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New York Times, Friday, December 1, 2006

Author:
Mike Nothnagel
Editor:
Will Shortz
16-Across : Slave
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
569/4/20064/20/20125
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
442272566
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
431.6633377%
Mike Nothnagel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Nothnagel. Friday freshness: 39%
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© 2006, The New York Times12/1/6 ( No. 20,842 )
Across
1
Hit Japanese TV import : IRONCHEF
9
Part of a B major scale : ASHARP
15
Celebrated smiler : MONALISA
16
Slave : TOILER
17
Place to put buttons : ELEVATOR
18
High-priority task : MUSTDO
19
Calm : ALLAY
20
They're acquired in some unions : STEPSONS
22
Manager of a two-party system? : NOAH
23
Tassels, e.g. : TRIM
25
Bribe : SOP
26
___ case : INNO
27
Screen : HIDE
28
Bring down : ABASE
30
Follower of Mao? : TSE
31
It goes around at a construction site : CEMENTMIXER
33
"Interesting ..." : HMM
34
Red Cross mission : AID
35
Gusto : JOIEDEVIVRE
41
Scratch : MAR
44
"Herman" cartoonist Jim : UNGER
45
Division du Mexique : ETAT
46
Town SE of Sacramento : IONE
47
___ Miguel : SAN
48
Fleet that was very fleet : SSTS
49
Ukrainian hub : LVOV
50
You can bet on it : TRIFECTA
54
Rap : BLAME
55
Many a posting : NOTICE
56
Where to taste tostones : TAPASBAR
59
Begin operating, datewise : OPENON
60
One-room schoolhouse features : INKWELLS
61
Failed to be : WERENT
62
Close watcher : EAGLEEYE
Down
1
"Seriously!" : IMEANIT
2
Stick alternatives : ROLLONS
3
Like some bridges : ONELANE
4
Blanket artisan : NAVAHO
5
Grass alternative : CLAY
6
Big royalty generator : HIT
7
"Cómo es ___?" ("How come?," in Córdoba) : ESO
8
Comic collected in "The Chickens Are Restless," with "The" : FARSIDE
9
"You looking ___?" : ATME
10
Short course : SOUP
11
Express disapproval : HISS
12
Cannonball Adderley played it : ALTOSAX
13
Cold symptom : REDNOSE
14
Boom : PROSPER
21
Some snoops : TMEN
23
School composition : THEME
24
Glass component : RIM
28
Valentine for Valéry : AMIE
29
A spade, e.g. : BID
31
One reporting to a capt. : CMDR
32
Foods with fillings : TARTS
33
Part of a snicker : HEE
35
Even as we speak : JUSTNOW
36
Tethered : ONAROPE
37
Match, for one : IGNITER
38
Grant : VEST
39
Comment when no one is up : ITSATIE
40
Plant container : VAT
41
Not fixed : MOVABLE
42
Blip : ANOMALY
43
Coin part : REVERSE
46
"Maybe" : ILLSEE
51
Reduced sentence, maybe : FINE
52
High-school class, informally : ECON
53
Paltry payment : CENT
54
Turn on the waterworks : BAWL
57
Gasteyer of "Mean Girls" : ANA
58
FedEx pickup: Abbr. : PKG

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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