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New York Times, Thursday, November 19, 2009

Author:
Tyler Hinman and Jeremy Horwitz
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
56-Across : Places to act quickly, for short
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Jeremy Horwitz

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 18 for Mr. Hinman. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Horwitz. Thursday freshness: 99%
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© 2009, The New York Times11/19/9 ( No. 21,926 )
Across
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Like some jackets : LINED
6
Symbol in a Riemann sum : SIGMA
11
Introspective question : AMI
14
It joins I-10 in Jacksonville and I-90 in Boston : USONE
15
Doesn't give up without a fight : TRIES
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___ juice (milk) : MOO
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"Z" director, 1969 : COSTAGAVRAS
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Word of praise in Paris : BON
20
Kimberly-Clark brand : KLEENEX
21
Soave, for one : DRYWINE
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"Totally" : IAGREE
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Spats : QUARRELS
25
Some honor society letters : ETAS
26
Tan : WHUP
28
Old Greek dialect : IONIC
29
Spanish chess piece : REY
30
Hot drink : CHAI
31
"Are you game?" : WANTTO
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"M" director, 1931 : FRITZLANG
34
El Paso neighbor : JUAREZ
37
Developer's needs, for short : NEGS
38
Big chunk of money : WAD
41
Cause of an awakening : APNEA
42
Italy's L'___ Vogue magazine : UOMO
43
Something you always need directions to use? : VANE
44
Some Beverly Hills tourist purchases : STARMAPS
46
"Taken" star, 2008 : NEESON
48
Injuriously annoys : MOLESTS
49
Try to steal the basketball, say : REACHIN
50
Google had one in 2004: Abbr. : IPO
51
"W." director, 2008 : OLIVERSTONE
53
Tiresome sort : NAG
54
Out of it : DAZED
55
"___ has no age": Picasso : YOUTH
56
Places to act quickly, for short : ERS
57
Plant ___ (give an idea) : ASEED
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Museum-loving : ARTSY
Down
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More Irish? : LUCKIER
2
Quarantine : ISOLATE
3
Posy : NOSEGAY
4
Steps in : ENTERS
5
Silas of the Continental Congress : DEANE
6
Record label whose house band was Booker T. & the M.G.'s : STAX
7
Hip-hop producer Gotti : IRV
8
Encircle with a belt : GIRDUP
9
Anne whose real-life husband played her ex on "Rhoda" : MEARA
10
Hearers of Jonah's prophecy : ASSYRIANS
11
All around : AMBIENT
12
Like the forest in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" : MOONLIT
13
"Le Rhinocéros" playwright Eugène : IONESCO
18
"Aw, shucks" : GEEWHIZ
22
Double-cross, e.g. : WRONG
24
Subway alternative : QUIZNOS
27
It should go on a head : HAT
30
A&W beverage : CREAMSODA
31
One who may be in charge of a team : WAGONER
32
Partner in many a French company : FRERE
33
NASA moon lander : LEM
34
Disney princess : JASMINE
35
Adequate for the job : UPTOPAR
36
Cousins : ANALOGS
38
Complete failure : WASHOUT
39
Picks for a position : ANOINTS
40
Brian of "First Blood" : DENNEHY
42
Enlarge : UPSIZE
43
What an arrow may represent : VECTOR
45
Titan who fetched apples for Hercules : ATLAS
47
Breeze on a college campus : EASYA
49
Comedian Foxx : REDD
52
Civic center? : VEE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later.

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