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New York Times, Thursday, July 16, 2009

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
60-Across : Neither high nor low
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 This is puzzle # 169 for Ms. Gorski. Thursday freshness: 91%
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© 2009, The New York Times7/16/9 ( No. 21,800 )
Across
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Recreating : ATPLAY
7
Commercial prefix with vision : UNI
10
Election night figs. : PCTS
14
Ships whose rudders don't touch water : DIRIGIBLES
16
Sounds heard in a bowl : RAHS
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35-Across of 57-Across that equals 12-Down : ELEVENPLUSTWO
18
Medical suffix : OSIS
19
Bobsled challenges : ESSES
20
Aesthete : ARTLOVER
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The Big East's Panthers, for short : PITT
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They travel through tubes : OVA
24
Winter driving hazards : DRIFTS
26
Start of a Hemingway title : TOHAVE
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Less affluent : NEEDIER
29
French novelist Robert ___, upon whose work the 1973 thriller "The Day of the Dolphin" is based : MERLE
31
Philosopher Zeno of ___ : ELEA
32
Signature piece? : BIC
35
See 17- and 57-Across : ANAGRAM
38
Nav. rank : ENS
39
Container for folding scissors : ETUI
41
Something a chair may hold : GAVEL
42
Pie crust pattern : LATTICE
45
Rubber gaskets : ORINGS
49
Endocrinological prefix : ADRENO
50
Status follower : QUO
51
Tolkien villains : ORCS
53
Destination of Saul when he had his conversion, in the Bible : DAMASCUS
55
Reader of someone else's diary, say : SNOOP
56
Sparkling wine source : ASTI
57
35-Across of 17-Across that equals 12-Down : TWELVEPLUSONE
59
Mideast's Gulf of ___ : SUEZ
60
Neither high nor low : ATEYELEVEL
61
Half-dome construction : APSE
62
Govt. ID : SSN
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First arrival : ELDEST
Down
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"Take ___ breath" : ADEEP
2
Swiss cheese : TILSIT
3
Cry just before a rabbit appears? : PRESTO
4
Dwells in the past? : LIVETH
5
So, so long : AGES
6
Feminine side : YIN
7
Extraordinary : ULTRA
8
Red-spotted ___ : NEWT
9
Singer of the Wagner aria "Liebestod" : ISOLDE
10
Be a breadwinner : PROVIDE
11
Detective's work record : CASEFILE
12
Either 17- or 57-Across : THIRTEEN
13
Snake's warning : SSS
15
3.3 in a transcript, maybe : BPLUSAVERAGE
21
Lead from a mountain? : ORE
23
Brickmaking need : OVEN
25
Women of Andalucía: Abbr. : SRAS
27
Drs.' org. : AMA
28
With clammy hands, say : NERVOUSLY
30
N.Y.C. airport : LGA
32
Gymnastics coach Károlyi : BELA
33
Possible title for this puzzle : ITADDSUP
34
Deep discounts : CUTRATES
36
Britain's Royal ___ Club, for plane enthusiasts : AERO
37
1051, on a monument : MLI
40
Complete the I.R.S.'s Schedule A : ITEMIZE
43
___ fog : INA
44
Bob at the Olympics : COSTAS
46
Puzzled : NONPLUSED
47
Dig, with "on" : GROOVE
48
Servings at teas : SCONES
50
Doyenne : QUEEN
52
Like L-O-N-D-O-N : SPELT
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100-lb. units : CWTS
55
Bear's warning : SELL
56
Simile center : ASA
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Flashed sign : VEE

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

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