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New York Times, Tuesday, April 10, 2001

Author:
Kevin McCann
Editor:
Will Shortz
72-Across : 1914 battle line
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Kevin McCann

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FQ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. McCann. Tuesday freshness: 70%
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© 2001, The New York Times4/10/1 ( No. 18,781 )
Across
1
Hope/Crosby's "Road to ___" : BALI
5
Festoon : SWAG
9
Played charades : MIMED
14
A ___ apple : ASIN
15
Kind of phone : CELL
16
Where Fiats are made : ITALY
17
Actress Talbot : NITA
18
Up to the task : ABLE
19
Host of TV's "Cosmos" : SAGAN
20
"Star Wars" character : JARJARBINKS
23
Pittsburgh-to-Buffalo dir. : NNE
24
Actor Ryan : ONEAL
25
Lasso : NOOSE
27
Recording studio apparatus : MIXER
31
Celestial object : PULSAR
34
Leatherworker's tool : AWL
37
In love with oneself : VAIN
39
Mrs. Gorbachev : RAISA
40
Puerto Rican-born golf champion : CHICHIRODRIGUEZ
44
Ginza locale : TOKYO
45
See 47-Across : STAB
46
Fannie ___ : MAE
47
Weapons that 45-Across : SPEARS
49
Irving Berlin's "Blue ___" : SKIES
52
Angry states : SNITS
54
Actress Davis : GEENA
58
Place to relax : SPA
60
"Queen of Outer Space" star, 1958 : ZSAZSAGABOR
64
The "W" in R.W.E. : WALDO
66
Dick Cheney, e.g. : VEEP
67
No brainiac : DOPE
68
Squirrel's nugget : ACORN
69
Actress Miles : VERA
70
Responsibility : ONUS
71
Them, essentially : NOTUS
72
1914 battle line : YSER
73
"Peer ___" : GYNT
Down
1
Earl Scruggs's instrument : BANJO
2
Kind of flu : ASIAN
3
Unit of petrol : LITRE
4
Stuck : INAJAM
5
Battle memento : SCAR
6
Jim who wrote "MacArthur Park" : WEBB
7
"___ want for Christmas ..." : ALLI
8
Senator in space : GLENN
9
Ship on which W.W. II ended, 9/2/45 : MISSOURI
10
Call ___ day : ITA
11
Element found in flashbulbs : MAGNESIUM
12
Spirit : ELAN
13
Unit of force : DYNE
21
"When We Were Kings" subject : ALI
22
Keystone character : KOP
26
Smelting byproduct : SLAG
28
Last Pope Gregory : XVI
29
They're often lent : EARS
30
Causes to bring out the National Guard : RIOTS
32
On the briny : ASEA
33
Demolish : RAZE
34
Substitutes (for) : ACTS
35
Hit upside the head : WHOP
36
Adores : LIKESALOT
38
Fargo's locale: Abbr. : NDAK
41
Greenish blue : CYAN
42
Things in view : HORIZONS
43
Diamond stat : RBI
48
Peter, Patrick and Paul: Abbr. : STS
50
McMuffin ingredient : EGG
51
Pirate : SEADOG
53
Streetwise : SAVVY
55
Companion magazine to Jet : EBONY
56
"___ intended" : NOPUN
57
"Give it ___!" : AREST
58
Park lake denizen : SWAN
59
Flamenco guitarist ___ de Lucía : PACO
61
Zorro's marks : ZEES
62
Dried up : SERE
63
On ___ with : APAR
65
Actress Joanne : DRU

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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