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New York Times, Friday, March 9, 2007

Author:
Randolph Ross
Editor:
Will Shortz
38-Across : Title boy in a nursery rhyme
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Randolph Ross

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 31 Missing: {JQV} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 89 for Mr. Ross. Friday freshness: 84%
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© 2007, The New York Times3/9/7 ( No. 20,940 )
Across
1
He appointed the first chairman of the A.E.C. : HST
4
Secretive places : SWISSBANKS
14
Simple choice : AORB
16
What a standard deviation measures : DISPERSION
17
Oscar-nominated actress for "Leaving Las Vegas" : SHUE
18
Like some fears : IRRATIONAL
19
Hint : TINGE
21
City at the confluence of the Lehigh and Delaware rivers : EASTON
22
Team member : YOKEMATE
24
Without a break : ONEACT
28
Christmas at St. Peter's : NATALE
30
First lady before Eleanor : LOU
31
2000 best seller on social epidemics : THETIPPINGPOINT
37
Climax at Daytona : BELLLAP
38
Title boy in a nursery rhyme : GEORGIE
39
Ability to let a pitch go by : SALESRESISTANCE
41
Historic beginning? : PRE
42
Budget item : RENTAL
43
Doesn't follow the party line : STRAYS
47
Pension supplements : NESTEGGS
51
Make good progress : GETFAR
53
Yellow bloomer : OXLIP
54
Artful gossip : INSINUATOR
58
Crackerjack : AONE
59
Common elevator stop : FIRSTFLOOR
60
Hedge fun? : MAZE
61
Communist collectives : STATEFARMS
62
Bit : TAD
Down
1
Precipitate : HASTY
2
1987 BP acquisition : SOHIO
3
Jack's place : TRUNK
4
Program introduced by R.W.R. : SDI
5
Person of intelligence? : WIRETAPPER
6
Begin, say : ISRAELI
7
Body shops? : SPAS
8
Row : SETTO
9
Singer/film composer Jon : BRION
10
In harmony : ASONE
11
"Henry & June" role : NIN
12
Big inits. in camping : KOA
13
Broadcast from Rockefeller Ctr. : SNL
15
"Go easy" : BEGENTLE
20
Office communications : EMAILS
23
How some stock is bought : ATPAR
25
Go straight : ALIGN
26
Kind of section : CONIC
27
Person in a class of one : TUTEE
29
Part of a ship : ENGINEROOM
31
Cookbook amts. : TBSPS
32
Compassion : HEART
33
Hall-of-Fame Viking Carl : ELLER
34
Tales of derring-do : GESTS
35
Baseball, in slang : POTATO
36
Dental routine : ORALEXAM
40
Cicero or Publius : SENATOR
44
Feed for a fee, as cattle : AGIST
45
Fictional matchmaker : YENTE
46
Things : STUFF
48
Be a bad winner : GLOAT
49
Where you may have a yen for shopping : GINZA
50
1994 Sandra Bullock film : SPEED
52
Start of a Christmas chorus : FALA
54
Possibilities : IFS
55
Picked peeve : NIT
56
Mme. of La Mancha : SRA
57
Traffic at Union Sta. : RRS

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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