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New York Times, Friday, October 13, 2006

Author:
Eric Berlin
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Across : Frightener
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
436/23/200211/29/20203
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1413521521
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
361.5223969%
Eric Berlin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 27 for Mr. Berlin. Friday freshness: 93%
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© 2006, The New York Times10/13/6 ( No. 20,793 )
Across
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It's just one thing after another : PARADE
7
Sitcom character in apartment 5B : KRAMER
13
No longer minding one's business? : RETIRED
14
Animator : LIVENER
16
Vent, e.g. : ORIFICE
17
Student of Titian : ELGRECO
18
Group that shares its name with a 1930 Howard Hughes film : HELLSANGELS
20
Series : RUN
21
Regard : ESTEEM
22
Connections : INS
23
Frightener : OGRE
24
Bring (up) : DREDGE
26
Subject of an encoded message, maybe : TRYST
27
Aircraft engine holder : POD
30
General Mills cereal trademark : TRIXRABBIT
32
Adam or Eve vis-à-vis 6-Down : EVICTEE
35
Deprive by force : BEREAVE
36
Gun-toting types : DESPERADOS
38
Matter at court : RES
39
Cacophonous : AROAR
40
High points : MAXIMA
43
P.O. items : LTRS
44
Abbr. in a personals ad : SWF
45
Ducks : DODGES
49
George Sand's "Elle et ___" : LUI
50
Torch carriers : SPOTWELDERS
52
Kind of set : ERECTOR
54
___ Novotny, 1950's-60's Czech president : ANTONIN
55
Frederick IX's land : DENMARK
56
Some wide-angle pics : SCENICS
57
Doesn't seem right : STINKS
58
Qajar dynasty's domain : PERSIA
Down
1
Subject of the biography "Road to Peace" : PERES
2
Not straight up : ATILT
3
Went through, as someone else's drawers : RIFLED
4
Person in the morning : ARISER
5
32.81 feet : DECAMETER
6
See 32-Across : EDEN
7
Bedside container : KLEENEXBOX
8
Moon valleys : RILLS
9
Some baseball stats: Abbr. : AVGS
10
___ de Glace, glacier on the north slope of Mont Blanc : MER
11
Athlete's snack : ENERGYBAR
12
Indefinitely repeatable : RECURSIVE
13
Mies van der ___ : ROHE
15
1960's girl group, with "the" : RONETTES
19
1958 Vincente Minnelli film : GIGI
23
"Awake, arise ___ forever fallen!": Milton : ORBE
25
Studio behind "American Beauty" : DREAMWORKS
26
Smear : TAR
27
Like bicycles and organs : PEDALLED
28
Negotiation preceders : OVERTURES
29
Addle : DISORIENT
31
Staying someplace temporarily, after "in" : RESIDENCE
33
Calculating types : CPAS
34
Three times: Prefix : TER
37
Potty : DAFT
41
Snake, e.g. : MOLTER
42
Options : ADDONS
44
Picnic implement : SPORK
46
Magicians' magazine since 1936 : GENII
47
The woman in "An Unmarried Woman" : ERICA
48
Figs. with two hyphens : SSNS
50
A "South Park" kid : STAN
51
Mud dauber, e.g. : WASP
53
Year Louis III became Holy Roman emperor : CMI

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

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