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New York Times, Saturday, December 17, 2011

Author:
Tom Heilman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
16-Across : Secret target
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Thomas Heilman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {BW} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Heilman. Saturday freshness: 20%
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© 2011, The New York Times12/17/11 ( No. 22,684 )
Across
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Spicy blend : SALSADIP
9
Building supports : JOISTS
15
One who works with combs : APIARIST
16
Secret target : ARMPIT
17
Potential result of a 56-Across : REVERSAL
18
Kind of pants : PAJAMA
19
Sack : AXE
20
Winner over NYY in the 2001 World Series : ARI
21
Like suckers : DELUDED
22
Black and white : SQUADCAR
25
Have a heated phone exchange? : SEXT
26
Old Testament outdoorsman : ESAU
28
Make unfathomable : ENCRYPT
30
"There's no hope!" : ALLISLOST
32
With 60-Across, Michelle Kwan or Michelle Wie : ASIAN
36
Slow exercises : TAICHI
37
Record achievement : GRAMMY
38
John ___, English explorer who named Lake Victoria : SPEKE
39
Fax forerunners : TELETYPES
42
"Go! Go! Go!" : FLOORIT
44
Heroine of Bulwer-Lytton's "The Last Days of Pompeii" : IONE
45
Bit of emotional damage : SCAR
48
Outdoor dining place : MESSTENT
50
Like stocking caps : TAPERED
52
Lowest number on a clock : SIX
53
TV title lawyer Stone : ELI
56
Legal action : APPEAL
57
Rum-flavored desserts : TORTONIS
59
"Prego" preceder : GRAZIE
60
See 32-Across : AMERICAN
61
Still : SILENT
62
Time for crisis management : REDALERT
Down
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Actress Rue of "Rules of Engagement" : SARA
2
Culmination : APEX
3
Denies who one really is : LIVESALIE
4
Bill accompanier: Abbr. : SAE
5
Pianist Claudio : ARRAU
6
Powerful friend of Queen Victoria : DISRAELI
7
Reiterated refusal : ISAIDNO
8
Scandalous 1980s inits. : PTL
9
Jests : JAPERY
10
Kind of rinse : ORAL
11
"That's my two cents" : IMJUSTSAYIN
12
One in a dark suit : SPADE
13
Durable ticker? : TIMEX
14
German town : STADT
21
Feathered flier : DART
23
Way to preserve food freshness : QUICKFREEZE
24
Mails a dupe : CCS
26
Manducates : EATS
27
Response to an affront : SLAP
29
Break up : PART
31
Author Silverstein : SHEL
33
Weakness : IMPOTENCE
34
"Exactly right!" : AMEN
35
Where Loews is "L" : NYSE
37
Run down : GETTIRED
39
Drove diagonally : TOED
40
Stretcher settings: Abbr. : ERS
41
Easily bent : LISSOME
43
Diner order : OMELET
45
Dos for dudes : STAGS
46
Kind of pants : CAPRI
47
Dismay, in Dover : APPAL
49
Spare : EXTRA
51
Pour : RAIN
54
One guilty of pseudologia : LIAR
55
"Who ___?" : ISNT
57
Pine product : TAR
58
Pine product : OIL

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

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