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New York Times, Monday, December 26, 2016

Author:
Jules P. Markey
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
64-Across : Actress Thurman
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Jules P. Markey

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQVZ} This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Markey. Grid flow: 20.0 Monday freshness: 84%
Jules P. Markey notes:
I originally started work on this puzzle in early 2014. Version One had a 4-5-4 configuration across the top and bottom with the ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
I wish we got cool holidays like BOXING DAY in the US. But maybe that's just my ongoing post-Harry Potter Anglophilia speaking because ... read more
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© 2016, The New York Times12/26/16 ( No. 24,520 )
Across
1
Go out, as the tide : EBB
4
Permit : LET
7
Reply to a captain : AYE
10
Brewpub offering, for short : IPA
13
Org. that targets traffickers : DEA
14
Raised, as a building : ERECTED
16
Partner of neither : NOR
17
Mountain on which you might yodel : ALP
18
Stockpiling, in a way, as feed : SILOING
19
Letters in a personals ad : SWM
20
Gymnastics floor cover : MAT
21
Directive for additional information : SEENOTE
22
Cartoon pic : CEL
23
Get out of bed : ARISE
25
TV warrior princess : XENA
26
Race loser in an Aesop fable : HARE
27
Reflective sorts : MUSERS
29
Fur wraps : STOLES
31
This: Sp. : ESTA
32
It's usually behind a viola in an orchestra : OBOE
36
Flexible Flyers, e.g. : SLEDS
37
Present time in England? ... or a hint to each set of shaded squares : BOXINGDAY
40
Lispers' banes : ESSES
43
Scrubbed, as a NASA mission : NOGO
44
Be ___ equal footing : ONAN
48
Bear witness (to) : ATTEST
50
Soviet premier Khrushchev : NIKITA
52
Caviars : ROES
53
Try, as a case : HEAR
57
Track events : MEETS
58
Lobster ___ diavolo (Italian dish) : FRA
59
Hit pay dirt : GETRICH
61
"You ___!" ("Absolutely!") : BET
62
On the ___ (fleeing) : LAM
63
Literary critic Broyard : ANATOLE
64
Actress Thurman : UMA
65
Get older : AGE
66
Bruno Mars or Freddie Mercury : POPSTAR
67
Some PCs : HPS
68
The "p" in m.p.g. : PER
69
Ram's mate : EWE
70
Stockholm's home: Abbr. : SWE
71
U.S.P.S. assignment: Abbr. : RTE
Down
1
Sushi bar finger food : EDAMAME
2
Country whose currency, RUBLES, is almost an anagram of its name : BELARUS
3
St. John the ___ : BAPTIST
4
___ Antilles : LESSER
5
Pennsylvania city or the lake it's on : ERIE
6
Bygone point-to-point communication : TELEX
7
Suffix with valid : ATION
8
Gossipy sorts : YENTAS
9
Border : EDGE
10
Proportional to the surroundings : INSCALE
11
Motorized : POWERED
12
Like the Venus de Milo : ARMLESS
15
Summer treat that melts in the sun : CONE
24
Naval engineers : SEABEES
26
Massachusetts' Mount ___ College : HOLYOKE
28
Chi-town squad : SOX
30
Airport screening grp. : TSA
33
Container for dirty clothes : BIN
34
Yoko who loved Lennon : ONO
35
Common ingredient in pasta : EGG
38
C.I.A. precursor : OSS
39
Mafia big : DON
40
Batting helmet part : EARFLAP
41
Use for an attic or the cloud : STORAGE
42
Ship with smokestacks : STEAMER
45
Theologian Reinhold who wrote the Serenity Prayer : NIEBUHR
46
Try : ATTEMPT
47
Ilie who won both the U.S. and French Opens : NASTASE
49
What meditators try to live in : THENOW
51
Cry upon arriving : IMHERE
54
Tour de France stage : ETAPE
55
Martial ___ (judo and others) : ARTS
56
Violent protests : RIOTS
59
Stare slack-jawed : GAPE
60
Part of a wolf or a lobster : CLAW

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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