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New York Times, Thursday, March 22, 2007

Author:
Karen M. Tracey
Editor:
Will Shortz
37-Across : Mid second-century date
TotalDebutLatest
325/6/20036/18/2010
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Karen M. Tracey

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 11 for Ms. Tracey. Thursday freshness: 76%
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© 2007, The New York Times3/22/7 ( No. 20,953 )
Across
1
Suited : CLAD
5
Push : IMPEL
10
Dracula's inspiration, traditionally : VLAD
14
One in a line : HEIR
15
"Fantabulous!" : NEATO
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"___ Dancer" (1973 Nureyev documentary) : IAMA
17
"Case closed!" : ENDOFDISCUSSION
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Only so far : TOAPOINT
21
Player with the first retired number in baseball : GEHRIG
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Camera type: Abbr. : SLR
23
Common time to start on a trip : DAWN
24
"Case closed!" : IVEHEARDENOUGH
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It's not to be believed : DECOY
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Kind of kitchen : EATIN
33
Hunky-dory : AOK
35
"What ___" (1996 Sublime hit) : IGOT
36
Orders of "draw one" at a diner : JAVAS
37
Mid second-century date : CLVI
38
Castellaneta, the voice of Homer on "The Simpsons" : DAN
39
Meat-and-potatoes : BASIC
40
Rationed : DOLED
41
"Case closed!" : NOTANOTHERWORD
44
Consanguineous : AKIN
45
Scooby-___ : DOO
46
Dish you might flip over : OMELET
49
Irish oath : BEGORRAH
54
"Case closed!" : WEREDONETALKING
56
Subject of some Thomas Moore poetry : ERIN
57
Bit of dirt : RUMOR
58
Homme d'___ : ETAT
59
Result of a schism : SECT
60
British guns : STENS
61
"The Secret of NIMH" figures : RATS
Down
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"Good-night, ___" (old TV sign-off) : CHET
2
"Nightline" competitor, informally : LENO
3
"Gloria all'Egitto" opera : AIDA
4
Tricky tennis stroke : DROPSHOT
5
A Gandhi : INDIRA
6
"Count ___!" : MEIN
7
History, with "the" : PAST
8
Common Latin abbr. : ETC
9
1984 and 1988 Olympic diving gold medalist : LOUGANIS
10
Companion of Brahma and Shiva : VISHNU
11
Den : LAIR
12
Mine: Fr. : AMOI
13
"Shoot!" : DANG
18
___ artist, sound-effects specialist : FOLEY
19
Attach, as a patch : SEWON
23
Remove : DETACH
24
"Look what ___!" : IDID
25
Unlikely steakhouse patron : VEGAN
26
Budget brand name starter : ECONO
27
Sanity : REASON
28
Lifeboat crane : DAVIT
29
Modesto wine name since 1933 : GALLO
30
Stay up? : HOVER
34
Jason of the N.B.A. : KIDD
36
Mopheads? : JANITORS
37
Colleague : COWORKER
39
Lay on the beach : BAKED
40
Exhibit extreme anticipation : DROOL
42
Agent's roster : TALENT
43
Awards for Dick Francis : EDGARS
46
Gets calls from collectors, say : OWES
47
Simple : MERE
48
N.H.L.'er Nystrom : ERIC
49
"It's Not Easy to ___" : BEME
50
Famous boys-only school : ETON
51
Hurricane of 2005 : RITA
52
Constitution: Abbr. : ANAT
53
Elevs. : HGTS
55
Fiend : NUT

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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