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New York Times, Monday, January 19, 2009

Author:
Tracey Snyder
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
24-Across : "Hold on a ___!"
TotalDebut
11/19/2009
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.57315%
Tracey Snyder

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQVXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Snyder. Monday freshness: 44%
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© 2009, The New York Times1/19/9 ( No. 21,622 )
Across
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Prolonged attack : SIEGE
6
Pilot : FLIER
11
Used a stool : SAT
14
Counting everything : INALL
15
Pigeon's perch : LEDGE
16
In favor of : PRO
17
"Splendor in the Grass" actress : NATALIEWOOD
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Always, in verse : EER
20
Like raw film : UNEDITED
21
Fresh from the shower : CLEAN
23
One of 100 in D.C. : SEN
24
"Hold on a ___!" : SEC
25
Bleated : BAAED
27
Telecommuter's need : HOMECOMPUTER
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Remove a fastener from : UNPIN
34
Emulates Eminem : RAPS
35
Tampa Bay baseballer : RAY
36
Six years, for a 23-Across : TERM
37
"Lord, ___ this food" (grace words) : BLESS
39
Kind of car seen at Indy : PACE
40
"___ we there yet?" : ARE
41
Blockhead : CLOD
42
Second-year students, for short : SOPHS
43
Drink with a marshmallow : HOTCHOCOLATE
47
Train's place : TRACK
48
Pilot's announcement, for short : ETA
49
Some AOL communications : IMS
52
1993 Aerosmith hit with the lyric "Love is sweet misery" : CRYIN
54
Most kilt wearers : SCOTSMEN
56
Atlanta, for Delta : HUB
57
Common remote control holder : COUCHPOTATO
60
"What was ___ think?" : ITO
61
Happen as a consequence : ENSUE
62
Critic Ebert : ROGER
63
Freud subj. : PSY
64
Looks like : SEEMS
65
Stockholm native : SWEDE
Down
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It may be blocked when you have a cold : SINUS
2
Nonsensical : INANE
3
Consumed : EATEN
4
Happy : GLAD
5
Ralph who wrote "Invisible Man" : ELLISON
6
Sheep's coat : FLEECE
7
Smutty : LEWD
8
Altar vow : IDO
9
Freud subject : EGO
10
Station porters : REDCAPS
11
Ticket locale : SPEEDTRAP
12
Geographical statistic : AREA
13
Of two minds : TORN
18
News bit : ITEM
22
Romanian money : LEU
25
Feathery scarves : BOAS
26
Concert equipment : AMPS
27
That guy : HIM
28
Words to live by : CREDO
29
Apiece : EACH
30
Loaves with seeds : RYES
31
Where the 2002 Winter Olympics were held : UTAH
32
Adopted son of Claudius : NERO
33
Candidate for male modeling : PRETTYBOY
37
Voting group : BLOC
38
Combination ___ : LOCK
39
"The Fall of the House of Usher" writer : POE
41
Odds : CHANCES
42
Fixed parts of motors : STATORS
44
Dernier ___ (latest fashion) : CRI
45
Dirty old men : LECHES
46
Perched on : ATOP
49
Spitting ___ : IMAGE
50
Parceled (out) : METED
51
Sound asleep? : SNORE
52
Word that can follow the ends of 17-, 27-, 43- and 57-Across : CHIP
53
What wagon wheels may make : RUTS
54
Pond gunk : SCUM
55
Pack away : STOW
58
Long-distance number starter : ONE
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Exhaust, with "up" : USE

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

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