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New York Times, Friday, May 20, 2011

Author:
David Levinson Wilk
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
43-Across : Take the top off
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David Levinson Wilk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQVZ} Spans: 9, (1 triple stack) Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry. This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Wilk. Friday freshness: 29%
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© 2011, The New York Times5/20/11 ( No. 22,473 )
Across
1
1958 title role for 21-Across : GIGI
5
End of an era? : SCHWA
10
Central knob of a shield : UMBO
14
Brute of the 1970s : AMIN
15
Hunting attendant of Artemis : OREAD
16
Spanish parlor : SALA
17
Pike : ROAD
18
Reason to line up at a party : CONGA
19
Only U.S. state in which the name of the state and its capital share no letters: Abbr. : SDAK
20
It's carried at a karaoke bar : TUNE
21
See 1-Across : CARON
22
Wedding reception need : CAKE
23
Internet start-up? : HTTP
24
Barely making, with "out" : EKING
25
Take it as a sign : OMEN
26
Cauterize : SEAR
28
Italian peak : ETNA
30
Create a whole new set of problems : OPENPANDORASBOX
37
Take a person's hand, perhaps : READONESFORTUNE
38
Watchdog in the house? : INTERNALAUDITOR
39
"The soul ___ itself": Dickinson : UNTO
40
Rectangular paving stone : SETT
41
Grand Marquis, e.g., briefly : MERC
43
Take the top off : UNCAP
47
Some chase scene maneuvers, slangily : UEYS
50
Scultura, per esempio : ARTE
51
Certain salad orderer's request : NOOIL
52
Go briskly : TROT
53
Not so hot : MILD
54
Character in "I, Claudius" : COMMA
55
"___ put our heads together ..." : IFWE
56
Pier 1 alternative : IKEA
57
Historic mainframe : ENIAC
58
"Bang Bang Orangutang" actress, 2005 : OLIN
59
"Let's not do anything crazy" : EASY
60
Pension, in Paris : RENTE
61
Duma disavowal : NYET
Down
1
TV actress Jennie : GARTH
2
Statement when a hand stinks : IMOUT
3
Loggerheads, e.g. : GIANTSEATURTLES
4
1996 blockbuster with the tagline "Don't make plans for August" : INDEPENDENCEDAY
5
One who may comment on a beautiful head shot : SOCCERANNOUNCER
6
Marsh sound : CROAK
7
Photographer Cartier-Bresson : HENRI
8
S.U.V. alternative : WAGON
9
1978 Daniel Patrick Moynihan memoir : ADANGEROUSPLACE
10
She performed admirably in the War of 1812 : USSCONSTITUTION
11
Much-performed work set in Nagasaki : MADAMABUTTERFLY
12
2007 "American Idol" runner-up ___ Lewis : BLAKE
13
Sturdy, in a way : OAKEN
27
Left on board : APORT
29
Afternoon, in Acapulco : TARDE
30
Mouth: Prefix : ORI
31
Some folks are in it for life : PEN
32
Govt. grant giver : NEA
33
Surfing option, for short : DSL
34
___ mind : OFA
35
Performer who's the descendant of a Japanese emperor : ONO
36
Many a Nam vet's kid : XER
41
Pioneering blues singer Smith : MAMIE
42
Thomas Mann's daughter who married W. H. Auden : ERIKA
44
Herman's Hermits frontman : NOONE
45
"___ Home Baby" (1962 Mel Tormé hit) : COMIN
46
Shoot for : AIMAT
48
Smart reaction : YOWIE
49
Coronary ___ : STENT

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

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