb or Bacon piece : ESSAY
56
___ browns (diner fare) : HASH
57
Analogy part : ISTO
58
Havana aunts : TIAS
59
Kind of stand : TAXI
60
Doesn't dally : HIES

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

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