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New York Times, Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Author:
Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Across : Fan sound
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
10811/23/20014/6/202415
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1412393697
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
321.591,28194%
Byron Walden

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JKQYZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 32 for Mr. Walden. Wednesday freshness: 48%
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© 2006, The New York Times2/15/6 ( No. 20,553 )
Across
1
Handball playing surface : WALL
5
Regions : AREAS
10
Happy : GLAD
14
Cranial bulb? : IDEA
15
Certain tribute : ROAST
16
With 17-Across, one in a million : RARE
17
See 16-Across : FIND
18
No ordinary joe? : MOCHALATTE
20
How to color neatly : INSIDETHELINES
22
Notable Dumbo features : EARS
23
Was in the van : LED
24
Drives out of bed : ROUSTS
27
B, gradewise : GOOD
29
"The ___, the proud, the Marines" : FEW
32
"Hey, don't you recognize this voice?!" : ITSME
33
Long, long time : AEON
34
Fisherman's story : TALE
35
Forward-thinking : AHEADOFTHECURVE
38
Sea bird : TERN
39
Spanish newspaper El ___ : PAIS
40
Pressed : URGED
41
MGM motto word : ARS
42
Procter and Gamble shampoo : PERT
43
Choir section : TENORS
44
Actress Jillian : ANN
45
Fall sound : THUD
46
Irrelevant : BESIDETHEPOINT
53
Manager with scientific expertise : TECHNOCRAT
54
Fan sound : WHIR
55
Unvarnished : BARE
56
John who wrote "Ten North Frederick" : OHARA
57
Portion for Mother Hubbard's dog : NONE
58
Make jaws drop : STUN
59
Hardly nail-biters : ROMPS
60
Glasses, slangily : SPEX
Down
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Kind of connection for traveling computer users : WIFI
2
Tennis score after deuce : ADIN
3
Camera's eye : LENS
4
Lothario : LADIESMAN
5
Gun suppliers : ARMERS
6
Unseen parts : ROOTS
7
With 25-Down, what couples have : EACH
8
___ Stadium in Queens : ASHE
9
Best Actor/Original Screenplay nominee of 1976 : STALLONE
10
Thou : GRAND
11
Pushing midnight, say : LATE
12
Song and dance? : ARTS
13
Grade above ef : DEE
19
Dissembled and then some : LIED
21
Saw : DATED
24
Calf catcher : RIATA
25
See 7-Down : OTHER
26
Hopheads : USERS
27
"See?" : GETIT
28
Circus reactions : OOHS
29
North Dakota city : FARGO
30
Glass eel : ELVER
31
Gardeners' bane : WEEDS
33
Way off : AFAR
34
Rejections : TURNDOWNS
36
McKinley policy for China : OPENDOOR
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Prepare to play : CUEUP
42
1957 Nabokov novel : PNIN
43
Some sorority women : THETAS
44
Drained of color : ASHEN
45
Choreographer Twyla : THARP
46
Thump : BEAT
47
Neutral color : ECRU
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Say the same thing as : ECHO
49
Transport for a short distance : TRAM
50
24-hr. breakfast place : IHOP
51
Excellent gymnastics score : NINE
52
Fearsome dino : TREX
53
Atlanta-based channel : TBS

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

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