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New York Times, Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Author:
Susan Gelfand
Editor:
Will Shortz
Car that "really drives 'em wi-i-ild," in a 1960s song
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Susan Gelfand

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 6 for Ms. Gelfand. Tuesday freshness: 90%
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© 2012, The New York Times5/15/12 ( No. 22,834 )
Across
1
"Kinsman" of Tarzan : APE
4
Impact sound : WHAM
8
Spicy cuisine : CAJUN
13
A witch might put one on you : HEX
14
Just about forever : EONS
15
Epoch when mammals arose : EOCENE
16
Klee contemporary : ARP
17
Monte Cristo ingredient : SWISSCHEESE
19
Sharon of "Cagney & Lacey" : GLESS
21
Old Saturn model : ION
22
Scholar's deg. : PHD
23
Spelling aid? : VOODOODOLL
26
Church bells' sound : PEAL
27
Get in a row : ALIGN
28
Response at the altar : IDO
29
Mesa ___ National Park : VERDE
30
Sharon of "Valley of the Dolls" : TATE
31
Club ___ : MED
32
Tightened up : TENSED
33
Pub hub : DARTBOARD
36
Legally impedes : ESTOPS
39
Math subj. : ALG
40
Commando weapons : UZIS
44
Teakettle feature : SPOUT
45
Ga. neighbor : FLA
46
Secluded valleys : GLENS
47
Stretched to the max : TAUT
48
Where people are always putting things? : GOLFCOURSE
50
Those aboard a U.F.O. : ETS
51
"___ semper tyrannis" : SIC
52
Swab the floor again : REMOP
53
Like 17-, 23-, 33- and 48-Across : FULLOFHOLES
57
Aegean island on which Homer is said to be buried : IOS
59
N.Y. Yankees' division : ALEAST
60
Castle obstacle : MOAT
61
Big D.C. lobby : NRA
62
Gymnast Comaneci : NADIA
63
John's other half : YOKO
64
Car that "really drives 'em wi-i-ild," in a 1960s song : GTO
Down
1
Inventor's cry : AHA
2
Vine-covered passageway : PERGOLA
3
Heroic deed : EXPLOIT
4
Oil name : WESSON
5
"In what way?" : HOWSO
6
"Gimme ___!" (start of an Illinois cheer) : ANI
7
Ed.'s stack : MSS
8
Harry who co-founded Columbia Pictures : COHN
9
Server's wish : ACE
10
"Golly!" : JEEPERS
11
Expose to light : UNSHADE
12
Ribbed : NEEDLED
15
Green sci. : ECOL
18
Storage site : SILO
20
Beat by a nose : EDGEDOUT
23
Fermenting locale : VAT
24
Nuts, berries, etc., for squirrels : DIET
25
Kook : ODDBALL
26
Tick-tock maker : PENDULUM
29
Part of a chapter: Abbr. : VER
31
___ Butterworth : MRS
32
It may put someone out : TAG
34
Likely : APT
35
Norwegian king : OLAF
36
Grammy-winning Gloria : ESTEFAN
37
Burger flipper : SPATULA
38
A bit messy, as the hair : TOUSLED
41
Closing (in on) : ZEROING
42
Playfully : INSPORT
43
Montreal-to-Boston dir. : SSE
45
Nina of 1940s-'50s films : FOCH
46
Attends : GOESTO
48
Natural talent : GIFT
49
Haunted house sound : CREAK
51
Slugger Sammy : SOSA
54
China's Chou En-___ : LAI
55
"Peg ___ Heart" : OMY
56
Stall in London : LOO
58
___ Tomé : SAO

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1 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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