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New York Times, Thursday, May 16, 2013

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley and Elizabeth Donovan
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
46-Across : Discuss reasonable outcomes upfront
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1938/7/199612/22/202321
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
385152119522716
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley
TotalDebutCollabs
15/16/20131
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0000100
ScrabDebutFresh
1.64745%
Elizabeth Donovan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {W} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 157 for Mr. Quigley. This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Donovan. Thursday freshness: 42%
Jim Horne notes:

This is similar in concept to a 2005 puzzle by Courtenay Crocker III where the key phrase was MAN IN OUTER SPACE. A few other puzzles required scribbling beyond the lines. Here's one from 2006 that asked you to think outside the box and more recently, there was this outsiders puzzle from 2012. For a rather different but equally clever MAN rebus, see this 2003 crossword by Dan Reichert.

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© 2013, The New York Times5/16/13 ( No. 23,200 )
Across
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Wine's partner : DINE
5
Overflow : TEEM
9
Y's : FORKS
14
Spingarn of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Spingarn Medal : JOEL
15
Astronomical effect : HALO
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Broadway musical that opens with "Maybe" : ANNIE
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List shortener : ETAL
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Come again? : ECHO
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Mammal that hums to its young : LLAMA
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Language that gave us "kowtow" : MANDARINCHINESE
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"I know that one!" : OOH
24
Rough shelter : LEANTO
28
Clutch performer? : MANUALTRANSMISSION
34
Kaplan course subj. : LSAT
35
"Right You Are, Mr. ___" (1957 novel) : MOTO
36
"___ aren't the droids you're looking for" ("Star Wars" line) : THESE
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On : LIT
38
God-fearing : PIOUS
40
The Wildcats of the N.C.A.A. : KSU
41
Like some photos : MATTE
44
Winter playground : RINK
45
Hardly Mr. Personality : DRIP
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Discuss reasonable outcomes upfront : MANAGEEXPECTATIONS
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Generic : NONAME
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Gent, in Britain : GUV
51
Emergency shout ... or a possible title for this puzzle : MANOVERBOARD
58
One providing assistance after a crash : ITGUY
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Nonentity : ZERO
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Hayseed : RUBE
63
Filling in a gordita : QUESO
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Help list, e.g. : MENU
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It's got all the answers : CRIB
66
Cosmetician's goof : SMEAR
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Per : APOP
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___ Anglia : EAST
Down
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Entertained at a reception, maybe : DJED
2
Ninth in a series : IOTA
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Almost : NEAR
4
Canadian P.M. Pierre Trudeau's middle name : ELLIOTT
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1931 film for which Wallace Beery won Best Actor : THECHAMP
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Piece by piece : EACH
7
All the way through 12th grade, informally : ELHI
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It goes through many phases : MOON
9
Least genuine : FALSEST
10
Restrained, as a dog : ONLEASH
11
Biology subject : RNA
12
One of the Kardashians : KIM
13
Setting for much of Homer's "Odyssey" : SEA
21
Scand. land : NOR
22
Skull and Bones member : ELI
25
Baseball Hall-of-Famer nicknamed Knucksie : NIEKRO
26
Give, as a little extra : TOSSIN
27
Tops : ONEUPS
28
Funny Tracey : ULLMAN
29
Often-grated cheese : ASIAGO
30
Thin sheet metal : LATTEN
31
Bête ___ : NOIRE
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Unresponsive? : STOIC
33
Put up, in a way : MOUNT
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The English Beat, for one : SKAGROUP
42
Red, white and blue players : TEAMUSA
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Clint Eastwood, for one : EXMAYOR
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Split : DIVORCE
47
Hotel room amenity : PEN
48
Where Archimedes had his "Eureka!" moment : TUB
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L. Frank Baum princess : OZMA
53
No. 2 : VEEP
54
___ Rapee, longtime Radio City Music Hall conductor : ERNO
55
Mysterious glow : AURA
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Babe Ruth's 2,220, for short : RBIS
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2012 campaign issue : DEBT
58
Thinking figs. : IQS
59
Rum ___ Tugger ("Cats" cat) : TUM
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"You don't say!" : GEE

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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