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New York Times, Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Author:
Gareth Bain
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
61-Across : Shape (up)
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Gareth Bain

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQVXYZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Bain. Wednesday freshness: 61%
Jim Horne notes:

The theme is DOUBLE HEADERS. Four theme answers consist of two words that can be made into new words by appending HEAD to each. So, "Thor, for one" is THUNDER GOD which becomes THUNDERHEAD and GODHEAD. Similarly with WARHEAD and BRIDESHEAD, STEELHEAD and DRUMHEAD, DEADHEAD and LETTERHEAD.

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© 2011, The New York Times4/6/11 ( No. 22,429 )
Across
1
Kept in a cellar, perhaps : AGED
5
Droids, iPhones, etc. : PDAS
9
Non-PC computer : IMAC
13
___ amandine : SOLE
14
Language that gave us "kiwi" : MAORI
15
Roll up, as a sail : FURL
16
Thor, for one : THUNDERGOD
18
Michigan college town : ALMA
19
Porcupine, e.g. : RODENT
20
Actresses West and Clarke : MAES
22
Hosp. areas : ERS
23
Creature on a slide : AMEBA
24
Ones often marrying in a hurry : WARBRIDES
26
Took by the hand : LED
27
My ___, Vietnam : LAI
29
Needing a seat belt extender, say : OBESE
30
Shore leave taker : SAILOR
33
Collectors' completions : SETS
34
Once-common baseball events ... and a hint to 16-, 24-, 46- and 57-Across : DOUBLEHEADERS
38
Chicago exchange, for short : MERC
39
Absorb thoroughly : SOAKIN
40
Agassi of tennis : ANDRE
42
Beat it : LAM
43
It borders two Great Lakes: Abbr. : WIS
46
Calypso instrument : STEELDRUM
50
Place secretly : PLANT
52
Mangy mutt : CUR
53
Seeks redress : SUES
54
Like Mrs. Bumstead : BLONDE
55
Yankee nickname starting in 2004 : AROD
57
It's undeliverable : DEADLETTER
59
Extend one's tour : REUP
60
"The Waste Land" poet : ELIOT
61
Shape (up) : TONE
62
Piedmont city : ASTI
63
Cold war-era lands: Abbr. : SSRS
64
Not taken in by : ONTO
Down
1
Kind of projection : ASTRAL
2
"Beat it!" : GOHOME
3
Got away from : ELUDED
4
Summer Triangle star : DENEB
5
Links figure : PAR
6
Set of beliefs : DOGMA
7
Like crowds in the heat of a match : AROAR
8
45 half : SIDEB
9
"___ tree falls ..." : IFA
10
Yellowstone forager : MULEDEER
11
Pair on a couch : ARMRESTS
12
Business and tourist : CLASSES
14
Shook hands, say : MET
17
Paternity testing locale : DNALAB
21
B.O. sign : SRO
24
Bits of cunning : WILES
25
"Peer Gynt" playwright : IBSEN
28
Have a bug : AIL
30
A capital of Bolivia : SUCRE
31
"Caught you!" : OHO
32
Queendom, e.g. : REALM
34
Stereotypical glass fillers : DENTURES
35
Not have a home-cooked meal, maybe : ORDEROUT
36
Wanted-poster abbr. : AKA
37
Part of a golf ball : DIMPLE
38
It might run in the rain : MASCARA
41
Golf's Big Easy : ELS
43
Far from demure : WANTON
44
Set right : INDENT
45
Word on many LPs : STEREO
47
Fancy dressers : DUDES
48
Walks like a tosspot : REELS
49
Carrier renamed in 1997 : USAIR
51
Pick 6, e.g. : LOTTO
54
Short-order lunch : BLT
56
Print resolution meas. : DPI
58
Galas : DOS

Answer summary:
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