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New York Times, Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Author:
John Farmer
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Staff members, and what the circled letters in this puzzle represent
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John Farmer

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {KQ} This is puzzle # 15 for Mr. Farmer. Wednesday freshness: 69%
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© 2008, The New York Times12/17/8 ( No. 21,589 )
Across
1
Inundated : AWASH
6
Trailblazed : LED
9
Caught congers, e.g. : EELED
14
Entrance : MESMERIZE
16
They may have a view of a bridge : XRAYS
17
Nut in a can of premium mixed nuts : MACADAMIA
18
Bitmap bit : PIXEL
19
On occasion : EVERYSOOFTEN
21
Salon job : TINT
22
"One ___ Soldier" (antiwar song) : TIN
23
Yuppie ___ (chronic fatigue syndrome) : FLU
26
Wind up : END
27
Yesteryear, nostalgically : GOODOLDDAYS
32
Some football linemen: Abbr. : RGS
33
Hyatt alternative : OMNI
34
"A Thousand Acres" novelist Smiley : JANE
35
Order of the Arrow members : BOYSCOUTS
39
Low-___ diet : CARB
42
Competitor of uBid : EBAY
43
Emergency PC key : ESC
46
Makes something better in a big way : DOESWONDERS
50
Kind of jacket : MAO
51
Tricky : SLY
52
Leatherworker's tool : AWL
53
Singer/songwriter Aimee : MANN
54
Ducky : FINEANDDANDY
59
One of the Gandhis : RAJIV
62
Sherwood Forest minstrel : ALANADALE
63
Like lapis lazuli : AZURE
64
"Two cents plain" drink : SODAWATER
65
Staff members, and what the circled letters in this puzzle represent : NOTES
66
Celestial Seasonings product : TEA
67
Suffix with road and speed : STERS
Down
1
Electric gauge : AMMETER
2
Not staying in one's lane : WEAVING
3
Climbs : ASCENDS
4
Natty : SMART
5
Actress Lamarr : HEDY
6
Door-to-door delivery service? : LIMO
7
Opera singer Pinza : EZIO
8
Ignoring : DEAFTO
9
Lay out : EXPEND
10
Land o' leprechauns : ERIN
11
Not enforcing all the laws : LAX
12
CBS logo : EYE
13
Alternative to dial-up : DSL
15
___ Tafari (Haile Selassie) : RAS
20
___ Tuesday (53-Across's pop band) : TIL
23
"Black box" regulator: Abbr. : FAA
24
Former White House adviser Nofziger : LYN
25
Exhaust, with "up" : USE
27
Schmaltz : GOO
28
"Peg ___ Heart" : OMY
29
Turn-___ (thrills) : ONS
30
Cut into small cubes : DICED
31
Spinners of the Spinners, e.g. : DJS
35
Air gun ammo : BBS
36
U.K. honor : OBE
37
Onetime Mideast letters : UAR
38
Game show host Treadway and others : TYS
39
Music store stock : CDS
40
"You've got mail" co. : AOL
41
Spain's Carlos I or II : REY
43
Spring : EMANATE
44
"Happy Gilmore" star, 1996 : SANDLER
45
House Judiciary Committee chairman John : CONYERS
47
Gives up : WAIVES
48
"The devil looks after his ___" : OWN
49
Div. for the Mets and Marlins : NLEAST
53
Angry with : MADAT
54
Boot : FIRE
55
First-aid salve : ALOE
56
Zippo : NADA
57
Some evidence : DNA
58
Crow cousins : DAWS
59
Fled or bled : RAN
60
___ dye : AZO
61
Project : JUT

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

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