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New York Times, Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Author:
Joey Weissbrot
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
28-Down : Paul Revere and others
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Joey Weissbrot

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQW} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Weissbrot. Wednesday freshness: 16%
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© 2009, The New York Times4/8/9 ( No. 21,701 )
Across
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Venetian who explored for England in the 15th century : CABOT
6
Paints gently : DABS
10
Mattress filler during a recession, maybe : CASH
14
Last Oldsmobile car : ALERO
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Palindromic magazine name : ELLE
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"A pity" : ALAS
17
Tailless Old World mammal : LORIS
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Land of the descendants of 67-Across : EDOM
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"Step right up!" : NEXT
20
An Olympic swimmer needs a big one : LUNGCAPACITY
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50+ org. : AARP
24
Royal family : HOUSE
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Less than 1% : SKIM
31
It may be over a window : CURTAINROD
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Tricks : MAGIC
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Not so common : RARER
38
The Greatest : ALI
39
Son of, in Arab names : IBN
40
Akihito's wife, e.g. : EMPRESS
42
Rebelling Turner : NAT
43
___ pooped to pop : TOO
44
Shire of "Rocky" : TALIA
45
Treaty signing : TRUCE
47
Sound practical judgment : HORSESENSE
50
After 2004, the only way to buy a 14-Across : USED
51
Slander : SMEAR
52
Modern way to put out an album : ONCD
54
Fateful event for the Titanic : MAIDENVOYAGE
61
Diamond group : UMPS
64
Runner in Pamplona : TORO
65
Like spoken n's : NASAL
66
It turns a hundred into a thousand : ZERO
67
Jacob's twin : ESAU
68
Makes like the Cheshire Cat : GRINS
69
Element that can precede the starts of 20-, 31-, 47- and 54-Across : IRON
70
Where the crew chows down : MESS
71
"Poor Richard's Almanack" bit : ADAGE
Down
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Give a ring : CALL
2
Baseball's Felipe or Jesus : ALOU
3
Capital of Switzerland : BERN
4
Art form that commonly depicts a swan : ORIGAMI
5
Puccini opera : TOSCA
6
Group with the 1968 hit "Hush" : DEEPPURPLE
7
2006 Emmy winner for "The West Wing" : ALDA
8
Congressional Black Caucus, e.g. : BLOC
9
Rest stop sight : SEMI
10
Echo location : CANYON
11
Stout, e.g. : ALE
12
"Harlem Nocturne" instrument : SAX
13
1940s-'50s White House inits. : HST
21
Part of a circle : ARC
22
Common companion of a dry throat : THIRST
25
Astronomical discovery of 1781 : URANUS
26
Grief relief : SOLACE
27
Ready to be typeset : EDITED
28
Paul Revere and others : SMITHS
29
Big bang : KABOOM
30
Turn a deaf ear to : IGNORE
32
___ to go : RARIN
33
Spying against one's own country, say : TREASONOUS
34
He ran to succeed 13-Down: Abbr. : AES
36
Et ___ : CETERA
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More, on Mallorca : MAS
46
Author Kipling : RUDYARD
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Biblical strongman : SAMSON
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Part of S.A.S.E.: Abbr. : ENV
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Line dance : CONGA
55
Hot pair : ITEM
56
A teaspoonful, maybe : DOSE
57
Reconstruction and the Roaring Twenties : ERAS
58
Indian's home : ASIA
59
Club familiars : GANG
60
End of a warning : ELSE
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Gun produced by Israel Military Industries : UZI
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La Méditerranée, e.g. : MER
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Whiz : PRO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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