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New York Times, Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Author:
Tim Wescott
Editor:
Will Shortz
21-Down : Contest at 20 paces
TotalDebutLatest
67/9/200810/7/2009
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CircleScrabbleFresh
41.6339%
Tim Wescott

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Wescott. Wednesday freshness: 48%
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© 2009, The New York Times10/7/9 ( No. 21,883 )
Across
1
Sailor : SWAB
5
Austen and Flaubert heroines : EMMAS
10
Blitzing linebacker's feat : SACK
14
Own : HAVE
15
Raid target : ROACH
16
Ask : PRAY
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Served as well as possible : ACED
18
"El ___" (1983 film) : NORTE
19
"Gimme a C! ...," e.g. : YELL
20
See 57-Across : WORLDSERIESGAME
23
Gene of westerns : AUTRY
24
One likely to lend a needed hand : PAL
25
"I'm stumped" : GOTME
28
Meter reading, e.g. : DATUM
32
Letter in Socrates' name : RHO
33
Releases : LETSGO
39
Dominican-born player in the 600 club : SOSA
40
Writers Fleming and McEwan : IANS
42
Center of a 57-Across : MOUND
43
Box gently : SPAR
44
Bird's home : TREE
45
When repeated, statement after an explosion : TEMPER
47
Wildcatter's find : OIL
48
Annual feast : SEDER
50
Prefix with red : INFRA
52
___ choy (Chinese green) : BOK
54
Finnish architect Alvar ___ : AALTO
57
Setting for a 20-Across ... as represented by this puzzle's circled letters : BASEBALLDIAMOND
64
Botanical angle : AXIL
65
Friend in the hood: Var. : HOMIE
66
Flu feature : AGUE
67
Nincompoop : BOZO
68
Farm soils : LOAMS
69
Temple cases : ARKS
70
De novo : ANEW
71
Dawn : ONSET
72
Overly docile : MEEK
Down
1
Henry Higgins's creator : SHAW
2
Home of the Dr Pepper Museum : WACO
3
Say with conviction : AVER
4
Pandemonium : BEDLAM
5
___ & Young (accounting firm) : ERNST
6
Hungry cow, maybe : MOOER
7
Wed : MARRY
8
Dramatic start : ACTI
9
Pen filler : SHEEP
10
Hand-held telescope : SPYGLASS
11
Geographical info : AREA
12
Storm's predecessor : CALM
13
Richard Petty's racing son : KYLE
21
Contest at 20 paces : DUEL
22
Blue : SAD
25
Down-home breakfast serving : GRITS
26
Bear's landing place? : OHARE
27
Added muscle, with "up" : TONED
29
On ___ things : TOPOF
30
Old carrier name : USAIR
31
___ Maples Trump : MARLA
34
One with defib training : EMT
35
Chipped part of a statue, maybe : TOE
36
Bottom line : SUM
37
Economic fig. : GNP
38
Shelley's "___ to Naples" : ODE
41
Referral for further information : SEEBELOW
46
"Lovely" Beatles girl : RITA
49
Laura's 1960s sitcom hubby : ROB
51
Polite denial : NOMAAM
53
Artist Frida ___ : KAHLO
54
Actress Kruger and others : ALMAS
55
Stop on ___ : ADIME
56
"Thou ___, most ignorant monster": Shak. : LIEST
57
Cake with a kick : BABA
58
Dendrite's counterpart : AXON
59
9 1/2 narrow, e.g. : SIZE
60
"Laughing" bird : LOON
61
Monster : OGRE
62
Certain W.M.D. : NUKE
63
PC site : DESK

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

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