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New York Times, Saturday, June 7, 2008

Author:
Karen M. Tracey
Editor:
Will Shortz
27-Across : Its players bow
TotalDebutLatest
325/6/20036/18/2010
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.6617687%
Karen M. Tracey

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 31 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 17 for Ms. Tracey. Saturday freshness: 48%
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© 2008, The New York Times6/7/8 ( No. 21,396 )
Across
1
Subject for a Venetian boat song : AMORE
6
Deflation indication : SSSS
10
Fleece : SCAM
14
Tanglewood Music Festival town : LENOX
15
Coast Guard noncoms : CPOS
16
Cager Kukoc : TONI
17
Track cover-up? : SWEATSHIRT
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Southern university : ELON
20
Nancy's home : LORRAINE
21
Diploma word : LAUDE
22
Hangover : KATZENJAMMER
24
Radiation unit : REM
27
Its players bow : VIOL
28
Like siblings : AKIN
29
Tanglewood concert hall dedicatee : OZAWA
31
Quality of glucose and fructose : ISOMERISM
35
Sorted, sort of : TRIAGED
37
1887 play on which a 1900 opera is based : LATOSCA
38
Solicited : CANVASSED
40
Behind : INTOW
41
___ cap : LENS
42
Foreign denial : NYET
44
Ways around: Abbr. : STS
45
1929 globe circumnavigator : GRAFZEPPELIN
49
"Jazz in Silhouette" composer : SUNRA
50
Earmark : ALLOCATE
53
Menu choice : UNDO
54
Summer cooler : ITALIANICE
56
Eight-state coast-to-coast rte. : ITEN
57
It's a square : NINE
58
Hewlett-Packard competitor : CANON
59
Slander, e.g. : TORT
60
Uitlander foe : BOER
61
Shelters : ASYLA
Down
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Zany comic Ritz and others : ALS
2
Act like a baby : MEWL
3
___ cat : ONEO
4
Cooper's role in "The Fountainhead," 1949 : ROARK
5
Big production : EXTRAVAGANZA
6
Some sufferers of personality disorders : SCHIZOIDS
7
Red gemstones : SPINELS
8
Tabitha formerly of MTV News : SOREN
9
Former boomer : SST
10
Audible small appliance : STEAMIRON
11
Some opinion offerers : COLUMNISTS
12
Part of a Crookes tube : ANODE
13
One in a rush? : MINER
18
Coll. entrance hurdle, once : SATI
21
High water? : LAKETITICACA
23
Drs.' reading since 1883 : JAMA
24
March grp.? : ROTC
25
Poisoned husband in "Mourning Becomes Electra" : EZRA
26
Many a Hawaiian tourist : MAINLANDER
30
Any one of the concentric circles in a ripple, in physics : WAVEFRONT
32
1957 film with the 1963 sequel "Savage Sam" : OLDYELLER
33
Bluebonnet : SCOT
34
Gorges : MAWS
36
Ab ___ (absent) : ESSE
39
Go into a cabin : ENPLANE
43
Repeated word in Mark 15:34 that means "my God" : ELOI
45
Attire for a trip around the world? : GSUIT
46
Total : RUNTO
47
Sunning spot : PATIO
48
Child tenders : NANAS
51
Atomic : TINY
52
Kyoto Protocol concern: Abbr. : ECOL
54
Like Brahms's Piano Trio No. 1 : INB
55
Disney deer : ENA

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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