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New York Times, Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Author:
Kurt Mueller
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
12-Down : "What a surprise!"
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Kurt Mueller

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {BQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Mueller. Wednesday freshness: 37%
Jeff Chen notes:
A puzzle based around show-biz catchphrases! Kurt does a nice job of selecting themers which are easily recognizable to the general ... read more
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© 2014, The New York Times5/7/14 ( No. 23,556 )
Across
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None-too-bright sorts : OAFS
5
Summaries : RECAPS
11
Tippler : SOT
14
Drop ___ (start to strip) : TROU
15
Lacking in harmony : ATONAL
16
When tripled, a dance move : CHA
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Ed McMahon intro words : HERESJOHNNY
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Have : OWN
20
___ nous : ENTRE
21
French vote : OUI
22
Synthesizer pioneer Robert : MOOG
23
Charles on a piano : RAY
24
Lawrence Welk intro words : AONEANDATWO
28
Grub, e.g. : LARVA
30
Way out of N.Y.C. : LIRR
31
Italian ballad subject : AMOR
33
Will ___, "The Realistic Joneses" playwright : ENO
35
Setting for many van Gogh paintings : ARLES
39
Chevy Chase intro words : LIVEFROMNEWYORK
43
Diamond datum : STEAL
44
Tidy ___ : SUM
45
When doubled, a Billy Idol #1 hit : MONY
46
___ Cass : MAMA
49
Broad valleys : DALES
51
Jackie Gleason intro words : ANDAWAYWEGO
55
Summer setting in Mass. : EDT
58
Inside dope : POOP
59
Teachers' grp. : NEA
60
Conger hunter : EELER
62
Qt. or gal. : AMT
63
Possible title for this puzzle : ITSSHOWTIME
66
Tattle (on) : RAT
67
Pan producer, perhaps : CRITIC
68
In the know about : UPON
69
Sample : TRY
70
Settings of Delacroix and Ingres paintings : HAREMS
71
Ain't fixed? : ISNT
Down
1
Remaining : OTHER
2
Where the action is : ARENA
3
Score just before winning a game, say : FORTYLOVE
4
Litigant : SUER
5
British rule in India : RAJ
6
W.W. II command : ETO
7
Small salmon: Var. : COHOE
8
Like pansies and petunias : ANNUAL
9
Bologna sandwiches? : PANINI
10
Like some winks : SLY
11
Get moving : SCOOT
12
"What a surprise!" : OHWOW
13
Letter between sierra and uniform : TANGO
18
Scorch : SEAR
22
Proposal words : MARRYME
25
Through with : OVER
26
iPod model : NANO
27
Command in Uno : DRAW
29
Hotel handout : AREAMAP
31
Gore and Green : ALS
32
Cambridge sch. : MIT
34
Yoga chants : OMS
36
Ship sinkers, in an old saying : LOOSELIPS
37
Suffix with east or west : ERN
38
"The daily bread of the eyes," per Ralph Waldo Emerson : SKY
40
Hubris, for Icarus : FLAW
41
Like Rodin's "The Thinker" : NUDE
42
Slate, e.g. : EMAG
47
Words to live by : MANTRA
48
Response to captain's orders : AYESIR
50
MGM founder Marcus : LOEW
51
Spaced out? : APART
52
All-Star shortstop Garciaparra : NOMAR
53
Daft : DOTTY
54
It may be hazardous : WASTE
56
Speed ___ : DEMON
57
Former Mississippi senator Lott : TRENT
61
French CD holder : ETUI
63
I, in Innsbruck : ICH
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"Tell ___," 1962 hit by the Exciters : HIM
65
Mil. training site : OCS

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

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