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New York Times, Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Author:
Chuck Deodene
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
53-Across : Most difficult
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Chuck Deodene

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 35 Missing: {JQZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 35 for Mr. Deodene. Tuesday freshness: 90%
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© 2009, The New York Times10/27/9 ( No. 21,903 )
Across
1
Mountains : PEAKS
6
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" has five of these : IAMBS
11
"Spare" thing at a barbecue : RIB
14
Eskimo : INUIT
15
Instrument played with a bow : VIOLA
16
Gate guess: Abbr. : ETA
17
Solid with four triangular faces : TETRAHEDRON
19
Scoundrel : CUR
20
Lone Star Stater's northern neighbor : OKIE
21
Unnamed person : SOMEONE
23
Part of a word: Abbr. : SYL
25
Chief of staff in the Obama White House : RAHMEMANUEL
28
Alternative to an iron, in golf : WOOD
30
Sword fight, e.g. : DUEL
31
Midway between sober and drunk : TIPSY
32
"Dies ___" (hymn) : IRAE
33
Seat where people may sing 32-Across : PEW
34
Knee's place : LEG
35
Start of the Bible : GENESIS
37
Post-W.W. II demographic, informally : BOOMERS
41
Bit of wordplay : PUN
42
Boar's mate : SOW
43
x, y and z, in math : AXES
44
Commercial writers : ADMEN
47
1958 sci-fi classic, with "The" : BLOB
48
Population fig., e.g. : STAT
49
High muck-a-muck : GRANDPOOBAH
52
Lifesaving team, for short : EMS
53
Most difficult : HARDEST
54
Loretta who sang "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" : LYNN
56
Cobbler's tool : AWL
57
Shouter of this puzzle's circled sounds : CHEERLEADER
62
"Didn't I tell you?" : SEE
63
John Lennon's "Instant ___!" : KARMA
64
Explosive : NITRO
65
Word repeated after "If at first you don't succeed" : TRY
66
Bird of prey's dip : SWOOP
67
Previously, in poetry : AFORE
Down
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Quarry : PIT
2
Suffix with propyl : ENE
3
Help in buying a car : AUTOLOAN
4
Captain for Spock and McCoy : KIRK
5
Series of steps between floors : STAIR
6
"___ been there" : IVE
7
Reinforcements : AID
8
Tiny bit to eat : MORSEL
9
Flower : BLOOM
10
Redwood City's county : SANMATEO
11
Win back, as losses : RECOUP
12
Online music mart : ITUNES
13
By a hair : BARELY
18
First thing usually hit by a bowling ball : HEADPIN
22
Riddles : ENIGMAS
23
Big swallow : SWIG
24
Days of ___ : YORE
26
Colors : HUES
27
Kitten's plaint : MEW
29
Part of a pool for diving : DEEPEND
34
Like an offer that's under actual value : LOWBALL
36
Places for tanning : SUNDECKS
37
Idiot : BOOB
38
Reach as far as : EXTENDTO
39
500 sheets : REAM
40
Old trans-Atlantic speedsters : SSTS
42
Driver's caution to reduce speed : SLO
44
Shocked : AGHAST
45
Bureau part : DRAWER
46
Jacob whose ghost appears to Scrooge : MARLEY
47
Fernando ___, painter of plump figures : BOTERO
50
"Nonsense!" : PSHAW
51
Carrion consumer : HYENA
55
Innocent : NAIF
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Popular music style : EMO
59
Popular music style : RAP
60
Go wrong : ERR
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___ v. Wade : ROE

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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