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New York Times, Saturday, June 5, 2010

Author:
Samuel A. Donaldson
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
17-Across : Very tough thing to lick
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Samuel A. Donaldson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {QX} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Donaldson. Saturday freshness: 69%
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J
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© 2010, The New York Times6/5/10 ( No. 22,124 )
Across
1
Triumphant shout : JACKPOT
8
What some teens do on Saturday night : BABYSIT
15
Galina __, old Russian ballerina whose Moscow apartment is now a museum : ULANOVA
16
While restrained, as a dog : ONLEASH
17
Very tough thing to lick : NEMESIS
18
Impetuous sort : HOTSPUR
19
Thing with a bell guard : EPEE
20
Occupants of 33-Across : STEEDS
22
Boston skyscraper nickname, with "the" : PRU
23
Triumphant shout : AHA
24
"The Gypsy ___" ("Anything Goes" song) : INME
25
Reveal, to Shakespeare : SHEW
26
Org. concerned with court proceedings? : USTA
28
Dix follower : ONZE
29
Virgo's brightest star : SPICA
30
Triumphant shout : BINGO
32
Triumphant shout : HURRAY
33
Track adjuncts : STABLES
36
Of modern humans : SAPIENS
37
Triumphant shout : EUREKA
38
Triumphant shout : SWEET
39
Some small clubs : TREYS
40
Sweeping : EPIC
41
Large number : SCAD
45
Biographers' collections : ANAS
46
Faulkner's "Requiem for ___" : ANUN
47
Triumphant shout : OLE
48
Type on the left side?: Abbr. : DEM
49
Extreme : FRINGE
51
Shield border : ORLE
52
Players don't rush through them : ADAGIOS
54
Askew : SLANTED
56
Newsworthy : TOPICAL
57
Overwhelm, as with requests : BESIEGE
58
Take in : ENSNARE
59
Triumphant shout : YAHTZEE
Down
1
Capital near Excursion Inlet : JUNEAU
2
Hebrew leaders? : ALEPHS
3
Charged : CAMEAT
4
Human equivalent of a horse's stifle : KNEE
5
Getters of letters: Abbr. : POS
6
Sheep's genus : OVIS
7
Occasions to compare noses : TASTINGS
8
Part of the République tchèque : BOHEME
9
Thermionic tube part : ANODE
10
Their outsides are usually toasted : BLTS
11
Triumphant shout : YES
12
Blue shade : SAPPHIRE
13
"You betcha!" : ISURECAN
14
Unlikely places for stop signs : THRUWAYS
21
___ Angiolini (women's shoe brand) : ENZO
25
Sail extenders : SPRITS
27
St. Mary's and others : ABBEYS
28
29-Down's number, maybe : ONEA
29
Apartment V.I.P. : SUPE
31
Breeds : ILKS
32
Feminine "this," to Brutus : HAEC
33
Did some planning : SETADATE
34
Lit : TURNEDON
35
Sightseeing aids : AREAMAPS
36
Visits along the way : SWINGSBY
38
Like yarn : SPUN
40
Maroon : ENISLE
42
"Lost" character Ana Lucia ___ : CORTEZ
43
Hold : ALLEGE
44
Myers who wrote "Why Women Should Rule the World" : DEEDEE
46
Clamorous : AROAR
49
Medicare funder, briefly : FICA
50
Magna Graecia colony : ELEA
51
Not procrastinating : ONIT
53
Triumphant shout : GIN
55
It buried Herculaneum : ASH

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

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