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New York Times, Friday, June 29, 2007

Author:
Mike Nothnagel
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Across : "David ___" (1934 Will Rogers film)
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Mike Nothnagel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 34 Missing: {V} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Nothnagel. Friday freshness: 86%
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© 2007, The New York Times6/29/7 ( No. 21,052 )
Across
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Sitcom character with a leather jacket that's now in the Smithsonian : THEFONZ
8
The New Yorker cartoonist William : STEIG
13
Taxing preinitiation period : HELLWEEK
15
Childish retort : ARENOT
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Have no dinner companions : EATALONE
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Make : RENDER
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They're numbered in golf : IRONS
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Fasten firmly : INFIX
22
Prefix with lateral : ISO
23
One prepared for church: Abbr. : SER
24
Quintillionth: Prefix : ATTO
25
Thai currency : BAHT
26
2004 Brad Pitt film : TROY
28
Agitate : CHURN
30
Scream : RIOT
31
Felicitous : APT
33
1974 Chicago hit : CALLONME
35
2002 sci-fi role for Hayden Christensen : ANAKINSKYWALKER
39
Teacher's request of a publisher : DESKCOPY
40
Capitol Records owner : EMI
41
Dancer Limón : JOSE
42
Moves laboriously : WADES
44
New York Cosmos' sports org. : NASL
48
Linear, briefly : ONED
49
Send a high-tech message : TEXT
50
Kind of season : FLU
51
They, to Thérèse : ILS
52
Classic arcade game character who hopped around a pyramid : QBERT
54
"David ___" (1934 Will Rogers film) : HARUM
56
Seat of Hillsborough County, N.H. : NASHUA
58
Nintendo game with exercises for mental acuity : BRAINAGE
60
Treats similar to Mallomars : SMORES
61
Local election campaign staple : YARDSIGN
62
Basketball defense : PRESS
63
Some shorts : SPEEDOS
Down
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Believer : THEIST
2
One catching some waves? : HEARER
3
California air station where Nixon landed after resigning in 1974 : ELTORO
4
Glazed dessert : FLAN
5
Mouse catchers : OWLS
6
Latin leader? : NEO
7
Crown : ZENITH
8
Garment worn over a choli : SARI
9
Bygone carnivore : TREX
10
"I should ___ die with pity": King Lear : EEN
11
Drawing medium : INDIAINK
12
Ends one's travels : GOESHOME
14
Omaha and Spokane were once in it : KENTUCKYDERBY
16
Competitor in a harness : TROTTER
21
Initial venture : FORAY
24
Ad directive : ACTNOW
25
Player of Dr. Kiley on "Marcus Welby, M.D." : BROLIN
27
Ran on and on : YAKKED
29
Giants are in it: Abbr. : NLWEST
32
Snap : PIC
34
Flight : LAM
35
Makes contact with : ADJOINS
36
Glower? : NEONLAMP
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One with a taxing job : ASSESSOR
38
Avalanche : SPATE
43
Hollywood crowd? : EXTRAS
45
Not stout : AFRAID
46
Ernie Bushmiller comics character : SLUGGO
47
Light measures : LUMENS
52
Survey part: Abbr. : QUES
53
Follower of the bottom line? : BASS
54
Screen : HIDE
55
"As I Lay Dying" character : ANSE
57
It ended when Francis II abdicated: Abbr. : HRE
59
Ernst contemporary : ARP

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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