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New York Times, Thursday, April 18, 2013

Author:
Stu Ockman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
52-Down : Exhume
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Stu Ockman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 75, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Ockman. Grid flow: 24.7 Thursday freshness: 76%
Jim Horne notes:

I've highlighted the meandering theme answers with the range of ALPs so you can see how nicely symmetric everything is.

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© 2013, The New York Times4/18/13 ( No. 23,172 )
Across
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"This bag is not ___" : ATOY
8
Figures in statistics : MODES
13
Film resident of Crab Key Island : DRNO
14
Apple, e.g. : POME
15
Instrument bearing the coat of arms of France's Charles IX : AMATI
16
Go-between : MIDDLEMAN
18
Pen pal? : FELON
19
Futile : INVAIN
22
Where seawater remains after an ebb : TIDALPOOL
23
Quick refreshment : NAP
25
Apricot relative : SLOE
26
Psalm ender : SELAH
32
Eleniak of "Baywatch" : ERIKA
35
"___ Longstocking" : PIPPI
37
Earth, e.g. : ORB
38
Unethical law enforcement practice : RACIALPROFILING
39
Breathers : LULLS
41
Strong irritation : IRE
42
___ charmed life : LEADA
43
Home of "The Nude Maja" : PRADO
44
Baseball, in America : NATIONALPASTIME
46
Way to see the world? : ATLAS
48
Early 12th-century year : MCIV
50
Switzerland's ___ Gorge : AAR
54
Engine's output : MECHANICALPOWER
58
Illuminated from above : TOPLIT
60
Divide up : ALLOT
61
Shelf on a cliff : ROCKLEDGE
63
Gunk : SLIME
64
Da capo ___ : ARIA
65
Push : TOUT
66
Caught on video : TAPED
67
Long writers' blocks? : LEGALPADS
68
High points of which five are found going up in this puzzle : ALPS
Down
1
Accept, as an error : ADMIT
2
Lopez with the 1965 hit "Lemon Tree" : TRINI
3
One way to see a movie : ONDVD
4
Big-eared "Star Wars" character : YODA
5
First tuba note? : OOM
6
Stickup man on "The Wire" : OMAR
7
Jay ___ Garage (popular automotive Web site) : LENOS
8
Partners in crime : MAFIOSI
9
Western ___ : OMELET
10
"Swans Reflecting Elephants" artist : DALI
11
William and Harry attended it : ETON
12
Turn state's evidence : SING
14
Kind of colony : PENAL
17
First part of a form to fill out : LINEA
21
Ruckuses : FLAPS
24
Historical name for New Guinea : PAPUA
26
Water-___ : SKI
27
Margaret Thatcher's middle name : HILDA
29
U.S.S. ___ (W.W. II battleship) : IOWA
30
TV neigh-sayer? : MRED
31
River of Iberia : EBRO
32
Leprechaun's home : ERIN
33
Scarce, to Scipio : RARA
34
Actor who made his film debut in "Breakin'," 1984 : ICET
36
Señorita's silver : PLATA
39
"April Theses" writer : LENIN
40
Hosp. areas : ORS
42
Tracked down : LOCATED
43
Spoken, as evidence : PAROL
45
Cry upon walking in the front door : IMHOME
47
"Taxi" worker : LATKA
49
Like some videos : VIRAL
51
Perfume ingredient : ALDOL
52
Exhume : DIGUP
53
Doesn't strike out in the end : STETS
54
Flag holder : MAST
55
She, in Seville : ELLA
56
Fast pace : CLIP
57
Center : CORE
59
"Fur Is Dead" org. : PETA
62
Smoke : CIG

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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