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NY Times, Fri, May __, 2011

New York Times, Friday, May 13, 2011

Author:
Joe Krozel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
29-Across : Hard to nail down
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
877/7/20066/14/201815
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
4147242621
CircleScrabDebutFresh
51.4849785%
Joe Krozel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 33 Missing: {JQVWZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 44 for Mr. Krozel. Friday freshness: 79%
Notepad: Every length of answer from 3 to 15 letters - except one - appears in this puzzle. Some people might have a 1-Across about that.
Jim Horne notes:

The print version of this puzzle is slightly different. Appropriately, there is no square numbered 13. Note the puzzle title is Fri, May ___, 2011.

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© 2011, The New York Times5/13/11 ( No. 22,466 )
Across
1
[See blurb] : SUPERSTITION
13
Deal-making occasion, maybe : BUSINESSDINNER
15
Betty Crocker or Hungry Jack product : INSTANTPOTATOES
17
Mechanically : BYROTE
18
"Impossible" : NOCANDO
19
Cancel : NEGATE
22
Bean, for one : ORSON
23
Ruhr rodent : MAUS
26
Like Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 : INE
27
Day associated with an unlucky number: Abbr. : FRI
28
Certain ring-bearer: Abbr. : MRS
29
Hard to nail down : INDEFINABLE
34
Takes the bite out of? : DEFANGS
36
Germany vis-à-vis France, e.g. : EXENEMY
37
Open formally : CALLTOORDER
39
End of many a fuel source name : ANE
40
Compose : PEN
41
Mortar carrier : HOD
42
Poker : PROD
43
"Are you calling me ___?" : ALIAR
46
Island whose name means, literally, "main land" : HONSHU
48
Flatten : PANCAKE
50
Overtones : TINGES
54
Reading devices : OPTICALSCANNERS
57
Bridge workers, perhaps : DENTALSURGEONS
58
Wasn't quite as great as before : LOSTONESEDGE
Down
1
Sch. syst. with a campus in Buffalo : SUNY
2
BOAC destination, in song : USSR
3
Climbers' gear : PITONS
4
Related on the mother's side : ENATE
5
Backing out of : RENEGINGON
6
Boomer that retired in the early '00s? : SST
7
It's more than a pinch: Abbr. : TSP
8
"What on earth have ___?" : IDONE
9
One of the Jacksons : TITO
10
Trapped : INACORNER
11
Mike Myers or Dan Aykroyd, once : ONTARIAN
12
Bygone Dodges : NEONS
13
Lobster catcher? : BIB
14
Mulligan, say : REDO
16
Prince, e.g. : SON
20
"Hence ..." : ANDSO
21
Basketball timeout sign : TEE
23
End of the 26th century : MMDC
24
Staging ___ : AREA
25
Defunct sports org. with the Denver Gold and Chicago Blitz : USFL
27
Apparently stationary light sources, to astronomers : FIXEDSTARS
29
Plays with others, for instance : INTERACTS
30
Had for a meal : FEDON
31
Certain Wall Street type : BEAR
32
Alphabet run : LMNO
33
Saw : EYED
35
"Author! Author!" star, 1982 : ALPACINO
38
A fraternity chapter : RHO
42
Made Berne burn? : PUNNED
43
Base letters : APO
44
Grp. in "Die Hard" : LAPD
45
Pentium source : INTEL
46
"What do we have here?!" : HELLO
47
Connector with a pivotal role : HINGE
49
Pitcher Jim who was a 16-time Gold Glove winner : KAAT
51
Popular Sporcle subj. : GEOG
52
Sea cliff dweller : ERNE
53
Draft org. : SSS
55
Passport application datum: Abbr. : SSN
56
Pool need : CUE

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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