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New York Times, Friday, July 31, 2009

Author:
Mike Nothnagel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
35-Across : Something not on the menu
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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431.6633377%
Mike Nothnagel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Missing: {QUVX} This is puzzle # 34 for Mr. Nothnagel. Friday freshness: 3%
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© 2009, The New York Times7/31/9 ( No. 21,815 )
Across
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"___ better be!" : ITHAD
6
Factory staple : DIE
9
Abbr. in a "works cited" list : ETAL
13
"I'm not done yet!" : THERESMORE
16
It's passed on : LORE
17
Oscar-nominated portrayer of Frida Kahlo : SALMAHAYEK
18
Discipline : AREA
19
Financial statement abbr. : YTD
20
Reason to make a prank call, maybe : DARE
21
What a player may mean by knocking on the table : IPASS
22
Relatively close : WITHINEARSHOT
26
Subject of the 1955 film "The Last Command" : ALAMO
28
Baby shower gift : ONESIE
29
Band members with long necks? : SITARS
31
Many students on "Gilmore Girls" : ELIS
32
It's 11 miles NNW of JFK : LGA
35
Something not on the menu : SPECIAL
37
Roll top? : SCHMEAR
39
Certain correlative : NOR
40
Really appeal to : GRAB
42
Early TV news commentator famous for doing Timex ads : SWAYZE
43
Heads up : CHAIRS
45
Makes scarce : HIDES
46
Where a fouled player might go : FREETHROWLINE
50
Crystallizes : JELLS
51
Passage blockers : NOES
52
Stars participate in it: Abbr. : NHL
55
Pendant option : OPAL
56
Comics character with a "gang" : BAZOOKAJOE
59
Not be a nobody : RATE
60
Passage enabler : OPENSESAME
61
Not natural : DYED
62
Bond : WED
63
City in 1917 headlines : YPRES
Down
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Minute, informally : ITSY
2
"Not ___!" : THAT
3
Wasn't full of holes : HELDWATER
4
The Adriatic vis-à-vis the Mediterranean : ARM
5
Red-handed : DEADTORIGHTS
6
Helen Thomas in the White House press corps, e.g. : DOYENNE
7
Boiling point? : IRE
8
Cry of surprise : EEK
9
March on : ELAPSE
10
It contains 613 mitzvot : TORAH
11
"... love's shadows ___ rich in joy!": Romeo : ARESO
12
___ of all : LEAST
14
Onetime C.I.A.-backed foreign leader : SHAH
15
Plumber seen in an arcade : MARIO
21
Mayo sauce? : IRISHWHISKEY
23
Computer debut of 1998 : IMAC
24
They might store electric charges : EELS
25
Nike rival : ASICS
26
Part of M.P.A.A.: Abbr. : ASSN
27
Slimming option, for short : LIPO
30
Fast Eddie's girlfriend in "The Hustler" : SARAH
32
It might store an electric charge : LEYDENJAR
33
It's often piercing : GAZE
34
Vultures were sacred to him : ARES
36
Refuge : LAIR
38
Cardinal : MAIN
41
Like many beachgoers : BRONZED
43
Single-___ : CELLED
44
Become rapturous : SWOON
46
Product of glacial erosion : FJORD
47
Square things : REPAY
48
Make rapturous : ELATE
49
Independent, noble types, it's said : LEOS
53
Typist's position : HOME
54
Remains : LEES
56
It comes after the last number : BOW
57
Troglodyte : APE
58
"My baby at my breast," in Shakespeare : ASP

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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