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New York Times, Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Author:
Tim Croce
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Including 38-, 41- and 60-Across, a description of this puzzle's theme
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
333/12/20106/27/20151
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.5620082%
Tim Croce

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JKQW} This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Croce. Wednesday freshness: 83%
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© 2011, The New York Times6/22/11 ( No. 22,506 )
Across
1
Aerated beverage : COLA
5
Bering Sea port : NOME
9
Common ankle injury : SPRAIN
15
Domitian's "you love" : AMAS
16
Eastern sultanate : OMAN
17
Forerun : LEADTO
18
Grand Central Terminal sight : TAXISTAND
20
Historical region of France : ARTOIS
21
Including 38-, 41- and 60-Across, a description of this puzzle's theme : THEFIRSTLETTERS
23
Jalisco article : LAS
24
Kröller-Müller Museum artist : SEURAT
25
La.-to-Mich. dir. : NNE
27
Middle-earth creatures : ENTS
29
"No Love (But Your Love)" singer, 1958 : MATHIS
32
Often-misused possessive : ITS
33
Pa. accident site of 1979 : TMI
36
Quake : SEISM
37
"Red Storm Rising" grp. : NSA
38
Second part of the description : OFEACH
41
Third part of the description : CLUEGO
43
Under 100 mg per deciliter of this is considered optimal : LDL
44
Verse oneself in : LEARN
47
When to take off: Abbr. : ETD
48
Xavier Cugat film "___ Were Never Lovelier" : YOU
49
YM or Us output : ISSUES
51
Z is the last of them : ABCS
55
Act humanly : ERR
56
Because : INTHAT
59
Curve : ARC
60
Description's end : FROMATOZINORDER
65
Emerged : ARISEN
66
Facet joints connect them : VERTEBRAE
67
Greets at the door : SEESIN
68
Harper's Bazaar illustrator of the 1910s-'30s : ERTE
69
"It must've been something ___" : IATE
70
John McCain ranch locale : SEDONA
71
Katharine of "The Graduate" : ROSS
72
Lost no time : SPED
Down
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"Moo" makers : CATTLE
2
Native Nebraskan : OMAHAN
3
Overpermissive to the extreme : LAXEST
4
"Pshaw!," to a Valley girl : ASIF
5
Québécois's "our" : NOTRE
6
Ruminant's third stomach : OMASUM
7
Sacred words repeated in prayer : MANTRAS
8
Take too long : ENDLATE
9
Unit for a chairmaker : SLAT
10
Vivacious : PERT
11
Words per minute, e.g. : RATE
12
Xmas tree activity : ADORNING
13
"You're wrong!" : ITISNTSO
14
ZIP codes, e.g.: Abbr. : NOS
19
Auntie, to Mom : SIS
22
Body of principles : ETHIC
26
Conductor ___-Pekka Salonen : ESA
28
Division of an office bldg. : STE
30
Elba, for one : ISLE
31
Filth : SMUT
34
Guinea's neighbor to the northeast : MALI
35
Hot-weather treats : ICES
38
Incapable of being detected, in a way : ODORFREE
39
Just left a dusting, say : FLURRIED
40
Knows the answer : HASIT
42
LeShan who wrote child-care books : EDA
43
More common name for caustic soda : LYE
45
Not stay within the allotted time : RUNOVER
46
Online option since 1998 : NETZERO
50
Polos, e.g. : SHIRTS
52
Quite an injustice : BADRAP
53
Result in : CREATE
54
Speech that harangues : SCREED
57
Throws in a chip : ANTES
58
Ungulate's hoof, essentially : TOE
61
Veal dish ___ bucco : OSSO
62
Words after let or count : MEIN
63
"X-Men" actress Paquin : ANNA
64
Yount had 1,406 of them : RBIS
65
Zebra relative : ASS

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

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