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New York Times, Thursday, October 13, 2016

Author:
Don Gagliardo and Zhouqin Burnikel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Poet who wrote "You may shoot me with your words, / You may cut me with your eyes"
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Don Gagliardo
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Zhouqin Burnikel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JKQXZ} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Gagliardo. This is puzzle # 35 for Ms. Burnikel. Thursday freshness: 94%
Constructor notes:
While doing a search, Don saw the phrase GARBAGE BAG, and noticed how the BAG was repeated in sequence and together in the preceding ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Some fun finds, phrases where one word is contained in the other. I'd seen ALE in PALE ALE and AVERAGE AGE used in a similar way ... read more
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© 2016, The New York Times10/13/16 ( No. 24,446 )
Across
1
Much police paperwork : REPORTS
8
From Kigali, e.g. : RWANDAN
15
Intrinsically : ATHEART
16
French locale of fierce W.W. I fighting : ARGONNE
17
Baked chocolaty treat : WHOOPIEPIE
18
Hefty item : GARBAGEBAG
19
Arabic name part : BIN
20
Nos. at the beach : SPFS
22
Blew one's horn : TOOTED
23
Crushed, as a test : ACED
25
Creative works utilizing the landscape : EARTHART
27
Supermarket section : DELI
28
"Caddyshack" director : RAMIS
30
D.C. pro : NAT
31
Cleaner brand : DYSON
32
Ready to retire : SLEEPY
34
Part of N.Y.C. once derisively called Hell's Hundred Acres : SOHO
36
Yank : TUG
37
Angered : MADEMAD
39
Draft choice : PALEALE
41
Ft. Benning training facility : OCS
44
Early 20th-century abdicator : TSAR
46
Magical creatures in Jewish folklore : GOLEMS
50
Tracks : RAILS
52
One who keeps the beat? : COP
54
Lay out differently, in a way : REMAP
55
"___ la Douce" (1963 film) : IRMA
56
Public recognition : SHOUTOUT
58
Apportion : METE
59
Roll the dice, so to speak : GAMBLE
61
Not in use : FREE
63
Ocasek of the Cars : RIC
64
About 25 years, for N.F.L. players : AVERAGEAGE
66
What a spray may provide : INSTANTTAN
68
Ones shaking to the music? : MARACAS
69
Comic legend : STANLEE
70
Chic : INSTYLE
71
N.B.A. team since 2008 : THUNDER
Down
1
Places for oysters and clams : RAWBARS
2
On the up and up : ETHICAL
3
Basic linguistic unit : PHONEME
4
Antipoverty agcy. created under L.B.J. : OEO
5
Some performances at the Apollo : RAPS
6
Baloney : TRIPE
7
Two-time Wimbledon winner Edberg : STEFAN
8
Lively piano tune : RAG
9
One of the seven deadly sins : WRATH
10
Prefix with business : AGRO
11
Emily Dickinson, self-descriptively : NOBODY
12
Aid in genealogy : DNATEST
13
Poet who wrote "You may shoot me with your words, / You may cut me with your eyes" : ANGELOU
14
Bereft of : NEEDING
21
Sp. ladies : SRAS
24
Per ___ : DIEM
26
Corvette feature : TTOP
29
Old-fashioned fashion accessories : SPATS
31
Sorrowful state : DOLOR
33
Abbr. by a golf tee : YDS
35
Halloween costume : HAG
38
Per : EACH
40
___ sch. : ELEM
41
Crane construction? : ORIGAMI
42
Vacation vehicle : CARAVAN
43
Keeps on low, say : SIMMERS
45
It may be slated : ROOF
47
___ City (memorable film destination) : EMERALD
48
Something never seen at night : MATINEE
49
Spirit : SPECTER
51
Small test subject : LABRAT
53
Stickler : PURIST
56
"Love Story" novelist : SEGAL
57
First extra inning : TENTH
60
Like some tablecloths : LACY
62
He married two Hittites to the chagrin of his parents, in Genesis : ESAU
65
Suffix with legal : ESE
67
Channel that became Heartland in 2013 : TNN

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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