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New York Times, Saturday, February 4, 2012

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley and Caleb Madison
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
43-Across : Sneeze cause
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1938/7/199612/22/202321
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
385152119522716
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
355/13/20084/19/20193
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
9154565
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
131.6221859%
Caleb Madison

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 153 for Mr. Quigley. This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Madison. Saturday freshness: 32%
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© 2012, The New York Times2/4/12 ( No. 22,733 )
Across
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Navajo terrain : MESAS
6
Chicken ___ : PARM
10
Pack member, for short? : CIG
13
Top : OUTDO
14
What going 100 might result in : STEEPFINE
17
"You ___ one" : OWEME
18
1980s-'90s hip-hop show co-hosted by Fab 5 Freddy : YOMTVRAPS
19
Ingurgitate : DEVOUR
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Delectable : LUSCIOUS
22
Joins : ENROLLS
24
Food item whose name means "pounded" : PESTO
25
"Patton" setting : TUNISIA
27
Relieve : RID
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They often accompany discoveries : AHAS
29
Congregation, metaphorically : SHEEP
32
Org. studying viruses : NIH
35
Be daring : PUSHTHEENVELOPE
39
Sound after "Lower ... lower ... that's it!" : AHH
40
Noted entertainer with a whistle : HARPO
41
Site of a religious retreat : APSE
42
Oaf : LUG
43
Sneeze cause : RAGWEED
46
Salad bar offering : BACON
49
Writer about a bear : AAMILNE
51
"Julie & Julia" co-star : AMYADAMS
53
Amass : RACKUP
56
"Bad for bacteria" brand : LISTERINE
58
Setting for the 1996 documentary "When We Were Kings" : ZAIRE
59
"Funny People" actor : SETHROGEN
60
"Pietà or Revolution by Night" artist : ERNST
61
Jerk : ASS
62
Zip : DART
63
"L'Amateur d'estampes" painter : DEGAS
Down
1
Subjunctive, e.g. : MOOD
2
Dutch chess grandmaster Max : EUWE
3
First N.B.A. player to light the Olympic cauldron : STEVENASH
4
Caution : ADMONISH
5
French nuns : SOEURS
6
Liberal arts dept. : PSY
7
Midway, e.g. : ATOLL
8
Fratricide victim of myth : REMUS
9
"Meet the ___" (major-league fight song) : METS
10
Bye lines? : CIAOS
11
Data : INPUT
12
Artist's supply : GESSO
15
Line at a water fountain, maybe : PVCPIPE
16
Burned out : FRIED
20
Échecs piece : ROI
23
Modern-day pointer : LASER
25
Part of a bar order : TAPA
26
"Dream on!" : UHUH
27
King, e.g.: Abbr. : REV
30
Like '40s boppers : HEP
31
Colossal, to Coleridge : ENORM
32
Christmas order : NOPEEKING
33
Alter ___ amicus : IPSE
34
Follow : HEED
36
It rolls across fields : THUNDER
37
Gorgon, e.g. : HAG
38
Business that's always cutting back? : LAWNCARE
42
Disinclined : LOATH
44
Put on : AIR
45
Like some doughnuts and eyes : GLAZED
46
Makings of a model, maybe : BALSA
47
Billet-doux recipients : AMIES
48
Some bump producers : CYSTS
49
Computer that pioneered in CD-ROMs : AMIGA
50
Onetime Moore co-star : ASNER
52
Longtime Yankee moniker : AROD
54
Nocturnal bear : URSA
55
No ___ (store sign) : PETS
57
Rhinology expert, for short : ENT

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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