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New York Times, Saturday, May 24, 2008

Author:
Charles Barasch
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Across : Went (off)
TotalDebutLatest
62/16/20045/24/2008
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0110121
ScrabDebutFresh
1.552774%
Charles Barasch

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 33 Missing: {JZ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Barasch. Saturday freshness: 86%
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G
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P
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© 2008, The New York Times5/24/8 ( No. 21,382 )
Across
1
One taking a shot : GUESSER
8
Worthless stuff : DROSS
13
Exposed : UNSHADED
15
Mideast royal name : FAISAL
16
What some patches provide : NICOTINE
17
Second in court?: Abbr. : ASSTDA
18
Like a family man : MARRIEDWITHKIDS
20
First volume heading starter : ATO
21
"To you, Antonio, ___ the most": Shak. : IOWE
22
Old Testament book: Abbr. : NEH
23
Pitch between columns : NEWSPAPERAD
28
Ending for some gases : ANE
29
More likely to be fresh : WISER
30
Second : LATTER
32
Cy Young had a record 815 : STARTS
34
One of the Blues Brothers : ELWOOD
35
"Just watch me!" : ICANSO
36
Sticker : SPEAR
37
Counterpart of "pls" : THX
38
What most couples try to have together : QUALITYTIME
43
Slow runner in the woods : SAP
44
Erase : UNDO
45
'60s theater : NAM
46
Be like Clark Kent : LEADADOUBLELIFE
52
Long gone : OFYORE
53
Got ready to pounce : CLOSEDIN
54
Went (off) : VEERED
55
Deli sandwich material : HAMSALAD
56
Went off : ERRED
57
Girl with a future? : SEERESS
Down
1
One taking a shot : GUNMAN
2
Certain Christian : UNIATE
3
Funds may be in it : ESCROW
4
Restaurant business bigwig : SHOR
5
Coll. entrance hurdle : SATI
6
Real estate agent on "Desperate Housewives" : EDIE
7
Split : REND
8
Split : DASHEDAWAY
9
Gamble : RISK
10
Repeated musical phrase : OSTINATO
11
Brought down : SADDENED
12
Horror movie character : SLASHER
14
More innocent : DEWIER
15
It's stuffed with dough : FATWALLET
19
Super finish? : IOR
24
Kind of song : SWAN
25
Area of interest to Archimedes : PIRSQUARED
26
In a daze : ASTOUNDED
27
Zoologist's foot : PES
31
Makings of a suit : TORT
32
Beer brand since 1842 : SCHAEFER
33
One with a duty : TAXPAYER
34
Prefix with calyx or thalamus : EPI
35
Song from Bernstein's "Wonderful Town" : ITSLOVE
36
Not be upright : SLOUCH
39
Tzimmes : ADO
40
Not going anywhere? : INIDLE
41
They have family units : MAFIAS
42
Polishes : EMENDS
47
Illustrator of "Paradise Lost" and "The Divine Comedy" : DORE
48
Gulf of San ___ (Caribbean Sea inlet) : BLAS
49
West African capital : LOME
50
Ovidian infinitive : ESSE
51
"There was an old man ..." poet : LEAR

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

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