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New York Times, Saturday, December 12, 2009

Author:
Karen M. Tracey
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
59-Across : Data center workhorses
TotalDebutLatest
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Karen M. Tracey

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 29 Missing: {X} Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. This is puzzle # 30 for Ms. Tracey. Saturday freshness: 75%
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© 2009, The New York Times12/12/9 ( No. 21,949 )
Across
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Stuff in a meat can : ASPIC
6
Cherished, in Cremona : CARA
10
Picks up : NABS
14
Moniker for fictional baseballer Roy Hobbs : THENATURAL
16
Tip end: Prefix : ACRO
17
Minor employment need? : WORKPERMIT
18
Disturbance : STIR
19
Plaster worker : TROWEL
20
Opposite : FLIPSIDE
22
Darkness personified : EREBUS
24
Hangover locales? : EAVES
25
General Motors acquisition of 1929 : OPEL
28
17th-century painter of "Lady With a Fan" : VELAZQUEZ
30
A scuttle might scoop from it : COALBIN
32
St. Anthony's cross, e.g. : TAU
33
Turn down : DIP
35
Jettisons : TOSSES
36
Linking verb : COPULA
38
Roguish : SLY
39
Apollo part : LEM
41
Literally, "little towns" : SHTETLS
42
Daily bread supplier? : STEADYJOB
45
Scandinavian area rugs : RYAS
46
Third time, say : CHARM
47
Alternative to culottes : CAPRIS
49
'84 Super Bowl celebrant : LARAIDER
51
Some are humble : ABODES
55
Sch. yearbook section : ORGS
56
Historical transition point : ENDOFANERA
58
Rapper ___-Lo : SKEE
59
Data center workhorses : MAINFRAMES
60
Abbr. after an institution's name : ESTD
61
Propelled : SENT
62
Apply carelessly : SLOSH
Down
1
Bit of elementary knowledge?: Abbr. : ATWT
2
Old Manhattan restaurateur : SHOR
3
Spanish "but" : PERO
4
Quaint stationery store stock : INKWELLS
5
Rémoulade bit : CAPER
6
Meanie : CUR
7
Big baby, maybe : ARMFUL
8
Really reproaches : RAILSAT
9
Some voices : ALTI
10
Historic base for pirates of the Caribbean : NASSAU
11
Reserves are not on it : ACTIVEDUTY
12
Hard-to-please wedding participant : BRIDEZILLA
13
They often get dressed : SORES
15
Shown : TELEVISED
21
Early Connecticut tribe : PEQUOT
23
"The Waltons" son : BEN
25
Fourth qtr. starters : OCTS
26
Some hustlers : POOLSHARKS
27
Soft touch : EASYTARGET
29
"Scrubs" Emmy nominee : ZACHBRAFF
31
Guy de Maupassant novel : BELAMI
34
Turn down, with "on" : PASS
37
Like some decisions and demons : PERSONAL
40
Agamemnon's domain : MYCENAE
41
Bread, at times : SOP
43
Now blank : ERASED
44
Paris's ___ des Plantes : JARDIN
46
Wind up : CLOSE
48
Bridge supports : IBARS
50
House party, briefly : DEMS
52
It's usually not for sale : DEMO
53
You are, in Yucatán : ERES
54
Scout uniform part : SASH
57
The Albany is its longest river: Abbr. : ONT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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