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New York Times, Saturday, April 24, 2010

Author:
Thomas Heilman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
18-Across : Swindle
TotalDebutLatest
78/21/200711/2/2013
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.652773%
Thomas Heilman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 29 Missing: {QV} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Heilman. Saturday freshness: 69%
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© 2010, The New York Times4/24/10 ( No. 22,082 )
Across
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"Alas" : ITSASHAME
10
Is successfully interrogated : TALKS
15
Summer salon service, for some : BIKINIWAX
16
One of Ariel's sisters in "The Little Mermaid" : ALANA
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Directly : INAMOMENT
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Swindle : COZEN
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Title role in a 1983 black-and-white film : ZELIG
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Keenly observant : HAWKEYED
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Annex: Abbr. : ADDN
23
"___ End" (1971 Barbra Streisand hit) : STONEY
25
Org. with the motto "Start With Trust" : BBB
26
Lugs : GALOOTS
28
Biblical preceder of 27-Down : JOEL
29
One with an ear and a small mouth : JUG
32
What an idea comes to : MIND
33
Broadway's "Never ___ Dance" : GONNA
34
Makeup lessons? : ANATOMY
36
Wet bottoms : SEABEDS
38
Quietly tells a tale : MIMES
39
Misery : HELL
40
One with delta wings, briefly : SST
41
Wing: Prefix : PTER
42
Not mixing well : ASOCIAL
45
Well-said : APT
46
Decides one will : OPTSTO
47
Author Robert ___ Butler : OLEN
51
Target of some leg-pulling : CRABMEAT
53
In ___ diagnosis : UTERO
54
U.S.-born Japanese educated in Japan : KIBEI
55
Violent outburst : FIRESTORM
58
Brilliant effect : ECLAT
59
At a loss : FLUMMOXED
60
Thinks : DEEMS
61
Saves : SETSASIDE
Down
1
One of the Pine Islands : IBIZA
2
Like some harrows : TINED
3
Viking poet : SKALD
4
Rifle range activity : AIMING
5
Make out, to Harry Potter : SNOG
6
Exclamation at a lineup : HIM
7
Something to gaze in : AWE
8
Virility : MANHOOD
9
Not lost : EXTANT
10
In poor shape : TACKY
11
Hydrocortisone additive : ALOE
12
Person prone to proneness? : LAZYBONES
13
Ups and downs of exercise? : KNEEBENDS
14
Remove graffiti from, in a way : SANDBLAST
21
Wide receiver Welker : WES
23
Fat, as a chance : SLIM
24
What "1776" got in 1969 : TONY
27
Biblical follower of 28-Across : AMOS
28
Something to land : JOB
29
Very full : JAMPACKED
30
Sales statistic : UNITPRICE
31
Play furniture? : GAMETABLE
33
Festive : GALA
35
Thrice, to a pharmacist : TER
36
Friends, e.g. : SECT
37
Chacon of the 1962 Mets : ELIO
39
Inimical : HOSTILE
42
Mad about, with "over" : APE
43
Gets help for : STAFFS
44
Means of quick wealth : LOTTOS
46
Passes by : OMITS
48
Leader who died 27 days after his election : LEOXI
49
Was faulty? : ERRED
50
___ guerre : NOMDE
52
Appear elated : BEAM
53
Black Knights' home: Abbr. : USMA
56
Progress preventer : RUT
57
Rescue inits. : EMS

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

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