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New York Times, Monday, May 30, 2011

Author:
Michael Barnhart
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
"Good luck!" ... and a hint to 17-, 25-, 39- and 51-Across
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Michael Barnhart

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {Q} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Barnhart. Monday freshness: 70%
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© 2011, The New York Times5/30/11 ( No. 22,483 )
Across
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House members, for short : REPS
5
Seethe : BOIL
9
Works the field : TILLS
14
Loads : ALOT
15
___ Major (constellation) : URSA
16
To date : ASYET
17
Bonding material for bathroom floors : TILEGROUT
19
Overused, as a saying : TRITE
20
Premature : EARLY
21
Piquancy : ZEST
23
Hoops grp. : NBA
24
Messenger ___ : RNA
25
Playground fixture : JUNGLEGYM
27
1959 Spanish-language Top 40 hit : LABAMBA
30
"___ the season to be jolly" : TIS
31
Get on in years : AGE
32
"Beowulf," e.g. : EPIC
35
Civil rights grp. : NAACP
39
Donations : CHARITABLEGIFTS
43
One of the Carpenters, in 1970s pop : KAREN
44
Gas in advertising signs : NEON
45
Prefix with cycle : TRI
46
Toward the back of a boat : AFT
48
Animals not to be trusted? : WEASELS
51
Upholsterer's tool : STAPLEGUN
56
Mal de ___ : MER
57
Hold the deed to : OWN
58
Place to get an M.A. or Ph.D. : UNIV
59
Not to be believed : DODGY
61
UPS rival : FEDEX
63
"Good luck!" ... and a hint to 17-, 25-, 39- and 51-Across : BREAKALEG
66
Get up : ARISE
67
"___ does it" : EASY
68
"The Little Red Hen" response : NOTI
69
Glasses, informally : SPECS
70
Indigo and others : DYES
71
Giant gulp, as from a bottle : SWIG
Down
1
Snitch : RAT
2
"Night" author Wiesel : ELIE
3
Arctic animal : POLARBEAR
4
Breastbones : STERNA
5
Lay in a grave : BURY
6
Spanish gold : ORO
7
Maker of the Rodeo and Trooper : ISUZU
8
Approach dark : LATEN
9
Being a snitch : TATTLING
10
Tel Aviv's home: Abbr. : ISR
11
Bearing false witness : LYING
12
Allow to pass : LETBY
13
Good thing to build up or blow off : STEAM
18
Glitz : GLAM
22
The Beatles' ___ Pepper : SGT
25
Where 7-Down is based : JAPAN
26
Actor Morales : ESAI
27
Be deficient in : LACK
28
Turkish title : AGHA
29
"Wanna ___?" : BET
33
"May ___ of service?" : IBE
34
Entertainer at a kid's birthday party : CLOWN
36
Sunset remnant : AFTERGLOW
37
Bottom-row PC key : CTRL
38
Pitchfork-shaped letters : PSIS
40
Harvest : REAP
41
Streams of arrivals : INFLUXES
42
U-turn from WSW : ENE
47
Two hours before noon : TEN
49
One way to run : AMOK
50
Many four-doors : SEDANS
51
Davenports : SOFAS
52
Pipsqueak : TWERP
53
Actress MacDowell : ANDIE
54
Mocked : GIBED
55
Bit of light that's harmful to the skin : UVRAY
59
Calendar units : DAYS
60
Himalayan beast : YETI
62
Top-row PC key : ESC
64
Suffix with Canton : ESE
65
Band booking : GIG

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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