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New York Times, Friday, October 10, 2008

Author:
Kyle Mahowald
Editor:
Will Shortz
9-Across : Certain dry cell, briefly
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
183/22/20042/10/20171
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2303262
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
111.608545%
Kyle Mahowald

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 33 Missing: {BWZ} This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Mahowald. Friday freshness: 28%
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© 2008, The New York Times10/10/8 ( No. 21,521 )
Across
1
Beach nos. : SPFS
5
Scorer of a record 158 goals : HAMM
9
Certain dry cell, briefly : NICAD
14
Bucket of bolts : HEAP
15
Target of a 1989 E.P.A. investigation : ALAR
16
Language related to Winnebago : OSAGE
17
Weapon for un soldat : ARME
18
Game in which players barely bet? : STRIPPOKER
20
Makeshift : QUICKFIX
22
Drives in the country : LANES
23
Place : LIEU
24
Yupik relative : INUIT
26
Amateurs : LAYMEN
28
Emphatic response during a drill : SIRNOSIR
32
TV biz figure : ADREP
33
Preceder of what should have been said : IMEAN
34
2008 French Open champion ___ Ivanovic : ANA
35
Horizon happening : MOONSET
37
Dealmaker's delight : CLOSING
39
Club ___ : PRO
40
Rope fiber source : AGAVE
42
Beneficial thing to release : GENIE
43
Gator rival : SEMINOLE
45
Having a headline? : PARTED
46
Pulitzer-winning writer Sheehan and others : NEILS
47
Came up with an invention : LIED
48
They don't take many tricks : TREYS
50
Needs for 8-Downs : SCANNERS
54
Much of high society : JETSETTERS
56
Knowledge of body?: Abbr. : ANAT
57
Childish comeback : ARESO
58
Many a team booster : ALUM
59
Torch site : DIME
60
Up : RISEN
61
Certified letters? : USDA
62
"Pardon the Interruption" airer : ESPN
Down
1
Three-time M.V.P. of the N.B.A. finals, familiarly : SHAQ
2
Indiana town where Cole Porter was born and buried : PERU
3
TV station? : FAMILYROOM
4
Lab subject : SPECIMEN
5
Parties, say : HASFUN
6
Some singers : ALTI
7
School concerned with classes? : MARXISM
8
Hand pic, perhaps : MRI
9
Macho credo : NOPAINNOGAIN
10
Knows the plans of : ISONTO
11
Stick together : CAKE
12
Forever : AGES
13
Overseas article : DER
19
Like apples and oranges : PLURAL
21
Monitors : KEEPSANEYEON
25
Salome, to Herod Antipas : NIECE
26
Spelunking aids : LAMPS
27
Dig deeply : ADORE
29
Burial site for many French kings : SAINTDENIS
30
It doesn't come out of the stomach : INNIE
31
Spread unchecked : RAGED
33
Above ___ : ITALL
36
Solipsistic sort : EGOIST
38
Fraternity activity : SERENADE
41
Pitchers, e.g. : VESSELS
44
Real : INESSE
45
Kind of TV : PLASMA
48
Pop singer DeSario : TERI
49
Ways: Abbr. : RTES
51
"Rats!" : CRUD
52
Way up : RAMP
53
Gun of old : STEN
54
Funerary receptacle : JAR
55
___ lepton : TAU

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

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