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New York Times, Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
42-Across : Buff thing
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
431.5850462%
Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JW} This is puzzle # 56 for Ms. Gamache. Tuesday freshness: 58%
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© 2010, The New York Times3/16/10 ( No. 22,043 )
Across
1
One "in the woods" : BABE
5
Troop group: Abbr. : BSA
8
Tiny light that's here and gone : BLIP
12
Classic door-to-door marketer : AVON
13
Manufactured : BUILT
15
Radames's love, in opera : AIDA
16
Something that swings : MOOD
17
Keyboard key : ENTER
18
Manual reader : USER
19
Show ___ : BIZ
20
Stand-up comic's material : GAGS
21
Film bomb of 1987 : ISHTAR
23
"You can't make me!" : IREFUSE
25
Sch. with home games at Pauley Pavilion : UCLA
26
Speediness : HASTE
27
Kwame ___, advocate of pan-Africanism and the first P.M. of Ghana : NKRUMAH
31
Stewed to the gills : BLOTTO
33
Pronto : PDQ
34
Half-off event : SALE
35
Lucy of "Kill Bill" : LIU
36
Period of low activity : OFFHOUR
39
Bamboozle : CON
40
Sell : VEND
42
Buff thing : BOD
43
Figure-skating figures : EIGHTS
45
Dressed to the nines : DUDEDUP
47
Computer data acronym : ASCII
48
Makes public : AIRS
49
Gasoline additive : ETHANOL
52
What 3-, 13-, 14- and 28-Down may be : LOADED
55
Soft white cheese : BRIE
56
Program file-name extension : EXE
57
Puppy's plaint : YELP
58
Farm letters? : EIEIO
60
Votin' no on : AGIN
61
Poet laureate Dove : RITA
62
Ryan in Cooperstown : NOLAN
63
Newsman Roger : MUDD
64
Pizazz : ELAN
65
The Cards, on scoreboards : STL
66
Low ratings : ONES
Down
1
Disney fawn : BAMBI
2
To have, to Henri : AVOIR
3
Tippler : BOOZEHOUND
4
Remnant : END
5
___ jumping : BUNGEE
6
Plops down : SITS
7
Ballantine product : ALE
8
German design school founded in 1919 : BAUHAUS
9
Grocery shopper's aid : LIST
10
It's a thought : IDEA
11
Catherine ___, last wife of Henry VIII : PARR
13
Donkey, for one : BEASTOFBURDEN
14
"How many months have 28 days?," e.g. : TRICKQUESTION
20
Zest : GUSTO
22
Professional's camera, for short : SLR
24
Too heavy : FAT
25
Cancel : UNDO
28
Rat-a-tat-tat weapon : MACHINEGUN
29
Very much : ALOT
30
Chickens that come home to roost : HENS
31
Hollywood or Sunset: Abbr. : BLVD
32
Place : LIEU
33
Third degree? : PHD
37
Dandy sorts : FOPS
38
Nouveau ___ : RICHE
41
Expressionless : DEADPAN
44
Scala of "The Guns of Navarone" : GIA
46
Fizzle : DIE
47
Formerly common rooftop sight : AERIAL
50
Water or rust : OXIDE
51
Makes advances? : LENDS
52
Instrument in ancient Greek art : LYRE
53
Trompe l'___ : OEIL
54
Utah ski resort : ALTA
55
Big swig : BELT
59
Cyclades island : IOS
60
___, amas, amat ... : AMO

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

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