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New York Times, Monday, August 29, 2011

Author:
Andrea Carla Michaels and Michael Blake
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
48-Down : Schlock
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
866/12/20007/8/202455
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762122300
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
241.6430623%
Andrea Carla Michaels
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141/28/20086/13/201910
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0831200
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1.646023%
Michael Blake

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 29 for Ms. Michaels. This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Blake. Monday freshness: 43%
Constructor notes:

ANDREA:

Michael Blake and I are frequent lunch companions and I wonder if this idea came up over a bagel one day! the best part of this puzzle for me is getting the word SHMEAR literally over the reveal BAGEL. We had to decide if we wanted the types of bagels to be the first or last word. Some concern that the PURPLEONION might not be well enough known. But it is the icon of comedy and jazz clubs here in SF and where the Smothers Brothers and Woody Allen and Mort Sahl all cut their teeth. As a former standup, I couldn't resist and was happy it slipped through.

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© 2011, The New York Times8/29/11 ( No. 22,574 )
Across
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You can stick them in your ear : QTIPS
6
"Planet of the ___" : APES
10
Soft, thick lump : GLOB
14
Sum : TOTAL
15
Leap : JUMP
16
Learning by memorization : ROTE
17
Bolivian capital : SUCRE
18
Mideast leader: Var. : AMIR
19
The "a" in a.m. : ANTE
20
Legendary San Francisco music/comedy club where Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen have performed : THEPURPLEONION
23
To the ___ degree : NTH
24
Extremity : END
25
Got rid of some tobacco juices, say : SPAT
28
Ali Baba's magic words : OPENSESAME
35
Counterpart of hers : HIS
36
Puppeteer Lewis : SHARI
37
High-end watchmaker : ROLEX
38
Bonus : EXTRA
40
Quarry, e.g. : PIT
41
Amalgamate : UNITE
42
Poet/playwright Jones : LEROI
43
___ self-defense : ACTIN
45
Tavern : BAR
46
Bad place to live when the river rises : FLOODPLAIN
48
Deposit around a river's mouth : SILT
49
Road surfacing material : TAR
50
Cartoon frame : CEL
52
Everything ... or what might cover an everything 62-Across? : THEWHOLESHMEAR
60
The "A" in U.A.W. : AUTO
61
Group of birds : BEVY
62
Item whose varieties include the endings of 20-, 28- and 46-Across : BAGEL
64
Deborah of "The King and I" : KERR
65
50-50 : EVEN
66
Online-only publication : EZINE
67
Sized up visually : EYED
68
45 or 78 : DISC
69
Results of bumps to a bumper : DENTS
Down
1
Ice cream amts. : QTS
2
Brazenly promote : TOUT
3
"The Seven Year ___" : ITCH
4
Mother or father : PARENT
5
Caught some Z's : SLEPT
6
Not fully shut : AJAR
7
The heart, essentially : PUMP
8
Actor Jannings who won the first Best Actor Oscar : EMIL
9
Wild shopping sessions : SPREES
10
Junior's junior : GRANDSON
11
Actress Anderson : LONI
12
"Beetle Bailey" bulldog : OTTO
13
"___ there, done that" : BEEN
21
"This isn't looking good" : UHOH
22
Minimal lead in baseball : ONERUN
25
Bookcase part : SHELF
26
Dot on a computer screen : PIXEL
27
Houston baseballer : ASTRO
29
Vatican-related : PAPAL
30
"Fear of Fifty" writer Jong : ERICA
31
Capone henchman : NITTI
32
What a murder suspect needs : ALIBI
33
Zinc or zirconium : METAL
34
Apply, as pressure : EXERT
36
Got ready for a tongue depressor, say : SAIDAH
39
The Greek "khalix" (pebble) for the English "calculus," e.g. : ROOTWORD
44
Ruler part : INCH
47
Examined deeply : PROBED
48
Schlock : SLEAZE
51
Fix deeply and tightly : EMBED
52
Seize : TAKE
53
___ Lewis and the News : HUEY
54
To live, to Lévy : ETRE
55
___ Strauss jeans : LEVI
56
After-work times, in classifieds : EVES
57
Harmony : SYNC
58
Opposed to, in dialect : AGIN
59
Check for a landlady : RENT
63
"___ Misérables" : LES

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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