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New York Times, Saturday, June 11, 2016

Author:
Andrew Kingsley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
41-Across : One might start working on Black Friday
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Andrew Kingsley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 33 Missing: {QVZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Kingsley. Grid flow: 46.8 Saturday freshness: 56%
Andrew Kingsley notes:
I am surprised by how quickly my second puzzle appeared. It couldn't have come at a more fitting time. I'll be graduating from ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Some great feature answers, MALL SANTA and I CAN EXPLAIN my favorites. Nice to see these answers spread throughout the grid. Although ... read more
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© 2016, The New York Times6/11/16 ( No. 24,322 )
Across
1
Ones hanging around a deli? : SALAMIS
8
One face in the crowd? : WALDO
13
Poison also called white arsenic : RATSBANE
14
French siege site of 1597 : AMIENS
16
Children's song about avian anatomy : ALOUETTE
17
Lot : KISMET
18
Barrel holder : GUN
19
Something held at arm's length : SELFIESTICK
21
Neighbor of Windsor Castle : ETON
23
Priceline possibilities : INNS
24
I have, to Henri : JAI
25
Converts to pastureland, say : DEFORESTS
29
Nature : SORT
30
Equal: Prefix : PARI
31
Post-stunt provocation : TOPTHAT
34
Ill-fated, old-style : ACCURST
37
Aims : INTENTS
38
After the fact : TOOLATE
39
Grub for a grub : LEAF
40
Zebu feature : HUMP
41
One might start working on Black Friday : MALLSANTA
46
Debatable ability : ESP
47
Really go up : SOAR
49
Aye's opposite, poetically : NEER
50
"Hear me out" : ICANEXPLAIN
55
Whacking tool : GAT
56
Way cool, in modern lingo : SODOPE
57
Like lingerie : INTIMATE
59
James who edited the O.E.D. : MURRAY
60
Bare-bones : SKELETAL
61
Bobby who co-founded the Black Panthers : SEALE
62
Like some unions : SAMESEX
Down
1
Toast, e.g. : SALUTE
2
Untold : ATONOF
3
Where Shaq won the Adolph Rupp Trophy : LSU
4
Two of them are worth a sawbuck : ABES
5
Winning move : MATE
6
Involving multiple states: Abbr. : INTL
7
Deem appropriate : SEEFIT
8
Stir : WAKEN
9
Off : AMISS
10
Tilt : LIST
11
Home brewing vessel : DEMIJOHN
12
About 2% of the Hope Diamond : ONECARAT
13
Was spitting nails : RAGED
15
One of the Leewards : STKITTS
20
Establish gradually : INSTILL
22
Tropicana label specification : NOPULP
26
Hardly seen, to Seneca : RARA
27
Way back then, way back when : ERST
28
Certain Internet diagram : SITEMAP
29
Fatsis who wrote the best-selling "Word Freak" : STEFAN
32
Student taking Civil Procedure, most likely : ONEL
33
Some car wash grps. : PTAS
34
"The vice of a few intelligent people," per Voltaire : ATHEISM
35
Alternative to quinoa : COUSCOUS
36
Sancho Panza, to Don Quixote : COMPADRE
42
Third-ever Best Actor Oscar winner : ARLISS
43
Nix : NEGATE
44
Source of resentment in the Colonies in the 1770s : TEATAX
45
Soviet co-op : ARTEL
47
Monkshood flower's "hood" : SEPAL
48
Baroque window : OXEYE
51
Dunn formerly of "S.N.L." : NORA
52
"Annette Sings ___" (1960 pop album) : ANKA
53
Couple : ITEM
54
Elephantine Island is in it : NILE
58
Mayo, for one : MES

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

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