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New York Times, Friday, November 22, 2013

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
9-Down : Modelists' purchases
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Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 30 Missing: {YZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 181 for Mr. Berry. Friday freshness: 70%
Will Shortz notes:
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© 2013, The New York Times11/22/13 ( No. 23,390 )
Across
1
Milk additive : BOSCO
6
TV actor who lived, appropriately, in Hawaii : JACKLORD
14
Hoyt who wrote "Joy to the World" : AXTON
15
Go-getter on the hunt? : RETRIEVER
16
Catch : SNARE
17
Reverse order? : ABOUTFACE
18
"Wrong" way to spell a world leader's name in a New York Times crossword, according to a 1999 episode of "The West Wing" : QADDAFI
20
Gets ensconced : NESTLES
21
Altdorf's canton : URI
22
19th-century abbot and scientist : MENDEL
24
Word that begins with an apostrophe : TIS
25
Cheese made from the milk of Friesian cows : EDAM
27
Reposes : LIES
28
Relative of a leek : CHIVE
30
Otherworldly : ALIEN
32
Showing irritation : PAINED
33
On-deck circle? : LIFEPRESERVER
36
First name in pop : CELINE
37
Arm bones : ULNAE
38
Charles who was born Angelo Siciliano : ATLAS
39
Reproductive cell : OVUM
40
Bar in a shower stall : SOAP
44
Moniker : TAG
45
Johns Hopkins program : PREMED
47
Beat oneself up about : RUE
48
Authorized, as to read secrets : CLEARED
51
Paternity prover : DNATEST
53
Dicey issue : HOTPOTATO
55
Light-reflecting shade : WHITE
56
Deep-fried treat : ONIONRING
57
Third-place finisher in 2004 and 2008 : NADER
58
Unwelcome benchmark? : WETPAINT
59
Cygnet's parents : SWANS
Down
1
Language of Navarre : BASQUE
2
City that hosts the California Strawberry Festival : OXNARD
3
Places for races : STADIA
4
Drapery attachment : CORD
5
Wee hour : ONEAM
6
One of the Bushes : JEB
7
Makes up (for) : ATONES
8
Monstrous : CRUEL
9
Modelists' purchases : KITS
10
Took a powder : LEFT
11
Milk additive : OVALTINE
12
Stereo system component : RECEIVER
13
Showing some wear? : DRESSED
15
Only so-called "Decade Volcano" in the continental U.S. : RAINIER
19
___ González, longest-serving democratically elected Spanish P.M. : FELIPE
23
Star of Buñuel's "Belle de Jour" : DENEUVE
26
Group that offers "protection" : MAFIA
28
Beloved, in Bologna : CARA
29
Possible skin test reaction : HIVES
31
Cinematography choice : LENS
32
Scribes : PENMEN
33
Never mind : LETALONE
34
Phone line? : ILLGETIT
35
Title sort of person in 2008's Best Picture : SLUMDOG
36
Purina product : CATCHOW
39
Officially make : ORDAIN
41
Brand in the frozen food aisle : OREIDA
42
"Northanger Abbey" novelist : AUSTEN
43
Dwindles to nothing, with "out" : PETERS
45
___ dish : PETRI
46
Begins to develop : DAWNS
49
Each : APOP
50
Author Jaffe : RONA
52
Détente : THAW
54
Shell filler : TNT

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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