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New York Times, Saturday, October 23, 2010

Author:
Will Nediger
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
56-Across : Maximally kinky
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Will Nediger

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 28 Missing: {X} This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Nediger. Saturday freshness: 72%
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W
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L
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M
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© 2010, The New York Times10/23/10 ( No. 22,264 )
Across
1
Couples' activity once considered scandalous : WALTZING
9
Tilting setting : ARCADE
15
Chicken's comment : IDARENOT
16
Track : FOLLOW
17
"You're doing it all wrong!" : NONONONO
18
Green goof : FOOZLE
19
Like a moonstone : OPALINE
20
Fealty swearers : VASSALS
21
Circus tent raiser? : STILT
22
Binding agent : UNITER
23
Like overdramatic spoken-word versions of pop songs : SHATNERESQUE
28
Campaign creations : ADS
31
Not moved much : STOIC
32
They're plopped down : REARS
33
Old New Zealand natives : MOAS
35
Sends up : MOCKS
37
"___ Love — not me": Dickinson : TWAS
38
"I'm gone" : ADIOS
40
Farmhands, at times : HOERS
42
1969 Peace Prize grp. : ILO
43
Athlete stripped of a 1994 national title : TONYAHARDING
46
Something to get a round in : TAVERN
47
Side in a 1948 war : ARABS
51
Many of his subjects were kings : THEBARD
53
Activity requiring three walls : JAIALAI
55
"84 Charing Cross Road" author Hanff : HELENE
56
Maximally kinky : CURLIEST
57
Fendi rival : ARMANI
58
Lemony dessert : ANGELPIE
59
Conservative commentator Peggy : NOONAN
60
Place of discreet punishment : WOODSHED
Down
1
Red lovers, perhaps : WINOS
2
Assume : ADOPT
3
The Pineapple Island : LANAI
4
Chat room annoyances : TROLLS
5
Climbers' goals : ZENITHS
6
Not excluded from : INON
7
Squat : NONE
8
It's "tachin' up" in a 1964 song : GTO
9
Cause of many a split : AFFAIR
10
Farm stirrer : ROOSTER
11
Like baboons' eyes : CLOSESET
12
Subject of the 2008 book "How to Break a Terrorist" : ALZARQAWI
13
Toots : DOLL
14
Milk sources : EWES
20
Like some shirts : VNECKED
22
Part of Scotland's coat of arms : UNICORN
24
Deposit box? : ATM
25
How someone may try : TOOHARD
26
Territory in Risk : URAL
27
Shell alternative : ESSO
28
Part of a Latin succession : AMAT
29
Part of Mauritius's coat of arms : DODO
30
Fire man? : SAINTELMO
34
Lecithin source : SOYABEAN
36
Guru's title : SRI
39
Zebra zone : SAVANNA
41
Moved along slowly : SNAILED
44
Above or below preceder : HEREIN
45
Earnestly pursued things : GRAILS
48
Letter resembling an ox's head : ALEPH
49
"King Joe" composer : BASIE
50
Positioned : SITED
51
Part of a comparison : THAN
52
Heart recipient, perhaps : HERO
53
2007 Best Picture nominee with a mythological name : JUNO
54
Talos hurled huge stones at it : ARGO
56
Avian call : CAW

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

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