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New York Times, Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Author:
David Murchie
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
48-Down : ___ Lama
TotalDebutLatest
24/14/20051/26/2011
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David Murchie

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQVZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Murchie. Wednesday freshness: 41%
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© 2011, The New York Times1/26/11 ( No. 22,359 )
Across
1
With 65-Across, the starts of 20-, 26-, 43- and 51-Across taken together : NEAR
5
Scopes Trial org. : ACLU
9
Place for scrubs : BENCH
14
Start of an incantation : ABRA
15
"Double" facial feature : CHIN
16
Normandy beach : OMAHA
17
Assault or battery : TORT
18
"Please?" : CANI
19
React to mold, perhaps : RIPEN
20
Alien abductions, e.g. : CLOSEENCOUNTERS
23
Command to a plow horse : HAW
24
It's fairly insensitive to shock, fortunately : TNT
25
Houston-to-K.C. direction : NNE
26
"All kidding aside ..." : BUTSERIOUSLY
32
Menu heading : SALADS
35
"Au Revoir, ___ Enfants" (1987 film) : LES
36
___-chef : SOUS
37
Backspace through : ERASE
38
Get-up-and-go : PEP
39
Ring around the collar, say : DINGE
40
Chamonix setting : ALPS
41
Season box holder, e.g. : FAN
42
Like a par 5 hole vis-à-vis a par 3 : LONGER
43
Unwelcome sign for a sales rep : NOSOLICITING
46
"Aladdin" prince : ALI
47
"Open wide" sound : AAH
48
Center of a ball? : DEB
51
Magazine opposed to the Cuban trade embargo : CIGARAFICIONADO
57
Old and gray : HOARY
58
Signs, as a contract : INKS
59
Lena of "Chocolat" : OLIN
60
Composer Bruckner : ANTON
61
Astringent fruit : SLOE
62
Word with cut or exchange : RATE
63
Dry out, informally : DETOX
64
Salon acquisitions : TANS
65
See 1-Across : MISS
Down
1
"Why, of course!" : NATCH
2
Jungle menace : EBOLA
3
You might wait for it at a stoplight : ARROW
4
"Fiddlesticks!" : RATS
5
Dialect coaches teach them : ACCENTS
6
Monastery music : CHANTS
7
"The Mod Squad" role : LINC
8
Shop steward, briefly : UNIONREP
9
World's third-largest island : BORNEO
10
Release : EMIT
11
Mane area : NAPE
12
Mother of Chaz Bono : CHER
13
Brinker of children's lit : HANS
21
Exercise on the keys : ETUDE
22
Aussie colleges : UNIS
26
Low man at the Met : BASSO
27
Nicholas Gage best seller : ELENI
28
On drugs : USING
29
Something to break into : SONG
30
Race in a chute : LUGE
31
River in a 1914 battle : YSER
32
Rapper Combs a k a Diddy : SEAN
33
Alice's chronicler : ARLO
34
Swimmers do them : LAPS
38
Conscientious objector : PACIFIST
39
"Tiny Bubbles" singer : DONHO
41
Adidas competitor : FILA
42
Is a go-between : LIAISES
44
Adam's apple site : LARYNX
45
Add later : TACKON
48
___ Lama : DALAI
49
Magazine jobs : EDITS
50
Dice, slangily : BONES
51
2000 election scrap : CHAD
52
Skye of "Say Anything ..." : IONE
53
Intl. commerce pact replaced by the W.T.O. : GATT
54
Suffix with buck : AROO
55
"To Live and Die ___" : INLA
56
What's expected : NORM

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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