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New York Times, Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Author:
Ed Sessa
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
2-Down : Knight's club
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Edward Sessa

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJQVXZ} This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Sessa. Tuesday freshness: 52%
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© 2010, The New York Times7/20/10 ( No. 22,169 )
Across
1
Like the air in a cigar bar : SMOKY
6
In heaps : PILED
11
Medallioned vehicle : CAB
14
Soup server's implement : LADLE
15
Dins from dens : ROARS
16
Ill temper : IRE
17
Davy Jones's locker : OCEANBOTTOM
19
Hoops org. : NBA
20
Irksome type : PEST
21
Look forward to : AWAIT
22
Foot problem, perhaps : ODOR
23
Motel extra : COT
25
Playful puppies, at times : NIPPERS
27
S'more ingredient : GRAHAMCRACKER
32
Frisk, with "down" : PAT
33
"Gone With the Wind" plantation : TARA
34
Loonlike bird : GREBE
37
VW or BMW : AUTO
39
"Hold the rocks," at a bar : NOICE
42
___ mater : ALMA
43
"All ___ is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry": G. K. Chesterton : SLANG
45
Shaker contents : SALT
47
Pop music's ___ Lobos : LOS
48
Site of London's Great Exhibition of 1851 : CRYSTALPALACE
52
Yucky, in baby talk : ICKYPOO
54
Cap-and-crown org.? : ADA
55
Shore washer : TIDE
56
Rich soil deposit : LOESS
59
Repairs some tears : SEWS
63
Big fuss : ADO
64
Veneration of a cult image : IDOLWORSHIP
66
Turkey piece : LEG
67
___ Street, Perry Mason's secretary : DELLA
68
Name associated with the starts of 17-, 27-, 48- and 64-Across : BILLY
69
Sterile hosp. areas : ORS
70
"As You Like It" forest : ARDEN
71
Food for birds : SEEDS
Down
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Barely edible fare : SLOP
2
Knight's club : MACE
3
Keatsian works : ODES
4
Coffee ___ (social gathering) : KLATCH
5
Cash in Kyoto : YEN
6
Ship's front : PROW
7
Least bit : IOTA
8
Monterrey miss, e.g. : LATINA
9
Rated X : EROTIC
10
Mil. award : DSM
11
Rags-to-riches heroine : CINDERELLA
12
Shady area : ARBOR
13
Grizzlies, e.g. : BEARS
18
Dynamic Duo member : BATMAN
22
Setting for a Marx Brothers farce : OPERA
24
Cheerios grain : OAT
26
UPS delivery: Abbr. : PKG
27
Transcript nos. : GPAS
28
Brother of Fidel : RAUL
29
Responders to "Sic 'em!" : ATTACKDOGS
30
___-Magnon : CRO
31
Mrs. Gorbachev : RAISA
35
Coll. football star, e.g. : BMOC
36
Life of Riley : EASE
38
One way to eat ham : ONRYE
40
Low-___ (for dieters) : CAL
41
City across the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juárez : ELPASO
44
Cheat, in 43-Across : GYP
46
Little bit : TAD
49
Electrician's alloy : SOLDER
50
Ineligible for kiddie prices, say : TOOOLD
51
Old TV canine : LASSIE
52
Author Calvino : ITALO
53
Fall drink : CIDER
57
Magazine title that's a pronoun : ELLE
58
Trumpeting bird : SWAN
60
"Pride and Prejudice" actress Jennifer : EHLE
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Like jokers, sometimes : WILD
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1974 Gould/Sutherland spoof : SPYS
64
Mrs. McKinley : IDA
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N.F.L. ball carriers : RBS

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

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