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New York Times, Thursday, April 10, 2008

Author:
David J. Kahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Across : Essex competitor
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David J. Kahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQVX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 129 for Mr. Kahn. Thursday freshness: 10%
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© 2008, The New York Times4/10/8 ( No. 21,338 )
Across
1
Diamond datum : RBI
4
Annual fashion award : COTY
8
Syrian city of 2.5+ million : ALEPPO
14
Long interval : EON
15
Long (for) : ACHE
16
More 26-Across : TINIER
17
Three short, three long, three short : SOS
18
University of Paris, familiarly : THESORBONNE
20
Curved molding : OGEE
22
Fit for warehousing : STORABLE
23
Like some potatoes : RICED
25
Popped up : AROSE
26
Lilliputian : WEE
29
Selects, as a racehorse, maybe : BETSON
31
Spend the night : ROOST
33
Everyday speech : PROSE
37
___-Rooter : ROTO
38
Classic 1911 children's novel ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme : THESECRETGARDEN
44
Hesitate : BALK
45
___ metabolism : BASAL
46
Best players : ATEAM
48
Washed-out look : PALLOR
53
Essex competitor : REO
54
Spot checkers? : ADMEN
59
River near 18-Across : SEINE
60
Short-range club : NINEIRON
63
Nos. for crowds : ESTS
64
What you can find in the grid after completing this puzzle, looking up, down, left, right and diagonally, word search-style : ADOZENROSES
67
Bleachers sound : BOO
68
Dumpling stuffed with cheese : PIROGI
69
Capital of Valais : SION
70
"___ Town" : OUR
71
Carpentry and the like : TRADES
72
Designer/architect Goldfinger : ERNO
73
Oils, say : ART
Down
1
Soak up again, as liquid : RESORB
2
Dance energetically : BOOGIE
3
Antenna holder, maybe : INSECT
4
See 66-Down : CAT
5
Phil who sang "I Ain't Marching Anymore" : OCHS
6
Sorority letter : THETA
7
"___ no?" : YESOR
8
Gillette shavers : ATRAS
9
Women's ___ : LIBBER
10
Certain alkene : ENOL
11
Good floor material : PINEWOOD
12
What you might be doing this puzzle in : PEN
13
Tram contents : ORE
19
Río de ___, former Spanish territory in Africa : ORO
21
Some Caltech grads, for short : EES
24
Skinny : DOPE
27
Tivoli's Villa d'___ : ESTE
28
"The chief nurse of England's statesmen" : ETON
30
Creation of the Energy Reorg. Act of 1974 : NRC
32
Three-time Hart Trophy winner : ORR
34
Ball : ORB
35
Hydrospace : SEA
36
Doctor Who and others, briefly : ETS
38
One way to get to the top : TBAR
39
"Too great a burden to bear": Martin Luther King Jr. : HATE
40
Stage actress Duse : ELEONORA
41
Forerunner of rocksteady : SKA
42
Hiatus : GAP
43
"___ the day!" (Shakespearean interjection) : ALAS
47
Horse-training school : MANEGE
49
Dixie hero : LEE
50
Capital of República Portuguesa : LISBOA
51
Going from concert to concert : ONTOUR
52
Vacation destination : RESORT
55
Comic Leary : DENIS
56
Peace, in Russian : MIR
57
Unevenly notched, as a leaf : EROSE
58
Respectful reply : NOSIR
61
Big shirt maker : IZOD
62
Light material? : NEON
64
Quick to pick up : APT
65
Scorsese, e.g.: Abbr. : DIR
66
With 4-Down, tracked vehicle : SNO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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