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New York Times, Saturday, November 7, 2009

Author:
Bob Klahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
5-Across : Squarely
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
601/29/19945/22/201110
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1313121426
CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.5746577%
Bob Klahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JX} This is puzzle # 58 for Mr. Klahn. Saturday freshness: 57%
Jim Horne notes:

This is generally considered to be the most difficult puzzle of 2009.

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© 2009, The New York Times11/7/9 ( No. 21,914 )
Across
1
Peter who wrote "Underboss" : MAAS
5
Squarely : SPANG
10
Landlocked Muslim land : MALI
14
"Down ___" (1967 Janis Joplin song) : ONME
15
Cheyenne Kid portrayer : LARUE
16
Where Aldous Huxley taught George Orwell : ETON
17
"Little Diane" singer, 1962 : DION
18
___ blue, color named after a first daughter : ALICE
19
Like some friends : FAST
20
"That's really cheap!" : ITSASTEAL
22
West Coast N.F.L.'er : NINER
23
Insubstantial : FROTHY
24
Appeal from a diplomat : DEMARCHE
26
Mississippi river named by La Salle : YAZOO
27
Local operation? : UNIONSHOP
28
En ___ (by the rules: Fr.) : REGLE
30
Well-armed predators? : OCTOPI
31
Sink : SET
34
Base of a column : SUM
35
Lopsided : WRY
36
Flushed : RED
37
As different as night and day, e.g. : CLICHE
39
The Who's "Live at ___," 1970 double-platinum album : LEEDS
41
Harem slave : ODALISQUE
43
A slew : RAFTS
47
Don Quixote type : ROMANTIC
48
Single shot : PELLET
49
Flivver : CRATE
50
Reluctantly accept : GIVEWAYTO
52
See 55-Across : HART
53
World capital at the foot of Mount Vitosha : SOFIA
54
Remark from a draft dodger? : BRRR
55
With 52-Across, lead female role in TV's "Peter Gunn" : EDIE
56
Dead ringer? : KNELL
57
Wall-plastering material : LOAM
58
Hubbub : ROAR
59
Harmonize : AGREE
60
It may be found near a drain : EDDY
Down
1
Reshape : MODIFY
2
Dancer in a suite : ANITRA
3
"A Tale of Love and Darkness" author, 2003 : AMOSOZ
4
"Damn Yankees" chorister : SENATOR
5
Dull blue-gray : SLATY
6
Cadaverous : PALE
7
Strauss heroine from classical myth : ARIADNE
8
Cores : NUCLEI
9
"Oh, I don't know" : GEE
10
Selfish : MEFIRST
11
Not likely to go with the flow : ATANCHOR
12
Despair : LOSEHOPE
13
Doughty : INTREPID
21
Low finish? : SHOESHINE
22
"The Bungalow Mystery" solver : NANCYDREW
25
English sculptor Henry : MOORE
27
1805 Napoleonic victory site : ULM
29
Partygoer : GUEST
31
Hard-hit line drive : SCORCHER
32
The first complete navigation of the Amazon was in search of this : ELDORADO
33
Liqueur reputedly named for a noblewoman's chambermaid : TIAMARIA
35
Baby : WEE
38
Racket : CLATTER
39
"Doctor Faustus" character : LUCIFER
40
Ready to move : SALABLE
42
Chinese meditative practice : QIGONG
44
Casting option : FLYROD
45
Four-note chord : TETRAD
46
Not at all fair : STORMY
48
Artist Rembrandt : PEALE
51
Flagitious : VILE
53
Music genre of the English Beat and the Specials : SKA

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

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