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New York Times, Thursday, June 3, 2010

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
25-Across : How oysters may be served
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QZ} Spans: 2 Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. This is puzzle # 179 for Ms. Gorski. Thursday freshness: 79%
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© 2010, The New York Times6/3/10 ( No. 22,122 )
Across
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"Regrettably ..." : ALAS
5
Observant Muslim, at times : HAJI
9
One of the sisters in Chekhov's "Three Sisters" : MASHA
14
Wig out : GOBANANAS
16
___ ease : ILLAT
17
Utility's power-saving stratagem : ROLLINGBLACKOUT
19
A bit past lunch hour : ONETEN
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Like doodles : SCRAWLY
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Locale for Osama bin Laden : CAVE
24
Lot : TON
25
How oysters may be served : ONTHEHALFSHELL
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Fools : BOOBS
33
Have a reflection? : CAROM
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Mother of the winds, in Greek myth : EOS
36
"Pay ___ mind" : ITNO
37
Character in Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered" : SATAN
38
"Salute to the sun" discipline : YOGA
39
Mexican relative : TIA
40
Red head? : LENIN
41
Egypt's Temple of ___ : LUXOR
42
Fully, in a way : FLOORTOCEILING
45
Title word after "Pineapple" or "Maple Leaf" : RAG
46
1994 Jodie Foster role : NELL
47
Dress shop section : PETITES
51
Corkscrews and bow ties : PASTAS
56
Kookaburra : LAUGHINGJACKASS
59
___ Davis, first African-American to win a Heisman : ERNIE
60
"That blew right by me" : IMISSEDIT
61
Bring to ___ : ANEND
62
When repeated, capital city of 11,000 : PAGO
63
Wears (away) : EATS
Down
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Soil: Prefix : AGRO
2
Screwball : LOON
3
Fit : ABLE
4
Curer : SALT
5
Palindromic woman's name : HANNAH
6
Lee with a 2005 Oscar : ANG
7
Hook alternative : JAB
8
Lanai and Maui: Abbr. : ISLS
9
Tiny electrical measure : MICROHM
10
Saturated hydrocarbon : ALKANE
11
Not busy : SLOW
12
Cart : HAUL
13
Case worker: Abbr. : ATTY
15
Some family reuners : NIECES
18
Follows, as advice : ACTSON
22
Unoccupied : VACANT
23
"I won the lottery!" feeling : ELATION
25
End piece? : OBIT
26
"___ I can help it!" : NOTIF
27
Having harmony : TONAL
28
"John Adams" airer : HBO
29
Essential part of a grand tour : FRANCE
30
Pope with a 27-day pontificate : LEOXI
31
Prepare to tweet, say : LOGON
35
Puppeteer Tony : SARG
37
Composer Prokofiev : SERGEI
38
Broadway's Brynner : YUL
40
Couldn't take : LOATHED
41
Subject for Chagall and Cassatt : LILACS
43
Where the x and y axes meet : ORIGIN
44
Sun Bowl city : ELPASO
47
Subject of some bargaining : PLEA
48
Make : EARN
49
Get ready to play, say : TUNE
50
Presumptuous sort : SNIP
52
___-Ball : SKEE
53
"I did it!" : TADA
54
___ were : ASIT
55
Onetime J.F.K. arrivals : SSTS
57
TV-over-breakfast inits. : GMA
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It's often said to be "up" : JIG

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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