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New York Times, Saturday, April 1, 2006

Author:
Kevan Choset and David Kwong
Editor:
Will Shortz
55-Down : "___ the bag!"
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
279/30/200312/29/20163
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
521.538438%
Kevan Choset
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234/1/20064/18/20245
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4234721
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.5910446%
David Kwong

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Choset. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Kwong. Saturday freshness: 3%
Jim Horne notes:

The secret to solving this puzzle is to THINK outside the box. Write that word outside each corner and it all makes sense. See answers below.

An interesting counterpart was published a few weeks earlier.

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© 2006, The New York Times4/1/6 ( No. 20,598 )
Across
1
Request made while pointing at a display case : THOSE
5
Little bit : TAD
8
Kind of patch : IRONON
14
Ups : HIKES
15
#4, once, in Boston : ORR
16
Appear that way : SEEMTO
17
Ltrs. may be written in them : ITALS
18
One of 100 positions : SENATESEAT
20
What some of the letters in this puzzle seemingly have : NOPLACETOGO
22
Link : KNIT
23
Sound at a spa : AAH
24
Sound : LOGICAL
30
Zoom : SOAR
32
Nickname for young Skywalker : ANI
34
Words of concurrence : ASAMI
35
An old Warner Bros. production? : CEL
37
Carried away : ENAMORED
39
How you have to think to solve this puzzle : OUTSIDETHEBOX
42
Volunteered : ENLISTED
43
Sleeveless Arab garment : ABA
44
Go this way and that : WEAVE
45
Where Billy the Kid was born, believe it or not: Abbr. : NYC
47
River that rises in Monte Falterona : ARNO
50
Argentine writer ___ Sábato : ERNESTO
52
It's well-regulated : OIL
54
Drop : OMIT
56
Spills out, in the Bible : OVERFLOWETH
59
Universal competitor : DREAMWORKS
64
Language from which shawl and divan come : FARSI
65
Astronaut Collins : EILEEN
66
Start of an apology : MEA
67
Not stick out : FITIN
68
Feedback : ECHOES
69
Suffix with planet : ARY
70
Performed terribly, slangily : STANK
Down
1
Try to pick up : HITON
2
Striped animals : OKAPIS
3
Do business with : SELLTO
4
She, in Venice : ESSA
5
Words repeated at the start of the "Sailor's Song" : TOSEA
6
Hit 1986-87 R & B album : ARETHA
7
Movie with the opening line "I admire your courage, Miss ...?" : DRNO
8
Reply in a juvenile spat : ISTOO
9
Elder, e.g. : TREE
10
Row makers : HOES
11
"Trust ___" (1937 hit) : INME
12
Do, re or mi, in Italy : NOTA
13
Tough problem : KNOT
19
Sparkling : AGLINT
21
Nice brushes : CARESSES
25
Super Bowl souvenir : GAMEBALL
26
Map line : ISOBAR
27
Robert who wrote "The Power Broker" : CARO
28
Kind of card : AMEX
29
Coffee-to-go necessity : LID
31
In eruption : ACTIVE
33
Disadvantaged : NEEDY
36
Bombed : LIT
38
Opposite of "duh!" : AHA
39
Humdinger : ONER
40
___-Ude, Mongolia : ULAN
41
Afresh : DENOVO
42
Milk source : EWE
46
Really good one : CORKER
48
"Hold on!" : NOWAIT
49
Mario Puzo best seller : OMERTA
51
Dots on a map : TOWNS
53
"Suppose ..." : IFSAY
55
"___ the bag!" : ITSIN
57
First name in humor : ERMA
58
Whacks : OFFS
59
Insect repellent ingredient : DEET
60
Delicious but fattening : RICH
61
Precollege : ELHI
62
Ages and ages : AEON
63
Deferential : MEEK

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle.

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