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New York Times, Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Author:
Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Across : "___ tu" (Verdi aria)
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Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {Q} Scrabble average: 2.49 This is puzzle # 171 for Ms. Salomon. Tuesday freshness: 93%
Jim Horne notes:

Until David C. Duncan Dekker broke the record in 2016, this grid had the highest Scrabble score in NYT history.

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© 2007, The New York Times1/30/7 ( No. 20,902 )
Across
1
Speak in Spain : HABLA
6
Certain orchestra : POPS
10
Kid's racer : KART
14
Make housebound, say, in the winter : ICEIN
15
Fair's opposite : FOUL
16
Building beam : IBAR
17
Bear of children's verse : FUZZYWUZZY
19
Chucklehead : BOZO
20
Indignation : IRE
21
"___ Silver, away!" : HIYO
22
Lively, as dance music : JIVEY
23
Sandwich sausage : SALAMI
26
Kismet : FATE
27
Congratulatory cry : HUZZAHHUZZAH
33
"This looks ver-r-ry bad!" : OHGOD
36
Neptune's realm : OCEAN
37
Prefix with skeleton : EXO
38
Last episode in a Monday-Friday miniseries : PARTV
39
ATM maker : NCR
40
Spares, e.g. : TIRES
42
"___ tu" (Verdi aria) : ERI
43
Motionless : INERT
45
Superstars, to fans : IDOLS
46
Flashiness : RAZZLEDAZZLE
49
"Nana" author Émile : ZOLA
50
All one can see : EYEFUL
54
Prize highly : VALUE
56
Splinter group : SECT
59
"That's ___-brainer" : ANO
60
Tennis score : ADIN
61
Slogan of Little Caesars : PIZZAPIZZA
64
Made a case? : SUED
65
Zhivago's love : LARA
66
Had a traditional dinner : ATEIN
67
Head angel in "Touched by an Angel" : TESS
68
Epps of "Scream 2" : OMAR
69
Dangerous nestful : WASPS
Down
1
45 players : HIFIS
2
Integra maker : ACURA
3
Gem holder : BEZEL
4
Gossipy Smith : LIZ
5
"___ objections?" : ANY
6
"Bah, humbug!" : PFUI
7
Leaking goop : OOZY
8
"The Godfather" novelist : PUZO
9
Surreptitious : SLY
10
Give unwanted advice : KIBITZ
11
Like hoped-for winter temps in the North : ABOVEZERO
12
Demolish : RAZE
13
Home of Paris : TROY
18
Crackerjack : WHIZ
22
In a stylish way : JAUNTILY
24
On ___ streak (lucky) : AHOT
25
Joyless town after Casey struck out : MUDVILLE
26
Govt. mortgage provider : FHA
28
In districts : ZONED
29
Ghana's capital : ACCRA
30
Alamo competitor : HERTZ
31
Leap for Lipinski : AXEL
32
"Bonanza" brother : HOSS
33
Phone button : OPER
34
___-kiri : HARA
35
Scary bears : GRIZZLIES
41
What the French think? : IDEE
44
Granting grp. : NEA
47
"Holy smokes!" : ZOUNDS
48
Epsilon follower : ZETA
51
Unsettles : FAZES
52
Open, as a jacket : UNZIP
53
Bank sign : LOANS
54
Seemingly boundless : VAST
55
Together, musically : ADUE
56
"The King and I" setting : SIAM
57
Book after Chronicles : EZRA
58
Father of a grand duke : CZAR
61
Hamas rival, for short : PLO
62
Hairy hand : PAW
63
"Ain't ___ shame?" : ITA

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

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