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New York Times, Friday, September 28, 2012

Author:
Ed Sessa
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
51-Across : Milk curdler
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Edward Sessa

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 26 Missing: {HJQX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Sessa. Friday freshness: 75%
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A
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L
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V
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A
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M
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S
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S
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A
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G
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O
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N
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A
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W
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C
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T
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P
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D
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C
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F
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A
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Y
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S
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K
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C
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D
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Y
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R
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N
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I
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P
R
O
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T
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A
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L
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B
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V
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Z
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A
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B
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C
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M
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R
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A
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B
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W
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© 2012, The New York Times9/28/12 ( No. 22,970 )
Across
1
Menlo Park middle name : ALVA
5
Musical with the song "Bui Doi" : MISSSAIGON
15
Receives, as a visitor : SEES
16
What cosmologists wonder : AREWEALONE
17
Word for quitters : CANT
18
Got through : PENETRATED
19
Heat : ESTRUS
21
Gorge : SATE
22
Aquí, across the Pyrénées : ICI
23
Dovetail part : TENON
24
Be feeble-minded : DOTE
25
Like some mus. notes : STAC
26
Judge in 1990s news : ITO
27
Neverland resident : FAIRY
29
Maker of a special-delivery flight : STORK
30
What shows its ribs? : CORDUROY
32
Things that are shot or fought : ROUNDS
33
One way to resign : INPROTEST
35
St. ___ (English boys' school founded in 948) : ALBANS
38
Stadium ear piercer : VUVUZELA
42
Chicken's yellow part? : BELLY
43
Swing a thurible around : CENSE
44
Texas hoopster : MAV
45
Phishing lure? : SCAM
46
Arabian parent : SIRE
47
Eclipse alternative : MIATA
49
Like chestnuts : OLD
50
It may follow a cut : DEAL
51
Milk curdler : RENNET
52
Classic Robert Burns poem, with "A" : REDREDROSE
55
Certain something : AURA
56
Be disengaging? : BREAKADATE
57
Grow tiresome : WEAR
58
People person : SCREENIDOL
59
Some brackets : ELLS
Down
1
Mahatma Gandhi, for one : ASCETIC
2
Provide for tenancy : LEASETO
3
Atlantic follower, in Monopoly : VENTNOR
4
Turf leader? : ASTRO
5
Hikers' helpers : MAPS
6
Madness : IRE
7
Potential downside of the information age : SENSORYOVERLOAD
8
Hyperhidrotic : SWEATY
9
Otto goes after it : SETTE
10
Swiss banks may be affiliated with it : AARE
11
Pier grp. : ILA
12
Began brawling : GOTITON
13
Draw for an inside straight, say : ONECARD
14
Old fast-food chain whose mascot's head was an orange : NEDICKS
20
Bombing at a comedy club : UNFUNNY
24
___ Homme (perfume brand) : DIOR
25
Blackhawk carmaker : STUTZ
28
MoMA's "Two Heads" and "Birds in an Aquarium" : ARPS
29
"Yeah, I did it ... oh well!" : SOSUEME
31
Directive for murder? : DIALM
32
Quick spins? : REVS
34
Whistler's production : TUNE
35
Rivets : ABSORBS
36
Tank named after a French W.W. II general : LECLERC
37
Inflatable lining : BLADDER
39
Daley's successor as mayor of Chicago : EMANUEL
40
Pass out on the field? : LATERAL
41
Some self-images : AVATARS
43
John who wrote the textbook "How Does a Poem Mean?" : CIARDI
46
Many a cab : SEDAN
48
Knocked out : INAWE
50
Fool on the ice : DEKE
51
Cousin of a jig : REEL
53
Singer Carly ___ Jepsen : RAE
54
Pou ___ (basis of operations) : STO

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

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