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New York Times, Saturday, August 9, 2008

Author:
Mark Diehl
Editor:
Will Shortz
31-Across : Not touching
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
31.57592888%
Mark Diehl

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 27 Missing: {JQWXZ} This is puzzle # 45 for Mr. Diehl. Saturday freshness: 93%
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F
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© 2008, The New York Times8/9/8 ( No. 21,459 )
Across
1
One looking for a kiss : FROGPRINCE
11
Heap of hay : RICK
15
Stabilized : LEVELEDOUT
16
Knowing firsthand : INON
17
Setting for a 1979 horror film : AMITYVILLE
18
Often winded part : VANE
19
Rips : PANS
20
Stack buildup : SOOT
21
Tied up in knots : TENSE
22
Spring's opposite : NEAP
24
Nation once called Île de France : MAURITIUS
26
Spot for a rock band's logo : BASSDRUM
28
Year in the reign of Macbeth, in Scottish history : MLI
29
[I told you so!] : SMIRK
31
Not touching : SEPARATE
33
Blow apart : SHATTER
35
Thins out : DILUTES
36
"Voilà!" : HEREITIS
38
"Luck and Pluck" author : ALGER
39
Military asst. : ADC
40
Nixed : SCOTCHED
42
O, in Morse code : DAHDAHDAH
44
Element of Times Square : NEON
47
___ Hunt, Tom Cruise's character in "Mission: Impossible" films : ETHAN
48
Double-bonded compound : ENOL
50
Latin 101 verb : AMAS
52
P. Diddy's first name : SEAN
53
Chocolate source : COCOAPLANT
55
Crew members : OARS
56
Sibyl's forte : PRESCIENCE
57
At leisure : FREE
58
One of the 1960s Rams' Fearsome Foursome : ROSEYGRIER
Down
1
Big to-do : FLAP
2
Provide with new staff : REMAN
3
Like Dolly or her clones : OVINE
4
Has some luck fishing : GETSABITE
5
Practice : PLY
6
Amps up : REVS
7
They're seldom taken literally : IDIOMS
8
Parts of some portfolios, informally : NOLOADS
9
Man-made : CULTURED
10
French quarter? : ETE
11
Transfix : RIVET
12
Like a rock : INANIMATE
13
Chiromancer client, e.g. : CONSULTER
14
Under-the-table action : KNEESIES
21
Voice of Buzz Lightyear, in "Toy Story" : TIMALLEN
23
Rooter : PARTISAN
25
Indonesian capital : RUPIAH
27
First rendering, say : SKETCH
29
More than mist up : SHEDATEAR
30
Tea drinker of fiction : MARCHHARE
32
Certain bazaar merchant : RUGDEALER
33
Like : SHADESOF
34
Part of Western Sahara : RIODEORO
37
Plate appearances : STANCES
41
Cull : CHOOSE
43
Étoile's element : DANSE
45
Gulf state resident : OMANI
46
"Eraserhead" star Jack : NANCE
49
Like cobwebs : LACY
51
Team follower? : STER
53
Some chest-pounding, for short : CPR
54
Metal mold, as from a blast furnace : PIG

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

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