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New York Times, Thursday, August 6, 2015

Author:
Gary Cee
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
10-Down : Zero
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Gary Cee

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {KQ} This is puzzle # 29 for Mr. Cee. Grid flow: 25.8 Thursday freshness: 69%
Gary Cee notes:
The theme answers were originally laid across the puzzle. Will liked the idea, but thought the "___ by ___" pattern would make more ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
I've seen the "literal X by Y" trick in a few different incarnations, and if you include the "X over Y," "X in Y," etc. it might be ... read more
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© 2015, The New York Times8/6/15 ( No. 24,012 )
Across
1
Part of a harvest festival decoration : COB
4
It has legs and feet and sometimes arms, but no hands : CHAIR
9
About : INRE
13
"Hymne à l'Amour" singer : PIAF
15
Worshiper of Jah, informally : RASTA
16
Soft-soap : COAX
17
Relative of an ibex : ALPINEGOAT
19
Letters before :// : HTTP
20
Prized instrument, for short : STRAD
21
Stress (over) : FRET
23
One with perfect pitch? : ACE
24
Delivered a pitch : SPIELED
26
The Night Tripper of music : DRJOHN
28
Volkswagen model starting in 2006 : EOS
29
1492, e.g., to Cristóbal Colón : ANO
30
Three-in-one gods : TRIUNES
31
Keypad locale : ATM
32
Counterpart of man-to-man : ZONE
34
Glacial ridge : ARETE
35
To everyone's surprise : AMAZINGLY
38
The Rolling Stones' "___ Rainbow" : SHESA
41
___-European language : INDO
42
Sports bar array : TVS
45
Orbital low point : PERIGEE
47
Direct-deposit payment, for short : EFT
49
"Bali ___" : HAI
50
Patron saint of Norway : OLAFII
51
Cajun or Cockney : DIALECT
53
Co. nicknamed "Brown" : UPS
54
Ozone-destroying chemicals, for short : CFCS
57
Davis with a 1988 Oscar : GEENA
58
First course, sometimes : SOUP
60
Single-seater racing class : FORMULAONE
63
Malta adopted it in 2008 : EURO
64
Gain admission : ENTER
65
U.S. Army decorations, in brief : DSCS
66
Mutton ___ : STEW
67
Many a one-year agreement : LEASE
68
One of many for Argus : EYE
Down
1
Certain fraud protector, for short : CPA
2
Garage stain : OILSPOT
3
With 14-Down, literally, grueling initiation : BAPTISM
4
Sideboard : CREDENZA
5
Common Halloween costume : HAG
6
Starting : ASOF
7
Russia's ___-Tass news service : ITAR
8
Containing sex scenes, say : RATEDR
9
Einstein's "I" : ICH
10
Zero : NOTAONE
11
Toothed wheel : RATCHET
12
Budget item : EXPENSE
14
See 3-Down : FIRE
18
Lion in "The Lion King" : NALA
22
With 27-Down, literally, a Sixth Amendment right : TRIAL
24
Beach abutter : SEA
25
Humdinger : DOOZIE
27
See 22-Down : JURY
30
Watched : TENDED
33
Who said "We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection" : NIN
35
With 36-Down, literally, beyond rational explanation : ASIF
36
See 35-Down : MAGIC
37
"How about that?!" : GOFIGURE
38
Other halves, so to speak : SPOUSES
39
Pitch in : HELPOUT
40
Job done with Artgum : ERASURE
42
See 52-Down : THENOSE
43
Room to spare? : VACANCY
44
Use a tuffet : SIT
46
Towering Frenchman? : EIFFEL
48
Far East unit of weight : TAEL
52
With 42-Down, literally, control completely : LEAD
55
Sundae alternative : CONE
56
Majorca miss: Abbr. : SRTA
59
"Batman" fight scene word : POW
61
"Bonjour, ___ amis!" : MES
62
Compass dir. : ESE

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

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