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New York Times, Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Author:
Victor Fleming
Editor:
Will Shortz
55-Across : Humble reply to praise
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Victor Fleming

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {QVWZ} Spans: 4 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Fleming. Wednesday freshness: 95%
Victor Fleming notes:

For whatever reason, I wanted to have four 15-letter answers that could all be clued with the same one-word clue. Six months earlier I'd had a puzzle in the Times with a similar theme gimmick. Not to be overlooked are these entries, which I believe made the puzzle more attractive: ONE SHARE, NOT TAKEN, GOTTA GO, IN-OUT, I TRY.

The more theme squares a puzzle has, the harder it becomes to include multiple high-quality ILSAs in the non-theme fill.

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© 2008, The New York Times8/13/8 ( No. 21,463 )
Across
1
Forces : DINTS
6
Show off at the gym, say : FLEX
10
Fingered, briefly : IDED
14
Come ___ of the rain : INOUT
15
Disappeared : GONE
16
Rise by the shore : DUNE
17
20
Hardly anything : LITTLE
21
Melville title : OMOO
22
Atlantic City casino, with "the" : TAJ
23
Résumé datum : SALARY
25
Things from faraway lands : EXOTICA
27
29
Poetic preposition : ERE
30
"We ___ not amused" : ARE
31
Place to kick back : DEN
32
Grant portrayer : ASNER
35
Annual coll. basketball contest : NIT
37
Where to get off : DEPOT
41
Gasoline choice: Abbr. : REG
43
___ Smiley of "Sesame Street" : GUY
45
Cellular carrier? : RNA
46
52
Flatter, in a way : IMITATE
53
Binds in a bundle : SHEAFS
54
Therapists' org. : APA
55
Humble reply to praise : ITRY
57
___ Book Club : OPRAHS
59
62
The Stooges, e.g. : TRIO
63
Main idea : GIST
64
"S.N.L." alum Cheri : OTERI
65
Members in a 100-member club: Abbr. : SENS
66
Maker of moving walkways : OTIS
67
Pesach feast : SEDER
Down
1
Lock feature : DIAL
2
Canines' neighbors : INCISORS
3
Available : NOTTAKEN
4
Terrarium denizen : TURTLE
5
Like an inscribed pillar : STELAR
6
Some N.F.L. scores: Abbr. : FGS
7
Plumb crazy : LOCO
8
Paint type : ENAMEL
9
Reproduced, in a way : XEROXED
10
"Rise and Fall of ___ Amin" (1981 film) : IDI
11
Hoffman who has won two Oscars : DUSTIN
12
Tie up : ENLACE
13
Wedding hiree : DEEJAY
18
Spring Air rival : SERTA
19
Was imminent : LOOMED
24
Adventurers' tale : YARN
26
Music quality : TONE
27
Soup spherule : PEA
28
Neutral hue : BEIGE
33
Lead-in to while : ERST
34
Stick : REMAIN
36
Spots for soaks : TUBS
38
Served as an intro to : PREFACED
39
Corporate gadfly's purchase, maybe : ONESHARE
40
Make use of : TAP
42
"Bye now!" : GOTTAGO
44
Gleeful shout : YAHOO
46
Super Bowl XLII winners : GIANTS
47
Diamond authority : UMPIRE
48
Vitamin in liver : NIACIN
49
Miss Piggy's pal : KERMIT
50
Dupes : REPROS
51
Dojo discipline : KARATE
56
"___ Can" (Sammy Davis Jr. autobiography) : YESI
58
Move a bit : STIR
60
Ring victories, for short : KOS
61
Sumter and McHenry: Abbr. : FTS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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