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New York Times, Monday, June 6, 2011

Author:
Gary Whitehead
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
1-Across : Initials for 56-Across
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Gary J. Whitehead

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Whitehead. Monday freshness: 88%
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© 2011, The New York Times6/6/11 ( No. 22,490 )
Across
1
Initials for 56-Across : USMA
5
Beginning on : ASOF
9
Scottish landowner : LAIRD
14
Grand ___ (annual race) : PRIX
15
Scruff : NAPE
16
Take in or let out : ALTER
17
Serving on a jury, e.g. : CIVICDUTY
19
Mean-spirited : NASTY
20
Elvis's "Blue ___ Shoes" : SUEDE
21
Look up to : ADMIRE
22
Channel with "Anderson Cooper 360°" : CNN
25
Bride's attendant : MAIDOFHONOR
27
Get a closer look, as with a camera : ZOOMIN
29
Molten tar, e.g. : GOO
30
Not an accidental fire : ARSON
31
Saintly glow : HALO
33
Some NCOs : SGTS
37
Sudden military action : RAID
38
Enrollee at 56-Across : CADET
39
Magazine fig. : CIRC
40
Armenia and Azerbaijan, once: Abbr. : SSRS
41
Fashionable Christian : DIOR
42
Jug band instrument : KAZOO
43
Noah's boat : ARK
44
Clean, as a floor : WETMOP
45
Rural area : BACKCOUNTRY
51
Unlock, in verse : OPE
52
Sanctuary : ASYLUM
53
Father and victim of Oedipus : LAIUS
55
Play lightly, as a guitar : STRUM
56
School whose motto consists of the last words of 17-, 25- and 45-Across : WESTPOINT
60
Pan-fry : SAUTE
61
Commedia dell'___ : ARTE
62
Aviated : FLEW
63
"A Doll's House" playwright : IBSEN
64
River of Flanders : YSER
65
Sax type : ALTO
Down
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It's scanned at checkout: Abbr. : UPC
2
___ Lanka : SRI
3
1,004, in old Rome : MIV
4
W.W. II foe, with "the" : AXIS
5
Like llamas and Incas : ANDEAN
6
Riyadh resident : SAUDI
7
Made a choice : OPTED
8
Tina of "30 Rock" : FEY
9
Cry from a crow's-nest : LANDHO
10
1836 battle site : ALAMO
11
"___ the bag" : ITSIN
12
Fashionable again : RETRO
13
Alternative to a clothesline : DRYER
18
Curry ingredient : CUMIN
21
"The game is ___": Sherlock Holmes : AFOOT
22
Ivan, Nicholas and Peter : CZARS
23
Author Ephron and others : NORAS
24
Military denial : NOSIR
26
Leering sort : OGLER
28
Hip '60s types : MODS
31
Poem with exactly 17 syllables : HAIKU
32
Hoopla : ADO
33
"Shoo!" : SCAT
34
Thingamajig : GIZMO
35
Army unit : TROOP
36
Rifle attachment : SCOPE
38
Electronic storage device : CDROM
42
Excite : KEYUP
43
Keenness of mind : ACUMEN
44
Blogger, for one : WRITER
45
Low-voiced singers : BASSI
46
Take ___ at (try) : ASTAB
47
"Hannah Montana" star Miley : CYRUS
48
1971 Jane Fonda/Donald Sutherland film : KLUTE
49
Padres and Pirates, informally : NLERS
50
First small bite : TASTE
54
Divan : SOFA
56
Modus operandi : WAY
57
Under the weather : ILL
58
Equipment in badminton and fishing : NET
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Start of D.C.'s ZIP codes or area code : TWO

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

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