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New York Times, Monday, April 13, 2009

Author:
Natan Last
Editor:
Will Shortz
5-Across : Players in a play
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
397/17/20073/2/202410
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RebusCircleScrabbleFresh
471.6166%
Natan Last

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJZ} This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Last. Monday freshness: 97%
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© 2009, The New York Times4/13/9 ( No. 21,706 )
Across
1
Best-selling computer game of the 1990s : MYST
5
Players in a play : CAST
9
Unwanted e-mail : SPAM
13
Helicopter blade : ROTOR
15
"___ your thirst" (former Sprite slogan) : OBEY
16
Therefore : ERGO
17
Myanmar, once : BURMA
18
Al Capone, for one : RACKETEER
20
Mentalist Geller : URI
21
Little devil : IMP
23
Breadth : EXTENT
24
Not heeding danger : RECKLESS
27
Apartment that's owned, not leased : CONDO
28
Nick at ___ : NITE
29
Computer whiz : TECHIE
32
___ Antonio, Tex. : SAN
33
Jobs at Apple : STEVE
35
Corridors : HALLS
37
Widespread Internet prank involving a bait-and-switch link to a music video : RICKROLLING
41
Reason for engine trouble, perhaps : NOOIL
42
Christmas carols : NOELS
45
___ and eggs : HAM
48
Metal that gave its name to a shade of blue : COBALT
51
Writer Harte : BRET
52
Caribbean vacation spot : ARUBA
54
Mick Jagger or Bruce Springsteen : ROCKSTAR
56
Prayer beads : ROSARY
58
Parisian "yes" : OUI
59
Studio that made "Notorious" : RKO
60
Packs for bikers and hikers : RUCKSACKS
63
Young pigeon : SQUAB
65
52-Across, e.g. : ISLE
66
Cry while careering downhill : WHEE
67
Bulrush, e.g. : SEDGE
68
Fortuneteller : SEER
69
Stop or Do Not Pass : SIGN
70
Almost-failing grades : DEES
Down
1
Owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant on "The Simpsons" : MRBURNS
2
Shout in tag : YOUREIT
3
Less forgiving : STRICTER
4
___ Sawyer : TOM
5
Body in a whodunit : CORPSE
6
"The ___ Daba Honeymoon" : ABA
7
Fraction of a min. : SEC
8
Little fella : TYKE
9
Fight that might include fisticuffs : SETTO
10
Prettifies oneself, as in a mirror : PREENS
11
Order of business at a meeting : AGENDA
12
"When it rains, it pours" salt brand : MORTON
14
Train travel : RAIL
19
Be great at : EXCELIN
22
Encountered : MET
25
Bandleader Eubanks of "The Tonight Show" : KEVIN
26
Learned one : SCHOLAR
30
"2001" computer : HAL
31
Running a temperature, say : ILL
34
High-m.p.g. vehicles : ECOCARS
36
Hoity-toity sorts : SNOBS
38
Hootchy-___ : KOO
39
"Spare" part of the body : RIB
40
She says "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" in "Hamlet" : GERTRUDE
43
Problem with pipes : LEAKAGE
44
Disco lights : STROBES
45
Joel Chandler ___, creator of Uncle Remus : HARRIS
46
Excite : AROUSE
47
What a bodybuilder builds : MUSCLE
49
Undo, as laces : LOOSEN
50
Fort Worth sch. : TCU
53
Cake maker : BAKER
55
Smooch : KISS
57
Deviations of a ship's course : YAWS
61
"The Sweetheart of Sigma ___" : CHI
62
What's tapped at a beer bust : KEG
64
Letters at the end of a proof : QED

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

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