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New York Times, Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Author:
Edward Sessa
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
34-Down : Meir and Rabin, briefly
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Edward Sessa

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Sessa. Wednesday freshness: 46%
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© 2010, The New York Times8/11/10 ( No. 22,191 )
Across
1
"Attention please ..." : AHEM
5
Mensa figs. : IQS
8
F.B.I. operation involving a nonexistent sheik : ABSCAM
14
Nattily dressed ad figure : MRPEANUT
16
Queen's Guard workplace : PALACE
17
Want badly : YEARNFOR
18
Going nowhere, jobwise : INARUT
19
Early second-century year : CVI
20
Took advantage of : USED
22
Suffix with bleacher : ITE
23
Dickens character who says "Something will turn up" : WILKINSMICAWBER
28
Lupino of "High Sierra" : IDA
29
Dogpatch diminutive : LIL
30
Philosopher Descartes : RENE
31
Mineral in tailor's chalk : TALC
33
Toy with an axis : TOP
35
Jim Crow-fighting org. : NAACP
39
Wisecracking dummy of old radio : CHARLIEMCCARTHY
43
Mandel of "Deal or No Deal" : HOWIE
44
"Stifle!" : SHH
45
Plod along : SLOG
46
Lessen, as difficulties : EASE
49
Yahoo! competitor : AOL
51
Shirt part : ARM
52
Dorothy L. Sayers's bon vivant sleuth : LORDPETERWIMSEY
57
Therapists' org. : APA
58
Kind of collar : FLEA
59
Bucolic setting : LEA
60
Colbert or Stewart specialty : SATIRE
62
Giggling nervously : TWITTERY
67
Moon of Neptune : TRITON
68
Items worn by 14-, 23-, 39- and 52-Across : MONOCLES
69
Any of a comedic trio : STOOGE
70
59-Across grazer : EWE
71
One of a Roman septet : HILL
Down
1
First daughter of 1977-81 : AMY
2
Charlemagne's realm: Abbr. : HRE
3
DDT-banning org. : EPA
4
Maker of Zocor and Fosamax : MERCK
5
G37 automaker : INFINITI
6
Status ___ : QUO
7
Play lightly : STRUM
8
Pricing word : APIECE
9
Part of many a bank robber's outfit : BANDANNA
10
1974 kidnap org. : SLA
11
Native encountered by Columbus : CARIB
12
Sharp : ACUTE
13
It's fed at curbside : METER
15
Smithery sight : ANVIL
21
Title for Mick Jagger : SIR
23
Broom-Hilda, for one : WITCH
24
Home to part of Yellowstone Park : IDAHO
25
Steven Bochco TV drama : LALAW
26
Plumlike fruit : SLOE
27
Is tiresome : WEARS
32
Sang the blues : CRIED
34
Meir and Rabin, briefly : PMS
36
Big name in tires : ATLAS
37
Milking the cows, e.g. : CHORE
38
Tiny tribesman : PYGMY
40
Jumping game : LEAPFROG
41
Blacken : CHAR
42
Mess queue : CHOWLINE
47
Greek moon goddess : SELENE
48
Saison on the Seine : ETE
50
Be dishonest with : LIETO
52
Hangs in there : LASTS
53
Some eyeball benders : OPART
54
Track odds, e.g. : RATIO
55
Wonderland cake words : EATME
56
Success on TV's "Concentration" : MATCH
61
"Am ___ believe ..." : ITO
63
Blow the socks off : WOW
64
New Haven student : ELI
65
Fam. member : REL
66
Fashion monogram : YSL

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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