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New York Times, Tuesday, October 4, 2005

Author:
Barry C. Silk
Editor:
Will Shortz
69-Across : Manipulative one
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Barry C. Silk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {Z} This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Silk. Tuesday freshness: 26%
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C
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O
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L
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K
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© 2005, The New York Times10/4/5 ( No. 20,419 )
Across
1
Mongrel dogs : CURS
5
Color of honey : AMBER
10
On the road : AWAY
14
Meltable food item : OLEO
15
One of the Flintstones : WILMA
16
Salad cheese : FETA
17
Keyboard key : SCROLLLOCK
19
Go smoothly : FLOW
20
No Mr. Nice Guy : MEANY
21
Joint with a cap : KNEE
22
View in northern Italy : ALPS
23
Cantankerous : ORNERY
25
Throw off track : DERAIL
27
Dates : SEES
29
16-Across is preserved in it : BRINE
32
"Surely you ___!" : JEST
35
Geronimo, e.g. : APACHE
39
Powder holder : KEG
40
Que. neighbor : ONT
41
Theme of this puzzle : TRIPLEL
42
Fraction of a joule : ERG
43
The year 56 : LVI
44
Toughen, as glass : ANNEAL
45
O.T.B. postings : ODDS
46
First president to marry while in office : TYLER
48
Dovetail : MESH
50
Memory gaps : LAPSES
54
"Enough!" : NOMORE
58
Clubmates : PALS
60
"Quickly!" : ASAP
62
Imam's faith : ISLAM
63
Door sign : EXIT
64
Where thunderstorms may occur : SQUALLLINE
66
Teeming : RIFE
67
Iraq's ___ Triangle : SUNNI
68
Mary Kay rival : AVON
69
Manipulative one : USER
70
Bakery supply : YEAST
71
Make (one's way) : WEND
Down
1
Hearst magazine, familiarly : COSMO
2
Gastric woe : ULCER
3
Played over : RERAN
4
Most quickly : SOONEST
5
Saddler's tool : AWL
6
Do some work on a dairy farm : MILK
7
Strawberry ___ : BLOND
8
Toaster, or roaster : EMCEE
9
Autumn toiler : RAKER
10
Fling : AFFAIR
11
Popular : WELLLIKED
12
On : ATOP
13
Swerves at sea : YAWS
18
Cousin of a harp : LYRE
24
Long (for) : YEARN
26
Genesis son : ABEL
28
Board game turn : SPIN
30
Encyclopedia reader from A to Z, say : NERD
31
Caviar, essentially : EGGS
32
Bump hard : JOLT
33
It's a sin : ENVY
34
Painting of flowers, e.g. : STILLLIFE
36
Barbary beast : APE
37
Secretive sort : CLAM
38
Lady of Troy : HELEN
41
Stadium rollout : TARP
45
Electrical principle : OHMSLAW
47
Parade day : EASTER
49
Make dirty : SOIL
51
Fresh-mouthed : SASSY
52
Suffix with Roman : ESQUE
53
Spot for sweaters : SAUNA
55
Oil source : OLIVE
56
Wouldn't stop : RANON
57
Touch up : EMEND
58
Lima's land : PERU
59
W.W. II enemy : AXIS
61
Gives zero stars to : PANS
65
Torched : LIT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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