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New York Times, Saturday, June 18, 2005

Author:
Sherry O. Blackard
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : Floating lure
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Sherry O. Blackard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 25 Missing: {JQVX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 41 for Ms. Blackard. Saturday freshness: 97%
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© 2005, The New York Times6/18/5 ( No. 20,311 )
Across
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Canal adjuncts : TOWPATHS
9
Levelers : SHIMS
14
Where Yankee Doodle stuck a feather : INHISHAT
15
Present request : OPENIT
16
One of many at the U.N. headquarters : FLAGPOLE
17
Floating lure : DRYFLY
18
Less likely to be winded : FITTER
19
The best you can be, Freudian-style : EGOIDEAL
21
Like Atahualpa : INCAN
22
Nasdaq debut : IPO
23
Having 9-Downs, maybe : GARNI
24
Royal Crown product : NEHI
25
Part of an electrolytic exchange : ANION
27
California's Santa ___ Valley : YNEZ
28
Sufferer of a crushing defeat in 1936 : ALFLANDON
31
Nasdaq relative : ASE
32
Distressed ones? : DAMSELS
34
Sat in the hot sun : BROILED
36
Waterfront org. : ILA
37
Medley group : RELAYTEAM
39
Elite alternative : PICA
41
Bob preceder : SIREE
42
___-Utu (capital of Wallis and Futuna) : MATA
45
Angle irons : LBARS
47
Old Serbian capital : NIS
48
Makes small potatoes of? : RICES
49
Dash indicator : OILGAUGE
51
Calms : HUSHES
52
Half-___ (track specialists) : MILERS
53
She went down in 1898 : THEMAINE
55
Like : AKINTO
56
Some are wind-powered : TURBINES
57
Bobbery : SETTO
58
Emery boards, e.g. : ABRADERS
Down
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Lunch, in Lancaster : TIFFIN
2
Seeing the sites? : ONLINE
3
4
Queues in salons : PIGTAILS
5
Fall film festival site : ASPEN
6
Iron-gloved one : THOR
7
Sutton of the P.G.A. : HAL
8
Saturate with : STEEPIN
9
Shoot : SPRIG
10
Prime time : HEYDAY
11
Land mine, e.g. : INFERNALMACHINE
12
Alla ___ (dipped in beaten eggs, then in breadcrumbs/Parmesan, and fried in butter) : MILANESE
13
Conformed to a certain art treatment : STYLIZED
15
Prefix with meter : ODO
20
Waves often accompany them : GOODBYES
22
Like many an injured arm : INASLING
25
Frankfurter's "everything" : ALLES
26
One of four direcciones : NORTE
29
Ending with two : FER
30
Arca de ___ (boat in la biblia) : NOE
32
Psychiatrists' hang-ups? : DIPLOMAS
33
1915 Ring Lardner story : ALIBIIKE
35
1971 Neil Diamond hit : IAMISAID
38
Puccini's "O mio babbino caro," e.g. : ARIETTA
40
Silver, in heraldry : ARGENT
43
Youth : TEENER
44
Put a duty on : ASSESS
46
Giuseppe ___ a k a Pope Pius X : SARTO
48
So-called "dance of love" : RUMBA
50
"For the Boys" subj. : USO
51
Title of respect abroad : HERR
54
Activity center : HUB

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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