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New York Times, Saturday, January 5, 2008

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
37-Across : Yes or no follower
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1085/21/20021/14/20184
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
81318151217619
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
431.5850462%
Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 26 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 28 for Ms. Gamache. Saturday freshness: 75%
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© 2008, The New York Times1/5/8 ( No. 21,242 )
Across
1
Saucily titled best-selling diet book : SKINNYBITCH
12
Center starter? : EPI
15
It's featured in "A Night at the Opera" : ILTROVATORE
16
Tickled user's response : LOL
17
Target of a school bully : TEACHERSPET
18
___-de-four (hemisphere-shaped vault) : CUL
19
3,280.84 ft. : KIL
20
Suspect's request: Abbr. : ATTY
21
Internet site graphics : WEBART
23
Chooses by divine election : ANOINTS
25
Ice remover : SCRAPER
26
Fig. on a 1970s dollar : DDE
27
Enamel strengthener : FLUORIDE
28
Has confiscated : LOSES
31
Slip fillers : BOATS
32
T preceder : TOA
33
Alliance : AXIS
34
College bookstore stock : TEXTS
35
Château ___-Brion (Bordeaux wine) : HAUT
36
Arizona senator Jon : KYL
37
Yes or no follower : SIREE
38
Abundant sources : FONTS
39
Lands in the Persian Gulf : EMIRATES
41
John of Lancaster : LOO
42
Ben Jonson poem : TOCELIA
43
N.F.L. salary limit : HARDCAP
47
Like 1, but not I : ARABIC
48
Rest : EASE
49
Peggy of "The Dukes of Hazzard" : REA
50
Not be generous with : HOG
51
They really ought to be kicked : NASTYHABITS
54
Next to nothing? : ONE
55
Sign of stress? : ACUTEACCENT
56
An alien may take it: Abbr. : ESL
57
Is a hero : SAVESTHEDAY
Down
1
University of Alaska Southeast campus site : SITKA
2
Anne of fashion : KLEIN
3
___ disco (European dance music) : ITALO
4
Reactor overseer: Abbr. : NRC
5
Cry from a daredevil cyclist : NOHANDS
6
1884 short story by Guy de Maupassant : YVETTE
7
St. ___ (Caribbean island, familiarly) : BARTS
8
Wee, to a wee 'un : ITSY
9
Foremost : TOP
10
Private dos? : CREWCUTS
11
They're straight : HETEROS
12
Yosemite Valley peak : ELCAPITAN
13
Dumped : POUREDOUT
14
Harms : ILLTREATS
22
Manhattan's place : BAR
24
Every month has one : IDES
25
Ticket : SLATE
27
Babes : FOXES
28
Where Fredo Corleone gets shot : LAKETAHOE
29
Passive-aggressive and the like : OXYMORONS
30
Common desiccant : SILICAGEL
31
Kentucky college : BEREA
34
Body found high in the Andes : TITICACA
35
Where to hang, in slang : HOOD
37
Steinbeck's birthplace : SALINAS
38
Apiece : FOREACH
40
No Yankee fan : REB
41
Light into : LASHAT
43
Governor who helped found Ohio State University : HAYES
44
Called out : CRIED
45
UnitedHealth rival : AETNA
46
Like plaster : PASTY
48
Suffix with super : ETTE
52
Explorer, e.g. : SUV
53
Dating letters : BCE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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