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New York Times, Monday, March 2, 2009

Author:
Lynn Lempel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
4-Down : Annoying
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
10212/9/19793/19/20242
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
673172130
CircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
91.61331220%
Lynn Lempel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQ} This is puzzle # 39 for Ms. Lempel. Monday freshness: 69%
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P
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B
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© 2009, The New York Times3/2/9 ( No. 21,664 )
Across
1
Spooky : EERIE
6
Walk with heavy steps : TRAMP
11
College transcript no. : GPA
14
What a cowboy may use while saying "Giddyup!" : SPURS
15
Course to breeze through : EASYA
16
Brit. resource for wordsmiths : OED
17
Inspector Clouseau movie, with "The" : PINKPANTHER
19
Hi-fi supply : LPS
20
"If I Had a Hammer" singer Lopez : TRINI
21
Rye and whole wheat : BREADS
23
Invent, as a phrase : COIN
24
TV host Philbin : REGIS
27
Stats for sluggers : RBIS
29
Air that makes you go [cough, cough] : SMOG
30
Alert to danger : WARN
31
Martial arts actor Lee : BRUCE
32
Asian New Year : TET
33
Draped Delhi dress : SARI
34
Start a Web session : LOGON
35
Poet Gelett Burgess wrote that he never saw one : PURPLECOW
38
Bitterly pungent : ACRID
41
Gentle rise and fall of the voice : LILT
42
Ghost's cry : BOO
45
Plodding journeys : TREKS
46
Emperor who fiddled around? : NERO
47
Like the models in a swimsuit issue : SEXY
48
Pie à la ___ : MODE
49
Patients, to doctors : CASES
50
What you might catch a tiger by, in a saying : TAIL
51
Pull out : UPROOT
53
Antelope with a hump and twisted horns : ELAND
55
"How was ___ know?" : ITO
56
Lewis Carroll character who's late : WHITERABBIT
60
Politico ___ Paul : RON
61
Belly button : NAVEL
62
Public square : PLAZA
63
Unspecified amount : ANY
64
Take furtively : SNEAK
65
Rocker Bob with the Silver Bullet Band : SEGER
Down
1
Parapsychology subject, briefly : ESP
2
Perfect example : EPITOME
3
Go wild : RUNRIOT
4
Annoying : IRKING
5
Jock's channel : ESPN
6
Number of sides in a decagon : TEN
7
Squealer : RAT
8
Rubbish holder : ASHBIN
9
Fort ___, Fla. : MYERS
10
Cut, as expenses : PARE
11
Edgar Allan Poe story, with "The" : GOLDBUG
12
Its brands include Frito-Lay and Tropicana : PEPSICO
13
Commercials : ADS
18
Combat with fighter-bombers : AIRWAR
22
Symbol by the phrase "You are here" : ARROW
23
Chicago's winter hrs. : CST
25
O.K. Corral gunslinger : EARP
26
Decorative gratings : GRILLES
28
One of 100 on the Hill: Abbr. : SEN
31
Ink stain : BLOT
33
Soapy froth : SUDS
35
Cheapskate : PIKER
36
Yeats's homeland : EIRE
37
Ninth-inning relief pitcher : CLOSER
38
Source of PIN money? : ATM
39
Salad cube : CROUTON
40
John Steinbeck book, with "The" : REDPONY
42
Hacky Sack, basically : BEANBAG
43
Form rust, say : OXIDIZE
44
Popeye's Olive ___ : OYL
46
Indigenous : NATIVE
47
Sty : hogs :: ___ : horses : STABLE
49
George M. who composed "Over There" : COHAN
52
Holds the title to : OWNS
54
Swimmers' distances : LAPS
55
Money for the senior yrs. : IRA
57
Afternoon social : TEA
58
Antlered animal : ELK
59
Black goo : TAR

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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