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New York Times, Thursday, May 5, 2011

Author:
Joel Fagliano
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
61-Across : Enters as a disorderly group
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Joel Fagliano

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 42 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Fagliano. Thursday freshness: 52%
Notepad: Some of the black squares in this puzzle's grid provide a hint to the four longest Down answers.
Jim Horne notes:

The black squares across the middle spell "Jr" in this puzzle about Juniors.

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© 2011, The New York Times5/5/11 ( No. 22,458 )
Across
1
It's bisected by the Missouri R. : SDAK
5
Fatiguing : HARD
9
Drain : EMPTY
14
About half of many schedules : HOMEGAMES
16
Bygone coins : LIRAS
17
Gambler's jubilant cry : IMONAROLL
18
Camel, e.g. : SMOKE
19
One area of corporate law : MERGERS
20
One getting hit on at a party? : REEFER
21
Beam : RAY
22
"Deep Space Nine" role : ODO
24
Only bird with nostrils on the tip of its beak : KIWI
27
Chocolate substitute : CAROB
29
It has 10 sections : SAT
32
"Yeah, right!" : ASIF
33
Lime, e.g. : OXIDE
34
"A rabbi, a priest and a duck walk into ___ ..." : ABAR
36
Soccer period : HALF
37
Third-longest river in Africa : NIGER
38
Home to van Gogh's "The Starry Night," in brief : MOMA
39
It may be assumed : NAME
40
"___ of kindness, however small, is wasted": Aesop : NOACT
41
Sportswriters' picks, for short : MVPS
42
Islet : CAY
43
What this means in an e-mail: >:( : IMMAD
44
"Couldn't agree more" : YEAH
45
Series of grisly cases : CSI
46
No longer used : OLD
48
Presidential first name : BARACK
53
Knit pick? : SWEATER
57
Old Glory's land, for short : USOFA
58
Figure in a 5-4 Supreme Court decision : SWINGVOTE
60
Summer Olympics athlete : DIVER
61
Enters as a disorderly group : PILESINTO
62
Stays awake nights, maybe : STEWS
63
Associate : ALLY
64
Gets : SEES
Down
1
Thin wedge : SHIM
2
Nonrectangular part of a skyline : DOME
3
Theme for Julio Iglesias : AMOR
4
Baseball star : KENGRIFFEY
5
Jazz/pop singer : HARRYCONNICK
6
Book after Joel : AMOS
7
First Amendment subj. : REL
8
Verizon service : DSL
9
Additionally : ELSE
10
Street performer : MIME
11
T.A., someday? : PROF
12
Bit of filming : TAKE
13
North Sea feeder : YSER
15
Mother Earth : GAEA
20
Actor : ROBERTDOWNEY
22
Paper tiger, e.g. : ORIGAMI
23
Twelve: Prefix : DODECA
24
Architect Louis : KAHN
25
Deep-voiced Hayes : ISAAC
26
TV mother of Pebbles : WILMA
28
They're universally accepted : AXIOMS
29
Singer/dancer/actor : SAMMYDAVIS
30
Over : ABOVE
31
City known as the Big Guava : TAMPA
35
Without consideration : RASH
47
Stems, so to speak : LEGS
48
Some brewskis : BUDS
49
___ were : ASIT
50
Not stay put : ROVE
51
Not too many : AFEW
52
Hit 2006 Disney-Pixar film : CARS
53
Place for a potted plant : SILL
54
Timbre : TONE
55
Cigar's end? : ETTE
56
Flying Cloud and Royale 8 : REOS
58
Place for complimentary bathrobes : SPA
59
Actor Wheaton : WIL

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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