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New York Times, Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Author:
Bruce Haight
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Practical sort ... or anagram #1 of the only seven letters used to make this puzzle
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Bruce Haight

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {BCDFGHJKMNOPQUVWXYZ} This is puzzle # 24 for Mr. Haight. Tuesday freshness: 0%
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© 2017, The New York Times4/18/17 ( No. 24,633 )
Across
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Matches, as a bet : SEES
5
Suffix with bachelor : ETTE
9
Miss : LASS
13
Pinball game ender : TILT
14
Keisters : REARS
16
Mozart's "Se vuol ballare," for one : ARIA
17
Neck of the woods : AREA
18
Very, in music : ASSAI
19
"Darn it all!" : RATS
20
Practical sort ... or anagram #1 of the only seven letters used to make this puzzle : REALIST
22
Ballpark gates : STILES
24
Times when the French go en vacances : ETES
25
Chasing Moby Dick, say : ASEA
26
Brightest 1-Down in Aquila : ALTAIR
29
Big celeb ... or anagram #2 : ALISTER
32
Bollywood wraps : SARIS
33
Formal ceremonies : RITES
34
One of a pair of map coordinates: Abbr. : LAT
36
Awaken : STIR
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Tennis great Monica : SELES
38
Meter maid of song : RITA
39
Asian new year : TET
40
Animals rounded up in a roundup : STEER
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Foodie, e.g. : EATER
42
Sells (for) ... or anagram #3 : RETAILS
44
Standing still : ATREST
45
The black square chunk in front of 55-, 60- and 63-Across, and others : ELLS
46
Actor Morales : ESAI
47
Zionist's homeland : ISRAEL
50
More coarse ... or anagram #4 : SALTIER
54
Social reformer Jacob : RIIS
55
Californie and others : ETATS
58
"Dies ___" : IRAE
59
Vogue rival : ELLE
60
U. S. Grant rival : RELEE
61
"He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ___" (old song lyric) : EASE
62
Suffix with prank or poll : STER
63
"___ we forget ..." : LEST
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Concordes, for short : SSTS
Down
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Sky light : STAR
2
Blarney Stone land : EIRE
3
Zeno's home : ELEA
4
Result of poor ventilation : STALEAIR
5
Pink Pearl, for one : ERASER
6
Things graded by 7-Down : TESTS
7
See 6-Down : TAS
8
1970s political cause, for short : ERA
9
It may be thrown from a horse : LARIAT
10
___ Sea (former fourth-largest lake in the world) : ARAL
11
Babylon, for the ancient Hanging Gardens : SITE
12
Lip : SASS
15
Fraidy-cats : SISSIES
21
"That so?" : ITIS
23
Thomas Hardy heroine : TESS
25
Take up or let out : ALTER
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Admin. aide : ASST
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"See ya" : LATER
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Like the invitation line "Be there or be square" : TRITE
29
Roger formerly of Fox News : AILES
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Crème de la crème : ELITE
31
Deserves V.I.P. treatment : RATES
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Predigital film units : REELS
35
Piquant : TART
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Ben of "Tower Heist" : STILLER
38
They come along once in a blue moon : RARITIES
40
Store window sign : SALE
41
List-ending abbr. : ETAL
43
Come-on : TEASER
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How tableware is often sold : ASASET
46
___ Park, Colo. : ESTES
47
Seriously vexes : IRES
48
Delta deposit : SILT
49
Vex : RILE
51
Nest eggs for the golden yrs. : IRAS
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Big ___ Conference : EAST
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Roger who played a part on "Cheers" : REES
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Certain util. bill : TEL
57
Stein filler : ALE

Answer summary:
1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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