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New York Times, Monday, July 23, 2012

Author:
Lynn Lempel
Editor:
Will Shortz
67-Across : Tennis's Sampras
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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CircleScrabblePGramPre‑WSFresh
91.611220%
Lynn Lempel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 61 for Ms. Lempel. Monday freshness: 43%
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© 2012, The New York Times7/23/12 ( No. 22,903 )
Across
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Rounded cathedral feature : APSE
5
Undue speed : HASTE
10
Bowled over : AWED
14
Miller ___ (low-calorie beer) : LITE
15
Banks in the Baseball Hall of Fame : ERNIE
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Sheltered bay : COVE
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Equipment to help a patient breathe : OXYGENTANK
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Regatta group : CREW
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Prince who became Henry V : HAL
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"___ I care" : ASIF
22
Jules who wrote "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" : VERNE
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Floor measurements : AREAS
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"Sorry to hear that" : SUCHAPITY
28
Breath mint in a roll, informally : CERT
30
Events with baying hounds : HUNTS
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Foray : SORTIE
34
Small bit, as of cream : DAB
35
Lab eggs : OVA
38
H. G. Wells novel ... with a hint to this puzzle's circled words : THEINVISIBLEMAN
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Pea holder : POD
43
Completely : ALL
44
In recent days : LATELY
45
Trees that sway in a hurricane : PALMS
48
Religious offshoot : SECT
49
Went to pieces : FELLAPART
52
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" poet : KEATS
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Resell unfairly, as tickets : SCALP
57
First-rate : AONE
59
Flapper's neckwear : BOA
60
Musical sound : TONE
61
Vishnu or Shiva : HINDUDEITY
64
Fashion designer Cassini : OLEG
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"It's ___ of the times" : ASIGN
66
Some poems from 52-Across : ODES
67
Tennis's Sampras : PETE
68
Broadway honors : TONYS
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Captain in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" : NEMO
Down
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___ State (Hawaii's nickname) : ALOHA
2
Film studio behind "Toy Story" and "Up" : PIXAR
3
Fashion : STYLE
4
Brain wave readout, for short : EEG
5
"Cluck, cluck" makers : HENS
6
Monet or Manet : ARTIST
7
Megamistake : SNAFU
8
Sn, to a chemist : TIN
9
Mouse spotter's cry : EEK
10
Say yes to : ACCEPT
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Troubling : WORRISOME
12
Datebook notation : EVENT
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"___ Defeats Truman" (famous 1948 headline) : DEWEY
18
Enter slowly and carefully, as a parking spot : EASEIN
22
Many an airport shuttle : VAN
24
Play opener : ACTI
26
Spiced tea : CHAI
27
Telescope serviced by astronauts : HUBBLE
29
Change significantly : REVAMP
31
Big inits. in fuel additives : STP
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"Well, whaddya know!" : OHO
33
Mars, with "the" : REDPLANET
34
Web access inits. : DSL
36
Kilmer of "The Doors" : VAL
37
One or more : ANY
39
Rick's beloved in "Casablanca" : ILSA
40
Was without : LACKED
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Suffix with major : ETTE
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Declare to be true : ALLEGE
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Swimming unit : LAP
48
Hardly hip : STODGY
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Camera lens setting : FSTOP
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Place to learn in Lille : ECOLE
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Carted off to jail : RANIN
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Tolerate : ABIDE
54
Emblem carved on a pole : TOTEM
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Permission : SAYSO
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Convent residents : NUNS
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Place for a rabbit in a magic act : HAT
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Equal: Prefix : ISO
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Immeasurably long time : EON

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

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