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New York Times, Saturday, May 2, 2009

Author:
Peter A. Collins
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
47-Across : Ball of fire
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Peter A. Collins

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 21 for Mr. Collins. Saturday freshness: 8%
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© 2009, The New York Times5/2/9 ( No. 21,725 )
Across
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Grunt site : STY
4
Pageant attire : SASHES
10
Pen name : BIC
13
Vegetable sometimes grown as a flower : OKRA
14
Walrus-skin boats : UMIAKS
15
Spain's Victoria Eugenia, familiarly : ENA
16
Seafood restaurant locale : PIER
17
Mafia runners : BAGMEN
18
I.C.U. figure : LPN
19
Bad bill collector? : TMAN
20
Perfectly, after "to" : ATEE
21
1847 novel involving a mutiny : OMOO
22
Tape speed abbr. : IPS
23
It comprises the 10-Down, 34-Across and a third part found elsewhere in the grid : TRIPLECROWN
26
Kind of pork : MOOSHU
28
Best Actress winner for "The Great Ziegfeld," 1936 : RAINER
29
Musical with the song "It's the Hard-Knock Life" : ANNIE
30
Proceed effortlessly : COAST
33
Sample : TRY
34
Part of the 23-Across : PREAKNESS
37
Bit of autumn decoration : COB
40
QB who was the Super Bowl XXXIII M.V.P. : ELWAY
41
Itchy : EAGER
45
Revolt : UPRISE
47
Ball of fire : DYNAMO
48
One that bets are on : THEFAVORITE
52
AWOL catchers : MPS
53
Roger of stage and screen : REES
54
Sugar : DEAR
55
Genealogical listings: Abbr. : RELS
56
Certain council member: Abbr. : ALD
57
Black mark : STIGMA
59
Kind of reed : OBOE
60
Standoff : TIE
61
Birthplace of St. Clare : ASSISI
62
Chest contents : TOYS
63
Tarsus : foot :: incus : ___ : EAR
64
Admits : LETSON
65
___ admin : SYS
Down
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Not provide fully : SKIMPON
2
Subject of Article III Section 3 of the Constitution : TREASON
3
Ball material : YARN
4
One of two cars besides a Cadillac named in Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" : SUBARU
5
The Brothers ___ (violinmakers) : AMATI
6
Popular fraternity, familiarly : SIGEP
7
Actress Veronica of "Hill Street Blues" : HAMEL
8
Barely make, with "out" : EKE
9
Job application info: Abbr. : SSN
10
Part of the 23-Across : BELMONT
11
Ruling : INPOWER
12
Church office : CANONRY
13
Perfect conditions : OPTIMA
21
"Withhold no atom's atom ___ die": Keats : ORI
23
The Little Flower of Jesus : THERESA
24
Manx relative : ERSE
25
Certain shooter : CATSEYE
27
Sample, in a way : SIP
30
Quote the raven? : CAW
31
River to the Volga : OKA
32
"___ questions?" : ANY
35
Map abbr. : ELEV
36
___ Juan : SAN
37
Marked down : CUTRATE
38
"O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!" speaker, in Shakespeare : OPHELIA
39
One with a stake in 48-Across, say : BREEDER
42
Nintendo product : GAMEBOY
43
Has working : EMPLOYS
44
Family in Upton Sinclair's "Oil!" : ROSSES
46
Conditions : IFS
47
Public transportation to New York's Yankee Stadium : DTRAIN
49
Wordsworth, e.g. : ODIST
50
Denver's ___ University : REGIS
51
Response to a disbeliever : IAMSO
55
Spoils : ROTS
57
___ the Stockbroker on "The Howard Stern Show" : SAL
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Literary inits. : TSE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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