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New York Times, Saturday, October 10, 2009

Author:
Natan Last
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
43-Across : Graffiti, say
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Natan Last

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Last. Saturday freshness: 12%
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P
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© 2009, The New York Times10/10/9 ( No. 21,886 )
Across
1
Is an accessory for : ABETS
6
Ghost, e.g. : WORDGAME
14
Redness remover : VISINE
16
Tough : HOOLIGAN
17
Kind of statue or status : ICONIC
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Close : IMMINENT
19
Slangy pronoun : DAT
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It means too much to a maestro : TROPPO
22
"None shall slumber ___ sleep": Isaiah 5:27 : NOR
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Admission of sorts : MEACULPA
25
It's around a yard around Buckingham Palace : METRE
27
Bust of Pallas, to Poe's raven : PERCH
28
Some mouths : DELTAS
30
"___ the Viking," 1989 film starring Tim Robbins : ERIK
31
Revolutionary dance move? : PIROUETTE
34
Actor Efron of "High School Musical" : ZAC
35
Service aces? : PARSONS
36
Part of it is often in the clouds : ALP
38
"I'm listening, bro" : LAYITONME
40
It might follow a 31-Across : PLIE
41
Release with a pop : UNSNAP
42
Where locks are changed? : SALON
43
Graffiti, say : MARKS
46
Tony winner between "Avenue Q" and "Jersey Boys" : SPAMALOT
48
Time, in Torino : ORA
49
Barely bites : NIPSAT
50
They can take the pressure: Abbr. : RNS
52
Real : BONAFIDE
55
Comment from the clueless : NOIDEA
57
"This looks like the end for me!" : IMAGONER
58
Like the best bet : SUREST
59
Excuse for a teacher : LATEPASS
60
Not drawn out : TERSE
Down
1
Keen : AVID
2
Like Japan's national diet : BICAMERAL
3
Dark matter? : ESOTERICA
4
Spice holder : TIN
5
Tell : SNITCH
6
Ones who are too big for their britches : WHIPPERSNAPPERS
7
Willy Wonka's work force : OOMPALOOMPAS
8
QB Tony : ROMO
9
Sixth-century year : DLI
10
It's played with two hands : GIN
11
One making the cut? : AGENT
12
Reeve's charge : MANOR
13
Between, to Batista : ENTRE
15
Shade for shades : ECRU
21
What the Constitution is called : OLDIRONSIDES
24
Comic strip outburst : ACK
25
Fannie ___ (some securities) : MAES
26
Ending for a record : EST
27
Candy acquired while holding one's chin up? : PEZ
29
Often-carried thing : TUNE
31
Congratulates, in a way : PATS
32
Hard thing to pull off : TALLORDER
33
Officer who was still hunting in the 1920s-'30s : ELIOTNESS
35
Basting aids : PINS
37
With 40-Down, friend you may have never met : PEN
39
Good laugh : YUK
40
See 37-Down : PAL
42
Opted not to play : SATOUT
43
Shell alternative : MOBIL
44
Range attraction : AROMA
45
Charged : RANAT
47
Staffs : MANS
49
Noël Coward title woman "from Argentina" : NINA
51
Be enough for : SATE
53
It might be checked at the door : AGE
54
Many a metrosexual : FOP
56
Really ruffle : IRE

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

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