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New York Times, Friday, November 2, 2012

Author:
Derek Bowman
Editor:
Will Shortz
25-Across : Leather variety
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121.62268%
Derek Bowman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {Z} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Bowman. Friday freshness: 28%
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© 2012, The New York Times11/2/12 ( No. 23,005 )
Across
1
With 10-Across, "Down, boy!" : EASYTHERE
10
See 1-Across : TIGER
15
Something that's hardly fitting? : SQUAREPEG
16
High-culture work : OPERA
17
Crush, say : PUPPYLOVE
18
Drive home : BATIN
19
Grp. organizing booster shots : NASA
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Like some sweaters : EXERCISING
22
Very insignificant : TINY
24
Have legs : LAST
25
Leather variety : ELK
28
Piranhas : CARIBES
31
No-goodnik : RAT
34
Model quality : POISE
36
"Paint the Sky With Stars" singer : ENYA
37
"Written in the Stars" musical : AIDA
38
Battle of good versus evil, e.g. : ENDLESSSTRUGGLE
41
Like many batters : EGGY
42
Neighbor of Lat. : LITH
43
Place to get clean : REHAB
44
___ legs : SEA
45
Western phenomena : SUNSETS
47
Barrio kinsman : TIO
48
Very short note : LINE
50
Bogus : SHAM
52
1990s girl group member with a tongue piercing : SCARYSPICE
56
___ dixit : IPSE
60
Voiced admiration : OOHED
61
They're measured in 55-Downs : SNOWFALLS
63
Astrologer Dixon : JEANE
64
Be extremely conspicuous : SCREAMOUT
65
With 66-Across, like water that's behind you? : UNDER
66
See 65-Across : THEBRIDGE
Down
1
"1st and 10" airer : ESPN
2
44-Across shade : AQUA
3
Doesn't merely snack : SUPS
4
Lecture, say : YAPAT
5
Whirl : TRY
6
Capital along Interstate 15 : HELENA
7
It forms a strong bond : EPOXYRESIN
8
Topic de Freud : REVE
9
Hungarian city that has hosted two World Puzzle Championships : EGER
10
"This Boy's Life" author Wolff : TOBIAS
11
"Not for me" : IPASS
12
Not make a mistake on something : GETITRIGHT
13
Land o' blarney : ERIN
14
Was like a bell : RANG
21
Like a bell : CLEAR
23
Drink brand with a polar bear mascot : ICEE
25
Equipment for pentathletes : EPEES
26
Eraser head? : LONGE
27
1962 film starring Elvis Presley as a boxer : KIDGALAHAD
29
R&D locales: Abbr. : INSTS
30
In droves : BYTHESCORE
32
Estes was his 1956 running mate : ADLAI
33
Once-faddish aerobics regimen : TAEBO
35
Apt to artifice : SLY
37
It's always increasing : AGE
39
Turns sharply : SLUES
40
Constellation animal : URSA
45
Tom of "Tomorrow" : SNYDER
46
What's used for site-seeing? : THEWEB
49
The "you" in the lyric "I'll see you in my dreams" : IRENE
51
Heat source? : MIAMI
52
Korean liquor similar to sake : SOJU
53
Either director of 2010's "True Grit" : COEN
54
Nudge alternative : PSST
55
See 61-Across : INCH
57
Lumber : PLOD
58
Hard punch : SLUG
59
Toward the Atlantic, in Mexico : ESTE
62
A ways away : FAR

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

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