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New York Times, Saturday, December 19, 2009

Author:
Tyler Hinman and Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
39-Across : Pleasant enough
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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Byron Walden

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JXZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 19 for Mr. Hinman. This is puzzle # 58 for Mr. Walden. Saturday freshness: 70%
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© 2009, The New York Times12/19/9 ( No. 21,956 )
Across
1
Intraclub competition rankings : LADDER
7
Site of many tests : DNALAB
13
Pseudopod formers : AMOEBAS
15
Alert : QUIVIVE
16
"Absolutely" : YOUCANCOUNTONIT
18
With 4-Down, "Roger & Me" subject : URBAN
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Its leader's flag featured a black eagle: Abbr. : HRE
20
Hard work : SWEAT
21
Cal ___ : POLY
22
Flirt : TEASE
24
All-Star Cubs catcher Geovany : SOTO
25
Overreact to an accident, maybe : SUE
26
Hold in a ring : ARMLOCK
28
"___ sher!" : FER
29
More melodramatic : SOAPIER
31
McCarthy cohort : SNERD
33
Tigers' rival in the Southeastern Conference : CRIMSONTIDE
35
Oxygen atom's protons, e.g. : OCTAD
36
Make it : BEASTAR
38
Carefully monitored area, for short : ICU
39
Pleasant enough : NICEISH
41
"Don't you ___?" : SEE
43
Criticizes : RAPS
45
Too quickly : EARLY
46
Italian site of a 1796 Napoleon victory : LODI
47
Figure in Greek myth whose name means "desired" : ERATO
49
Small containers: Abbr. : PTS
50
They call themselves Suomalaiset : FINNS
51
Very end of a conflict : FINALRESOLUTION
54
Opaque : UNCLEAR
55
What flibbertigibbets make : NOSENSE
56
Stayed in, say : LAYLOW
57
Sandy who was national security adviser for Bill Clinton : BERGER
Down
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Standard buckets : LAYUPS
2
Loverly? : AMOROUS
3
Split between roommates : DOUBLEOCCUPANCY
4
See 18-Across : DECAY
5
Host of PBS's "Heritage: Civilization and the Jews" : EBAN
6
Made the newspaper : RAN
7
Grayish shade : DUN
8
Picked things : NITS
9
Swears : AVOWS
10
Thread used in briefs : LINEOFREASONING
11
Managed banks? : AVIATED
12
Certain ticket holder : BETTOR
14
Emulates Iago : SCHEMES
15
Chili con ___ (Tex-Mex dish) : QUESO
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"The Call" autobiographer : ORALROBERTS
22
Casting device : TRIMDIE
23
Transcendent state : ECSTASY
26
Melliferous, perhaps : APIAN
27
Offering from many a New York City street vendor : KNISH
30
"Nature concentrated," per Balzac : ART
32
August setting in the Capitol bldg. : EDT
34
Roger who coached eight different N.H.L. teams : NEILSON
35
Light wind : OCARINA
37
Item sported to support Britain's Comic Relief : REDNOSE
38
Boiling over : IREFUL
40
"The Italian Job," e.g. : CAPER
42
"The Spirit" creator Will : EISNER
44
Foot-drag : STALL
46
About 33.8 fluid ounces : LITER
48
Muffin stuffin'? : OLEO
50
Current governor : FUSE
52
Unprepared : RAW
53
Easy interview question : LOB

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

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