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New York Times, Saturday, June 27, 2009

Author:
Trip Payne
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
20-Across : They're observed in the evening
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Trip Payne

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 33 Missing: {JQWX} This is puzzle # 39 for Mr. Payne. Saturday freshness: 62%
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© 2009, The New York Times6/27/9 ( No. 21,781 )
Across
1
Rock samples : DEMOTAPES
10
Rub together : GNASH
15
Any : ONEORMORE
16
"Proceed slowly" : LENTO
17
Salad ingredient : REDPEPPER
18
Keen : EAGER
19
Author of "Time's Arrow," 1991, a novel written in reverse chronological order : AMIS
20
They're observed in the evening : VESPERS
22
Actress Scala : GIA
23
Henchmen : LACKEYS
27
"Pushing Daisies" star ___ Pace : LEE
28
Lights : SETSONFIRE
30
Punk : HOOD
31
Uncomfortable, in a way : SELFCONSCIOUS
33
Québec's Festival d'___ : ETE
34
Post ___ (after-the-fact) : HOC
35
Start of a confession : BLESSMEFATHER
42
Auto finish? : CRAT
43
Influential 1996 video game : TOMBRAIDER
45
Drink whose name suggests its vitamin content : HIC
46
Yellow squares, often : POSTITS
47
Sch. founded by a president : UVA
48
Receiver of some contributions : ROTHIRA
50
Year that Acre fell in the First Crusade : MCIV
51
Freeze : ICEUP
52
Uncomfortable : ILLATEASE
57
Oil source : SHALE
58
Contents of a certain household box : CATLITTER
59
Relates to : TELLS
60
Cocktails lacking hard liquor : SPRITZERS
Down
1
Rappers' wrappers : DORAGS
2
They're opposed : ENEMIES
3
Talk to two 2-Down, say : MEDIATE
4
Mumble after a fumble : OOPS
5
Hero of "Boyz N the Hood" : TRE
6
Excite, with "up" : AMP
7
___ psychology : POP
8
Outmoded preposition : ERE
9
Waitstaff : SERVERS
10
Actress co-starring in TV's "Burn Notice" : GLESS
11
Spring's opposite : NEAP
12
"Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie" poet : ANGELOU
13
They're often playing at home : STEREOS
14
Cut up, with "around" : HORSED
21
It begins with an E (in two ways) : EYECHART
23
Throws up : LOFTS
24
Genealogical discovery : ANCESTOR
25
Budgetary bigwig, for short : CFO
26
They have connections : KIN
29
Some pellets : SLEET
30
___ Minh : HOCHI
32
Is in Athens? : IOTAS
35
French bread : BRIOCHE
36
Milky : LACTEAL
37
Multipart art : MOSAICS
38
Defibrillator user, for short : EMT
39
RICO Act enforcer : FBI
40
School : EDUCATE
41
Agent of change : REVISER
42
Word that first appears in Matthew 1:1 : CHRIST
44
Movie critics, sometimes : RAVERS
46
Water bearers : PIPES
49
Bottom of the sea? : HULL
50
Birthplace of poet Paul Verlaine : METZ
53
You could stand to lose it : LAP
54
Delta, for one: Abbr. : LTR
55
BBC's Sports Personality of the Century : ALI
56
Black-throated ___ (Asian bird) : TIT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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