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New York Times, Saturday, June 4, 2005

Author:
Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
55-Across : Spheres
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
10811/23/20014/6/202415
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1412393697
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
321.591,28194%
Byron Walden

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FJQVYZ} This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Walden. Saturday freshness: 88%
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© 2005, The New York Times6/4/5 ( No. 20,297 )
Across
1
Split components : SCOOPS
7
See 7-Down : USSTATE
14
Get ready for the long haul : TANKUP
15
Candlebearer, in Anglican services : TAPERER
16
Occult matters : ARCANA
17
Old French dynasty member : CAPETIAN
18
Letters for Alpha-Bits? : RDA
19
Theater request : SHHHH
21
Fats Waller's "___ Honey Are You?" : WHOSE
22
Broad : DAME
24
Twin cities Ulm and ___-Ulm : NEU
25
Big Cup maker : REESES
26
The ___ watch : ONETO
28
Lead role in "Hawaii Five-O" : MCGARRETT
30
Cartoonist who founded the Museum of Cartoon Art : MORTWALKER
32
Capital on the Colorado : AUSTINTEXAS
36
Wintertime Forest Service employee : SNOWRANGER
39
Item of apparel patented in 1913 : BRASSIERE
44
Bristles : SETAE
45
"The Phantom of the Opera" author : LEROUX
46
Literary inits. : RLS
48
Kitchen meas. : TBSP
49
Strand up north, say : ICEIN
50
Blotto : OILED
52
"What was ___ believe?" : ITO
53
Endangered wetland fowl : MOORHENS
55
Spheres : REALMS
57
Fell sharply? : POLEAXE
58
Refuse to go along with : BALKAT
59
Camp nuisance : SKEETER
60
Some bulbs : ONIONS
Down
1
"American Idol" quest : STARDOM
2
Girolamo ___, Italian mathematician who first published the solution to the general cubic equation : CARDANO
3
Captured, in a way : ONCAMERA
4
River in Irkutsk : OKA
5
"Sanity clause" and others : PUNS
6
1950's Braves pitching ace : SPAHN
7
The 45th 7-Across : UTAH
8
Gull : SAP
9
One given to diatribes : SPEWER
10
Restraint : TETHER
11
Not recitative : ARIOSE
12
Afternoon service : TEASET
13
Nobel-winning physicist Rutherford : ERNEST
17
Celebrity hinted at by the ends of 30-, 32- and 36-Across : CHUCKNORRIS
20
It marks the end of a shift : HEMLINE
23
"Some friend you are," more classically : ETTU
25
With more to be done? : RARER
27
Stinging remarks? : OWS
29
Kind of card : GETWELL
31
When some watch the local news : ATSIX
33
___ in xylophone : XAS
34
"Fisherman With ___" (1868 Frédéric Bazille painting) : ANET
35
Central figure at the fictional Ft. Baxter : SGTBILKO
37
Photography pioneer : EASTMAN
38
Puts back on one's blog : REPOSTS
39
Sights at many football games : BLIMPS
40
Get something done? : RECOOK
41
Iris part : AREOLE
42
Evening out? : SOIREE
43
Baby's beach necessity : SUNHAT
47
Croatian leader? : SERBO
50
Lollapalooza : ONER
51
Recipient of many referrals : DEAN
54
River to the English Channel : EXE
56
Quarry quasher of 1970 : ALI

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

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