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New York Times, Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Author:
Steve Salitan
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
33-Down : Rembrandt, notably
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Steve Salitan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 39 Missing: {GQV} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Salitan. Wednesday freshness: 75%
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© 2011, The New York Times9/28/11 ( No. 22,604 )
Across
1
1960s "Bye!" : PEACE
6
___ de Boulogne (Paris park) : BOIS
10
Web site with a "Buy It Now" option : EBAY
14
Trip planner's aid : ATLAS
15
Way back when : ONCE
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Miser's cry : MINE
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Angle symbol, in trigonometry : THETA
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Mark in a margin : STET
19
Have ___ (lose it) : ACOW
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Iodine in a barber's first-aid kit? : EARCUTSOLUTION
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Ultimate degree : NTH
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Passbook abbr. : DEP
25
Vamp Negri : POLA
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Doofus given a pink slip? : ASSDISMISSED
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Root used as a soap substitute : AMOLE
34
Balancing pro : CPA
35
Philosopher Mo-___ : TZE
36
Dim bulb, so to speak : DULLARD
39
Hobby kit with a colony : ANTFARM
42
Sans affiliation: Abbr. : IND
43
Muff : ERR
45
Caffeine-laden nuts : KOLAS
46
One modifying goals? : AIMSADJUSTOR
51
Texas ___ M : AAND
52
One with a 6-yr. term : SEN
53
Tokyo, to shoguns : EDO
56
Cronus and Rhea's barbecue remains? : ASHOFTHETITANS
60
Official proceedings : ACTA
61
Municipal laws: Abbr. : ORDS
62
Like some checking accounts : NOFEE
63
Title in an Uncle Remus story : BRER
64
Unlucky number for Caesar? : XIII
65
Influence ... and a hint to 20-, 26-, 46- and 56-Across : CLOUT
66
Anti-snakebite supplies, e.g. : SERA
67
Superheroes of comics : XMEN
68
Well-versed : ADEPT
Down
1
Party spread : PATE
2
One of the Coens : ETHAN
3
Argus-eyed : ALERT
4
Odds-and-ends category : CATCHALL
5
Son of Isaac : ESAU
6
Ordered (around) : BOSSED
7
Germane : ONTOPIC
8
Home of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano: Abbr. : ICEL
9
Eighth-inning hurler, often : SETUPMAN
10
Many résumé submissions, these days : EMAILS
11
Like a New York/Los Angeles romance : BICOASTAL
12
In a bit : ANON
13
Bow wood : YEW
21
Results of most 100-yd. returns : TDS
22
You, to Yves : TOI
27
Serpent's home : SEA
28
Curative locale : SPA
29
Cornell of Cornell University : EZRA
30
2012 Charlotte conventioneers: Abbr. : DEMS
31
Sarah McLachlan hit : ADIA
32
Bond that's often tax-free, for short : MUNI
33
Rembrandt, notably : OLDMASTER
37
Player of a TV junkman : REDDFOXX
38
Hoopster Erving, to fans : DRJ
40
End-of-fight letters : TKO
41
Predicted : FORETOLD
44
"The Satanic Verses" novelist : RUSHDIE
47
Much of Libya : SAHARA
48
Mayo is part of it : ANO
49
Greets at the door : SEESIN
50
What might make molehills out of a mountain? : TNT
54
Willem of "Platoon" : DAFOE
55
Best : ONEUP
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Spread unit : ACRE
57
At one's fighting weight, say : TRIM
58
Machu Picchu builder : INCA
59
Paving stone : SETT
60
Gym rat's "six-pack" : ABS

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