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New York Times, Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Author:
Courtenay Crocker and Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Down : Milquetoast
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
26/23/20055/1/20071
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0010100
CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.491158%
Courtenay Crocker III
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JKQ} Spans: 1 Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzles. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Crocker. This is puzzle # 173 for Ms. Salomon. Tuesday freshness: 47%
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© 2007, The New York Times5/1/7 ( No. 20,993 )
Across
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Drink garnishes : ZESTS
6
Seizes : GRABS
11
"How about that?!" : GEE
14
Broadcast workers' org. : AFTRA
15
Lash of bygone westerns : LARUE
16
Former : OLD
17
Antic brother : GROUCHOMARX
19
Fish story : LIE
20
Stitched : SEWN
21
Raw resource : ORE
22
Pack, to a pack animal : BURDEN
24
Sticking one's nose in : MEDDLING
27
Canine line : ARF
28
Swan's mate, in myth : LEDA
29
Order in the court : ALLRISE
33
Brigitte's friends : AMIES
36
Seattle-to-Phoenix dir. : SSE
37
Sci-fi invaders : ETS
38
Title of this puzzle : BENDINGTHERULES
43
What Alabama cheerleaders say to "gimme" four times : ANA
44
Alley ___ : OOP
45
"Is there no ___ this?" : ENDTO
46
Speaks when one should stay out : BUTTSIN
49
Tidy up topside : SWAB
51
Inspiring sound : RAH
52
Like many Chas Addams characters : GHOULISH
56
Dinner table item on a string : TEABAG
59
'07, '08 and '09 : YRS
60
Onetime E.P.A. target : ALAR
62
Chinese dynasty : HAN
63
66
Non-Rx : OTC
67
Absurd : INANE
68
Coffee for bedtime : DECAF
69
Play for a fool : USE
70
Wild : FERAL
71
Clifford who co-wrote "Sweet Smell of Success" : ODETS
Down
1
Takes a sharp turn : ZAGS
2
Violinist Zimbalist : EFREM
3
Vermont ski town : STOWE
4
Rolled along : TRUNDLED
5
Animal pouch : SAC
6
Praise from a choir : GLORIA
7
Nagano noodles : RAMEN
8
Heavenly altar : ARA
9
Bedroom community, briefly : BURB
10
Like some relations : SEXUAL
11
Place to pick up valuable nuggets : GOLDFIELD
12
Peace Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
13
Heaven on earth : EDEN
18
Phone button : HOLD
23
School basics, initially? : RRR
25
Arnaz of '50s TV : DESI
26
Big cut : GASH
30
Author Harper : LEE
31
Leave in, in proofreading : STET
32
Petrol brand : ESSO
33
Quatrain rhyme scheme : ABAB
34
PC pop-up : MENU
35
Mesmerized : INATRANCE
36
Big inits. at Indy : STP
39
"___ certainly do not!" : NOI
40
1970s TV's "The ___ Show" : GONG
41
Down-to-earth : REAL
42
Without an agenda : UNBIASED
47
Check : TAB
48
Zhivago portrayer : SHARIF
49
Equine color : SORREL
50
Milquetoast : WUSS
53
"Laughing" scavenger : HYENA
54
Pizzeria order : SLICE
55
Tore into : HADAT
56
10 C-notes : THOU
57
Absorbs, as a loss : EATS
58
"The Match Game" host Rayburn : GENE
61
Makes calls : REFS
64
Alternative spelling: Abbr. : VAR
65
Tokyo, once : EDO

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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