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New York Times, Monday, July 18, 2011

Author:
Kevin Donovan
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
5-Down : Dead duck
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Kevin Donovan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQWXZ} This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Donovan. Monday freshness: 45%
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© 2011, The New York Times7/18/11 ( No. 22,532 )
Across
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Promgoers' car : LIMO
5
Clark of "Gone With the Wind" : GABLE
10
Exam for future docs : MCAT
14
The "A" of U.A.E. : ARAB
15
Ryan of "Love Story" : ONEAL
16
Cincinnati's place : OHIO
17
Legendary 1920s-'30s Harlem nightspot : COTTONCLUB
19
Hospital units : BEDS
20
Make certain : ENSURE
21
Extracts (from) : DERIVES
23
Attack from above : STRAFE
26
English cathedral town : ELY
27
Dark purple : PUCE
30
Caesar of 1950s TV : SID
31
Birthplace of Muhammad : MECCA
34
Lawyers' org. : ABA
35
Croat or Serb : SLAV
37
Old Turkish pooh-bahs : PASHAS
38
Neither's partner : NOR
39
Popular Massachusetts vacation area : CAPECOD
41
Concert stage item : AMP
42
One who talks, talks, talks : GASBAG
44
___ d'Ivoire : COTE
45
Envision : SEE
46
What dark clouds may portend : STORM
47
Show hosts, for short : MCS
48
Long, long time : AEON
49
Puppy's bite : NIP
50
Kind of plane or projection : ASTRAL
53
Modus operandi of a toilet plunger : SUCTION
56
Inuit : ESKIMO
60
Et ___ (and others) : ALII
61
Pioneering French designer with her own fragrance : COCOCHANEL
64
Bugs in "A Bug's Life" : ANTS
65
Singsong syllables : TRALA
66
"That's a ___ off my mind!" : LOAD
67
Evan or Birch of Indiana politics : BAYH
68
___ in the right direction : ASTEP
69
B&B's : INNS
Down
1
Negligee material : LACE
2
Fe, to scientists : IRON
3
Cushions for tumblers : MATS
4
Slow to catch on : OBTUSE
5
Dead duck : GONER
6
Org. led by Mandela, once : ANC
7
___ Paese cheese : BEL
8
Sang the praises of : LAUDED
9
German river to the North Sea : ELBE
10
Items hanging in cribs : MOBILES
11
Comic actor who shares a name with a Washington suburb : CHEVYCHASE
12
Secretary, e.g. : AIDE
13
Fling : TOSS
18
Table scrap : ORT
22
Like the film "Arthur" in 2011 : REMADE
24
"And make it snappy!" : ASAP
25
Small amount of blood serum ... or a title for this puzzle : FIVECCS
27
Feelings of hunger : PANGS
28
W.W. II ship sinker : UBOAT
29
Capital of Nevada : CARSONCITY
32
Traditional Hitchcock appearance in a Hitchcock film : CAMEO
33
Colorado town or tree : ASPEN
35
Shrimp dish : SCAMPI
36
Fall behind : LAG
37
One calling the kettle black : POT
40
Price : COST
43
Like the Union Jack : BRITISH
47
Homes that may have circular drives : MANORS
48
Soluble salt mixture : ALKALI
51
Summary : RECAP
52
Baseball bat wood : ASH
53
Swedish auto : SAAB
54
Wrist/elbow connector : ULNA
55
Eight: Prefix : OCTA
57
Closing ___ (surrounding) : INON
58
Like a bully : MEAN
59
Cutlass or Super 88 of bygone autodom : OLDS
62
Mouse hunter : CAT
63
Bullfight cheer : OLE

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

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