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New York Times, Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Author:
Peter A. Collins
Editor:
Will Shortz
70-Across : Rick with the 1976 #1 hit "Disco Duck"
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Peter A. Collins

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Collins. Wednesday freshness: 89%
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© 2007, The New York Times3/14/7 ( No. 20,945 )
Across
1
Enlighten : TEACH
6
A couple CBS spinoffs : CSIS
10
1972 Broadway musical : PIPPIN
14
Metal giant : ALCOA
15
Evict : OUST
16
Area : ZONE
17
Surface again, as a road : RETOP
18
Pirate or Padre, briefly : NLER
19
Camera feature : ZOOM
20
Barracks artwork, perhaps : PINUPPICTURE
22
River to the Ligurian Sea : ARNO
23
Keg necessity : TAP
24
"... ___ he drove out of sight" : ERE
25
___ St. Louis, Ill. : EAST
27
Preen : PRIMP
29
Greek peak : MTOSSA
33
Vice president after Hubert : SPIRO
36
Patient wife of Sir Geraint : ENID
38
Action to an ante : UPPING
39
Gain ___ : ALAP
40
French artist Odilon ___ : REDON
42
Grape for winemaking : PINOT
43
Single-dish meal : POTPIE
45
Broad valley : DALE
46
See 21-Down : NEWS
47
Artery inserts : STENTS
49
Offspring : YOUNG
51
Mexican mouse catcher : GATO
53
Medical procedure, in brief : MRI
54
"Wheel of Fortune" option : SPIN
57
Animal with striped legs : OKAPI
60
Editorial : OPINIONPIECE
63
It gets bigger at night : PUPIL
64
"Hold your horses!" : WAIT
65
Idiots : JERKS
66
Europe/Asia border river : URAL
67
Suffix with launder : ETTE
68
Leaning : ATILT
69
Brownback and Obama, e.g.: Abbr. : SENS
70
Rick with the 1976 #1 hit "Disco Duck" : DEES
71
Yegg's targets : SAFES
Down
1
Mastodon trap : TARPIT
2
"Mefistofele" soprano : ELENA
3
Misbehave : ACTUP
4
Pen : COOP
5
More pleased : HAPPIER
6
Treated with disdain : CONTEMNED
7
Enterprise crewman : SULU
8
Rhone feeder : ISERE
9
Many a webcast : STREAM
10
Mushroom, for one : PIZZATOPPING
11
Unfortunate : POOR
12
Nevada's state tree : PINON
13
Disney fish : NEMO
21
Colonial figure with 46-Across : CRIER
26
Poker champion Ungar : STU
27
Self-medicating excessively : POPPINGPILLS
28
March 14, to mathematicians : PIDAY
30
Book part : SPINE
31
Powder, e.g. : SNOW
32
007 and others: Abbr. : AGTS
33
Drains : SAPS
34
Stove feature : PILOT
35
Feet per second, e.g. : RATE
37
Italian range : DOLOMITES
41
Prefix with surgery : NEURO
44
Captain's announcement, for short : ETA
48
Tucked away : STOWED
50
Stealthy fighters : NINJAS
52
Sedative : OPIATE
54
Letter feature : SERIF
55
Jam : PICKLE
56
Settles in : NESTS
57
Symphony or sonata : OPUS
58
Japanese city bombed in W.W. II : KURE
59
Beelike : APIAN
61
Evening, in ads : NITE
62
Religious artwork : PIETA

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

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