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New York Times, Monday, May 13, 2013

Author:
Allan E. Parrish
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
11-Down : Like animals in a 42-Across
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Allan E. Parrish

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQV} This is puzzle # 36 for Mr. Parrish. Monday freshness: 90%
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© 2013, The New York Times5/13/13 ( No. 23,197 )
Across
1
Judge's garment : ROBE
5
Plant with fronds : FERN
9
Book after Jonah : MICAH
14
Zenith : APEX
15
Et ___ (and others) : ALIA
16
Machine at a construction site : CRANE
17
Lofty : HIGH
18
Last ones in the pool, say : ROTTENEGGS
20
Chicago Cubs spring training site : MESAARIZONA
22
Hosp. areas for accident victims : ERS
23
Actress Thurman : UMA
24
Pattern for many 1960s T-shirts : TIEDYE
26
"Rag Mop" hitmakers, 1950 : AMESBROTHERS
32
Prefix with task : MULTI
33
Unmannered sort : BOOR
34
Lawbreaker, in police lingo : PERP
38
E.P.A.-proscribed compound, for short : PCB
39
New Jersey's capital : TRENTON
42
Menagerie : ZOO
43
Hoax : SHAM
45
Bone: Prefix : OSTE
46
Chinese or Japanese : ASIAN
48
You've heard it many times before : SAMEOLDSTORY
51
1986 Tom Cruise/Val Kilmer action film : TOPGUN
54
___ de cologne : EAU
55
"You ___ what you eat" : ARE
56
Metal-joining technique : SEAMWELDING
63
Salon : BEAUTYSHOP
65
Clothes presser : IRON
66
Philosopher John who posited a theory of social contract : LOCKE
67
Unabridged dictionary, e.g. : TOME
68
Mrs. Charlie Chaplin : OONA
69
White from fright, say : ASHEN
70
Library ID : ISBN
71
Flat-bottomed boat : SCOW
Down
1
Chicago mayor Emanuel : RAHM
2
"The Andy Griffith Show" boy : OPIE
3
Panhandles : BEGS
4
Deplete : EXHAUST
5
___, Straus and Giroux (book publisher) : FARRAR
6
"The Time Machine" people : ELOI
7
"Puttin' on the ___" : RITZ
8
Western mil. alliance : NATO
9
QB Steve who won a Payton Award : MCNAIR
10
Fury : IRE
11
Like animals in a 42-Across : CAGED
12
Furious : ANGRY
13
Hermann who wrote "Steppenwolf" : HESSE
19
Intestinal prefix : ENTERO
21
Circumference : AMBIT
25
Mind reader's ability, briefly : ESP
26
Concert blasters : AMPS
27
"Thank you very ___" : MUCH
28
Exile isle for Napoleon : ELBA
29
Seriously overweight : OBESE
30
Kemo Sabe's sidekick : TONTO
31
Equivalent of five houses in Monopoly : HOTEL
35
Basso Pinza : EZIO
36
Lion's sound : ROAR
37
Smallish equine : PONY
40
McCain : 2008 :: ___ : 2012 : ROMNEY
41
___ decongestant : NASAL
44
Where the Knicks play in N.Y.C. : MSG
47
Small apartments : STUDIOS
49
Jane who wrote "Pride and Prejudice" : AUSTEN
50
Become more intense : DEEPEN
51
Small Indian drum : TABLA
52
Nabisco cookies : OREOS
53
Fruit with a pit : PEACH
57
Italian wine area : ASTI
58
Conductance units : MHOS
59
Where a baby develops : WOMB
60
Camaro ___-Z : IROC
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Something you might get your hand slapped for doing : NONO
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Chew like a beaver : GNAW
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Luau instrument, informally : UKE

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

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