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New York Times, Saturday, April 7, 2012

Author:
Robert H. Wolfe
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
54-Across : Homemakers out on a limb?
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Robert H. Wolfe

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 5, (2 double stacks) This is puzzle # 83 for Mr. Wolfe. Saturday freshness: 17%
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© 2012, The New York Times4/7/12 ( No. 22,796 )
Across
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Many a museum dinosaur display : DIORAMA
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Suited to the stage : ACTABLE
15
What a telemarketer often hears before a click : IMNOTINTERESTED
17
Reward in the offing? : PRICEONONESHEAD
18
Three in a match, maybe : SETS
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Covent Garden area : WESTEND
20
Taking some doing : NOTEASY
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Stains : DISCOLORS
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Bleed (for) : ACHE
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Probably will : INTENDTO
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Back 40? : LASHES
34
Nonstarter's lack : CHANCEOFSUCCESS
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Threaten collapse : TOTTER
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The Cherokee deemed it good training for war : LACROSSE
38
Masters : ACES
39
Like Lennon/McCartney songs : COWRITTEN
40
Checked the meter? : SCANNED
42
Provider of up-to-the-minute info? : BIGHAND
45
Follower of blood and guts : IEST
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Might just : HAVEAGOODMINDTO
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Scottie : ABERDEENTERRIER
54
Homemakers out on a limb? : NESTERS
55
Site of the first British colony in the Caribbean, 1624 : STKITTS
Down
1
Leap-the-___ (world's oldest operating roller coaster) : DIPS
2
Hungary's ___ Nagy : IMRE
3
Doing the job : ONIT
4
Huge-taloned menaces : ROCS
5
Put down : ATE
6
Parmesan pronoun : MIO
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Name meaning "grace" : ANN
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Heroic son of Prince Anchises : AENEAS
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Mustard family member : CRESS
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Easily snapping : TESTY
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He got a tennis scholarship from U.C.L.A. : ASHE
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Old bomber : BTEN
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Fat part : LEAD
14
Reds great Roush : EDD
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Traitors' Gate locale : TOWEROFLONDON
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Present : NONCE
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Senior : OLDER
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1930s film dog : TOTO
23
Mandates : DICTA
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"___ signo vinces" (Constantine I's motto) : INHOC
25
29-Down, for one : STATE
26
Two are often put in : CENTS
27
"My Fair Lady" setting : ASCOT
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Where to feel the beat? : CHEST
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Its capital is Wiesbaden : HESSE
30
European city whose name sounds like two letters of the alphabet : ESSEN
32
Shameful gain : LUCRE
33
Nose-burning : ACRID
35
Like much lumber : SAWN
39
"The Last of the Mohicans" craft : CANOES
40
Strawberry is one : SHADE
41
One engaged in bucket-making : CAGER
42
Toots : BABE
43
St. ___, Cornwall : IVES
44
Frobe who played Goldfinger : GERT
45
Sign letters on the cross : INRI
46
Execute a 47-Down, e.g. : EDIT
47
See 46-Down : STET
48
Rocky outcrops : TORS
49
China's ___ dynasty : HAN
50
Affliction a k a "blue devils" : DTS
51
Strawberry was one : MET
52
Chafe : IRK

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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