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New York Times, Monday, January 4, 2010

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
63-Across : Select the best and leave the rest
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Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 52 for Ms. Gamache. Monday freshness: 80%
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© 2010, The New York Times1/4/10 ( No. 21,972 )
Across
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Tiddlywinks or tag : GAME
5
Leftover cloth bit : SCRAP
10
Moon-landing vehicles, for short : LEMS
14
The Bard of ___ (Shakespeare) : AVON
15
Michelangelo masterpiece : PIETA
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"Peter Pan" pirate : SMEE
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Reaction of a sore loser : SOURGRAPES
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Boxer Oscar ___ Hoya : DELA
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Bosom buddy : CRONY
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___-hour traffic : RUSH
23
Lung protector : RIB
24
Food from heaven : MANNA
25
Head honcho : TOPBANANA
27
Shelley's "___ to the West Wind" : ODE
28
Cartoonish baby cry : WAH
30
Gives in (to) : YIELDS
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Scotch and ___ : SODA
33
Rioter's haul : LOOT
36
Triumphant cries : TADAS
37
Be productive ... or what the answers at 17-, 25-, 53- and 63-Across do? : BEARFRUIT
40
Hate : ABHOR
43
Highlands denials : NAES
44
Sounds of amazement : OOHS
48
Country music's Tritt : TRAVIS
50
Mattress problem : SAG
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"Just kidding!" : NOT
53
They protect car buyers : LEMONLAWS
56
City NW of Orlando : OCALA
58
Reactions to adorable babies : AWS
59
Accessory that might say "Miss Universe" : SASH
60
"The ___ Bunch" of 1970s TV : BRADY
61
AARP part: Abbr. : RETD
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Select the best and leave the rest : CHERRYPICK
66
Earl ___ tea : GREY
67
Seoul's home : KOREA
68
Melville work set in Tahiti : OMOO
69
Brontë's Jane : EYRE
70
Boiling indication : STEAM
71
Puts in stitches : SEWS
Down
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Windbag's output : GAS
2
Guacamole need : AVOCADO
3
Lamented the loss of : MOURNED
4
Energy company that filed for bankruptcy in 2001 : ENRON
5
Energetic for one's age : SPRY
6
Org. in "The Bourne Identity" : CIA
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Copy, for short : REPRO
8
Enjoyed immensely : ATEUP
9
Elapse : PASSBY
10
'60s hallucinogen : LSD
11
Valuable green stone : EMERALD
12
Bill & ___ Gates Foundation : MELINDA
13
"Chilean" fish : SEABASS
18
Munch on like a mouse : GNAW
22
Jean-Bertrand Aristide's country : HAITI
24
May and June: Abbr. : MOS
25
Locust tree feature : THORN
26
"That's swell!" : NEATO
29
Lobster ___ Newburg : ALA
32
From the beginning, in Latin : ABOVO
34
Arthur Miller's "Death ___ Salesman" : OFA
35
Lock of hair : TRESS
38
Brockovich and Moran : ERINS
39
It's between Can. and Mex. : USA
40
On the loose : ATLARGE
41
Anheuser-Busch, for one : BREWERY
42
Pet with cheek pouches : HAMSTER
45
Words after stop or turn : ONADIME
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"My heavens!" : HOLYCOW
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RR stop : STA
49
Pants that are dressier than jeans : SLACKS
51
Graphically violent : GORY
54
___ in the dark : ASHOT
55
Question of location : WHERE
57
Mafia bosses : CAPOS
60
Stoker who created Dracula : BRAM
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It may have made a blonde blonde : DYE
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Stephen of "The Crying Game" : REA
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Bout enders, briefly : KOS

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

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