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New York Times, Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Author:
Barry Boone
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
10-Down : Congo's name before 1997
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Barry Boone

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FQ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Boone. Tuesday freshness: 54%
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© 2009, The New York Times4/14/9 ( No. 21,707 )
Across
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Go 50 in a 30-m.p.h. zone, e.g. : SPEED
6
Joyful tune : LILT
10
Enthusiasm : ZEAL
14
Similar : ALIKE
15
"Are you ___ out?" : INOR
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Utah ski resort : ALTA
17
1985 Glenn Close/Jeff Bridges thriller : JAGGEDEDGE
19
Saint Barthélemy et d'autres : ILES
20
German's "Dear me!" : ACH
21
Mail service made obsolete by the transcontinental telegraph : PONYEXPRESS
23
Fish stew containers : KETTLES
25
Slowly, in music : LENTO
26
Most Little Leaguers : BOYS
27
Hay unit : BALE
30
Hardly a little angel : BRAT
32
Simple swimming stroke : DOGPADDLE
37
In a Kinks hit s/he "walked like a woman and talked like a man" : LOLA
38
Waiters' handouts : MENUS
39
Mob scene : RIOT
40
Widening in a highway, maybe : TOLLPLAZA
42
Lenin's "What ___ Be Done?" : ISTO
43
River of Spain : EBRO
44
Eisenhower and Turner : IKES
46
"When You Wish Upon ___" : ASTAR
50
Groveled : ATEDIRT
53
1970s Robert Young TV role : MARCUSWELBY
57
"Gloria in excelsis ___" : DEO
58
Farm team : OXEN
59
What the long Across answers with circles have : HIDDENGEMS
61
Go here and there : ROVE
62
Actress Hathaway : ANNE
63
"Evil ___" (comics series) : ERNIE
64
Oklahoma city : ENID
65
Bat, ball, glove, etc. : GEAR
66
Number of hills in Roma : SETTE
Down
1
Pat of "Wheel of Fortune" : SAJAK
2
Come in second : PLACE
3
It's last to be sunk : EIGHTBALL
4
Heart test readout: Abbr. : EKG
5
Very much : DEEPLY
6
Property claims : LIENS
7
Four-time Harrison Ford film role : INDY
8
Second-level seating : LOGE
9
Fearsome display at a natural history museum : TREX
10
Congo's name before 1997 : ZAIRE
11
TV's DeGeneres : ELLEN
12
Mushroom producer, for short : ATEST
13
Rodeo rope : LASSO
18
Bucks' partners : DOES
22
Appeal : PLEA
24
General Mills brand : TOTAL
27
"Bedtime for ___" (Reagan film) : BONZO
28
Contents of the Spanish Main : AGUA
29
8-track alternatives : LPS
30
Deli sandwich, for short : BLT
31
Kanga's baby : ROO
32
Honeybunch : DEAR
33
Like raisins vis-à-vis grapes : DRIED
34
Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet era, e.g. : DISSIDENT
35
Film studio locale : LOT
36
W.W. II command : ETO
38
World Series org. : MLB
41
Where Simón Bolívar was once president : PERU
44
The Beatles' "Let ___" : ITBE
45
Economist John Maynard ___ : KEYNES
46
Love, Italian-style : AMORE
47
The "S" in WASP : SAXON
48
Rome's ___ Fountain : TREVI
49
Pimply : ACNED
50
Tree with catkins : ALDER
51
Send, as payment : REMIT
52
"We're off ___ the Wizard ..." : TOSEE
54
Catch and throw back, as fly balls : SHAG
55
Burgundy or Bordeaux : WINE
56
"The Simpsons" teacher who was called Mrs. K : EDNA
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Test for Ph.D. wannabes : GRE

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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