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New York Times, Saturday, March 27, 2010

Author:
Samuel A. Donaldson
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
38-Across : The Pink Panther, e.g.
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Samuel A. Donaldson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 28 Missing: {QV} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Donaldson. Saturday freshness: 76%
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© 2010, The New York Times3/27/10 ( No. 22,054 )
Across
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Massive : GINORMOUS
10
"Hairspray" mom and others : EDNAS
15
Versatile : ADAPTABLE
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One to hang with : NOOSE
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Faded : LOSTSTEAM
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Blackmore heroine : DOONE
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Cry after failing : ALAS
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Ezio Pinza's "Mr. Imperium" co-star : LANATURNER
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Medical research org. : NIH
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Easy tots to baby-sit : NAPPERS
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Perfect : SPOTON
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Donatello sculpture subject : STMARK
29
Outcast : LEPER
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Integrated with : BUILTINTO
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More of the same, in research papers : IDEM
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Capital on the Buriganga River, old-style : DACCA
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Avant-garde saxophonist John : ZORN
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Tiny irritations : PINPRICKS
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The Pink Panther, e.g. : JEWEL
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Old means of public humiliation : STOCKS
40
Subject of the 1997 biography "Woman in the Mists" : FOSSEY
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They're made by origami artists : CREASES
43
Temporary downturn : SAG
44
Be the charming type? : CASTASPELL
46
Chicken : WIMP
50
"Pinky" Best Actress nominee Jeanne : CRAIN
51
Italy, once : AXISPOWER
53
With 31-Down, its products are often squeezed : LEMON
54
Hitchcock trademark : CAMEOROLE
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"The Faerie Queene" character : IRENA
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Occasion to break glass? : EMERGENCY
Down
1
Kind of ball : GALA
2
Massive star : IDOL
3
Launcher launched in 1958 : NASA
4
Takes, with "for" : OPTS
5
They're listed in a bill: Abbr. : RTS
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Youngest Best Actress Oscar winner, 1986 : MATLIN
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Magic practiced by native Guianans : OBEAH
8
___ Hot (city in Inner Mongolia) : ULAN
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Linguist's concern : SEMANTICS
10
Reach : ENDUPAT
11
Attendance incentives : DOORPRIZES
12
"It's anybody's guess" : NOONEKNOWS
13
Actor who won comedy and drama Emmys for the same role : ASNER
14
Some card readers : SEERS
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Motown's original name : TAMLA
22
"___ the soles of her shoe?": Hamlet : NOR
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Fall preceder : SLIP
25
Foot part? : PEDI
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Getting in line? : OPENSESAME
27
"I can resist everything except ___": Oscar Wilde : TEMPTATION
28
Leeches : SUCKS
30
Move to your previous place : BACKSPACE
31
See 53-Across : TREE
32
Exclusive : ONLY
34
Shoots craps, e.g. : DICES
37
1982 Grammy-winning song by Toto : ROSANNA
38
Nudge : JOG
40
Less natural : FALSER
41
Last full year of St. Julius I's papacy : CCCLI
42
Not so easy to get one's hands on : RARER
43
Odious type : SLIME
45
Hospital administration? : EXAM
46
Eroded : WORE
47
Gloating cry : IWON
48
Sporty Spice of the Spice Girls : MELC
49
Part of a food chain : PREY
52
Faddish disk of the 1990s : POG

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

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