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New York Times, Saturday, September 26, 2009

Author:
Joon Pahk
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
2-Down : "In the Mood," e.g.
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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joon pahk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 27 Missing: {QW} This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. pahk. Saturday freshness: 52%
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© 2009, The New York Times9/26/9 ( No. 21,872 )
Across
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Momentous 1960s convention : VATICANII
10
Transfix : RIVET
15
"Hold your horses!" : INAMOMENT
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Cooking product : AROMA
17
Carefree : SANSSOUCI
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Takes out : DATES
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Right on : APT
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King ___ : TUT
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They may come with socks : SHINERS
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___ Beach (former home of Dodgertown) : VERO
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Team known as the Americans until 1907 : REDSOX
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MS. enclosure : SAE
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Axiom producer : ISUZU
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Enjoyed London or France : READ
31
Take out : KILL
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Patron of barristers and notaries : STMARK
34
Swing set players? : BIGBANDS
36
Capital of East London : RAND
38
Bosom : DEAR
39
Domain of Paul Bunyan : FOLKLORE
43
Author of the controversial kids' book "In the Night Kitchen" : SENDAK
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Flag in a garden : IRIS
48
Pope who excommunicated Martin Luther : LEOX
50
1971-97 nation name : ZAIRE
51
Abbr. for some generals : RET
52
Nose-in-the-air types? : PLANES
54
Particle named for a letter of the alphabet : KAON
55
Nathaniel Hawthorne story subtitled "The Bosom-Serpent" : EGOTISM
57
Part of an Avignon address : RUE
59
Do without much daring? : BUN
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1-Across topic : LATIN
61
Put together : JUXTAPOSE
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Hard to get a reaction out of : INERT
65
Judge's cry : OVERRULED
66
Where the owl and the pussycat went, in a poem : TOSEA
67
Cell organelle with microtubules : BASALBODY
Down
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In relation to : VISAVIS
2
"In the Mood," e.g. : ANAPEST
3
Fit : TANTRUM
4
Contacts 21st century-style : IMS
5
Fare, e.g. : COST
6
Dijon darling : AMOUR
7
Like it : NEUTER
8
Business end? : INC
9
"According to some ..." : ITISSAID
10
Base of a number system : RADIX
11
Bahai's birthplace : IRAN
12
Provides with a seat : VOTESIN
13
May symbol : EMERALD
14
Clothes hangers? : TASSELS
22
His #14 was retired by the Mets : HODGES
24
Location of the Boston Mountains and Buffalo River : OZARKS
26
Miss throwing a ball : DEB
29
Territory east of Ukraine on a Risk board : URAL
31
Egyptian temple complex near Luxor : KARNAK
33
Small rises : KNOLLS
35
"And a Voice to Sing With" memoirist : BAEZ
37
Worker's ideal : DREAMJOB
39
Romantic, perhaps : FIRELIT
40
Cousin of catnip : OREGANO
41
Figure of speech like "no mean feat" : LITOTES
42
Gigayear : EON
44
Game involving spinning a top on a string : DIABOLO
45
Like a cat playing in catnip : AROUSED
46
Successor to Powell on the Supreme Court : KENNEDY
49
Victor at Thermopylae, 480 B.C. : XERXES
52
One of a sailing trio : PINTA
53
Hindu maxim : SUTRA
56
Flag : TIRE
58
N.B.A. legend Monroe with a signature spin move : EARL
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It was founded by Thos. Jefferson : UVA
63
Bath suds spot? : PUB

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

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