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New York Times, Saturday, September 1, 2007

Author:
Karen M. Tracey
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Across : Size in a lingerie shop
TotalDebutLatest
325/6/20036/18/2010
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.6617686%
Karen M. Tracey

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {W} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 14 for Ms. Tracey. Saturday freshness: 63%
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© 2007, The New York Times9/1/7 ( No. 21,116 )
Across
1
Backup : PLANB
6
Squirts : TOTS
10
Size in a lingerie shop : CCUP
14
Music maker "played" by the wind : EOLIANHARP
16
Basse-Normandie department : ORNE
17
Stereotypical nerd : POINDEXTER
18
2004-06 poet laureate Kooser and others : TEDS
19
Boards : ENTERS
20
Fluffy, perhaps : HOUSEPET
22
Tears : RACES
24
Trainee : CADET
25
Zodiac symbol : RAM
28
___ Britannica : PAX
29
Navajo handicrafts : SERAPES
31
Car rental company founder Warren : AVIS
33
Country with coups d'état in 2000 and 2006 : FIJI
35
Airline purchased by T.W.A. in 1986 : OZARK
36
Cellist who debuted at London's Wigmore Hall at age 16 : JACQUELINEDUPRE
39
Invite to one's penthouse suite : ASKUP
40
Robed dignitary : EMIR
41
Fen bender : REED
42
Availed : STEADED
44
It lands at Landvetter : SAS
46
Holders of shoulders: Abbr. : RDS
47
Ancient Greek sculptor famous for his athletes in bronze : MYRON
48
Inclusive pronoun : HESHE
50
Cautious people stay on it : SAFESIDE
52
Shakespearean scholar Edmond : MALONE
56
Problem ending : ATIC
57
Expensive choice for a commuter : GASGUZZLER
59
Big name in contact lens cleaners : RENU
60
"Madame Butterfly," updated : MISSSAIGON
61
Peer on a stage : GYNT
62
Being tossed, maybe : ASEA
63
Statistical calculations : MEANS
Down
1
Tio ___ (sherry brand) : PEPE
2
Crazy : LOON
3
Set down : ALIT
4
Bronc rival : NINER
5
Wrongful slammer sentence, say : BADRAP
6
Appreciation abbreviation : THX
7
Curses : OATHS
8
Palm smartphone : TREO
9
Smart : SPRUCE
10
Fashionable resort area : COTEDAZUR
11
Piñata decoration : CREPEPAPER
12
Not put off : UNDETERRED
13
Raid victim : PEST
15
Instant success? : NESCAFE
21
Indian lute : SAROD
23
Like Shakespeare's Prospero, e.g. : EXILED
25
Javanese chiefs : RAJAS
26
Salt halter : AVASTMATEY
27
It'll knock you out after you knock it back : MICKEYFINN
29
1996 Golden Globe winner for "Truman" : SINISE
30
Variety listings : SKEDS
32
Like some diamonds : SQUARECUT
34
Lord of fiction : JIM
37
Beehives, e.g. : UPDOS
38
He wrote "In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king" : ERASMUS
43
Knot : ENIGMA
45
Gomer Pyle expletive : SHAZAM
48
Where the Fulda flows : HESSE
49
Cartoonist Segar : ELZIE
50
Pioneering puppeteer : SARG
51
Place of honor : DAIS
53
Grammy-winning merengue singer Tañón : OLGA
54
Rialto sign : NEON
55
Coastal avifauna : ERNS
58
Fed. property overseer : GSA

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

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