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New York Times, Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Author:
Kyle Dolan
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
22-Down : Training montages, underdog victories, etc., in sports movies
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Kyle T. Dolan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Dolan. Wednesday freshness: 18%
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© 2017, The New York Times2/22/17 ( No. 24,578 )
Across
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Actress and former mixed martial arts champion Carano : GINA
5
Provocative remark : BARB
9
Seat at a hootenanny : BALE
13
Go crazy for : ADORE
15
Part of an order for eggs : OVER
16
Operating system with many clones : UNIX
17
... SLID SAID SAND SANE SINE NINE ... : SLIMTONONE
19
It may help you get up : STEP
20
"... shall not ___ from the earth": Gettysburg Address : PERISH
21
Call from a counter : NEXT
23
Words often spoken with a hand on the Bible : IDO
24
Visually assessed : EYED
26
Show created by Lena Dunham : GIRLS
28
Where Matt Damon was stranded in a 2015 film : MARS
31
... DOTE DOLE DOLL DELL SELL ... : NOTETOSELF
35
Archaeologist's estimate : AGE
36
Many a chamber piece : TRIO
37
Person at a desk : PUPIL
38
What an insider might offer : TIP
39
Impulse transmission point : SYNAPSE
42
"You've said quite enough!," informally : TMI
43
Something a cellphone can replace : CLOCK
45
6-3, 2-6, 7-6 and others : SETS
46
Part of many Arabic names : IBN
47
... HERD HEAD HEAT SEAT STAT ... : HERETOSTAY
50
Macbeth, e.g. : SCOT
51
Puccini title heroine : TOSCA
52
Heidi of "Project Runway" : KLUM
54
___ department : REC
56
Growth in an underwater "forest" : KELP
58
Things handed down by kings : EDICTS
62
Man exiled from 55-Down : ADAM
64
... OMEN OPEN OPED SPED SHED SHAD SHAM WHAM WHAT ... : AMENTOTHAT
66
Home (in on) : ZERO
67
Lymph ___ : NODE
68
"Sweet!," old-style : NEATO
69
Wraps up : ENDS
70
Fit of pique : SNIT
71
Erupt : SPEW
Down
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[OMG!] : GASP
2
Not in use : IDLE
3
Genre for the novelist Patricia Highsmith : NOIR
4
Hordes : ARMIES
5
What's always good in Grenoble? : BON
6
Publisher of the old All-True Detective Cases comic books : AVON
7
Fail on a promise : RENEGE
8
Portmanteau in 2016 world news : BREXIT
9
Greyhound runner? : BUS
10
Common bandage additive : ANTISEPTIC
11
Told a tale : LIED
12
Event at a convention center : EXPO
14
Online market for crafts : ETSY
18
Annual writing award : OHENRY
22
Training montages, underdog victories, etc., in sports movies : TROPES
25
Bump off : DOIN
27
The Tigers of the S.E.C. : LSU
28
6-3, 2-6, 7-6, e.g. : MATCH
29
Nimble : AGILE
30
Progress indicator, of a sort : REPORTCARD
32
Wedding dinner speech, often : TOAST
33
Gray area : LIMBO
34
Camper's tool : FLINT
36
"For shame!" : TSKTSK
40
Pinnacle : PEAK
41
Engraver's instrument : STYLET
44
Board hiree, for short : CEO
48
Geographical quintet : OCEANS
49
Catch for a grizzly : SALMON
50
Hits hard : SMITES
53
Japanese noodles : UDON
54
Demolish : RAZE
55
See 62-Across : EDEN
57
Spa treatment, informally : PEDI
59
Bloke : CHAP
60
Museum near Westminster Abbey : TATE
61
Put away : STOW
63
Rapper ___ Def : MOS
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Lepidopterist's aid : NET

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

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