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New York Times, Saturday, December 2, 2006

Author:
Bob Klahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
38-Down : Thing that shrinks when inflated?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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Bob Klahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 25 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 51 for Mr. Klahn. Saturday freshness: 79%
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© 2006, The New York Times12/2/6 ( No. 20,843 )
Across
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Closing bars : TAPS
5
Leaves for dinner : SWISSCHARD
15
"The Green Hornet" trumpeter : HIRT
16
Mixed drink? : WINECOOLER
17
Whereabouts : AREA
18
Roosevelt Island locale : ANTARCTICA
19
Boxer on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" : LISTON
21
Battle of Endor fighter : EWOK
22
Submit : BOW
23
Brand of chips : INTEL
24
Thin fastener : BRAD
25
Anita Loos's autobiographical "A ___ Like I" : GIRL
26
Lots : AGOODMANY
28
Musical notation pioneer : GUIDO
29
Blows : FLUBS
30
Hamper : BASKET
31
Legs : STAMINA
34
Light housecoats : DUSTERS
35
It's said to be everything : TIMING
36
Third highest trump in card games : BASTA
37
Saxophonist great, familiarly : TRANE
38
Common reply to a parent's demand : DOIHAVETO
42
Plain sight : HERD
43
Inner ears : COBS
44
Ranger, e.g. : NHLER
45
Alexander Pope's "Solitude," e.g. : ODE
46
Unlocked? : BALD
47
Hybrid women's clothing : SKORTS
48
Jackpot : MOTHERLODE
51
Actress Petty of "A League of Their Own" : LORI
52
Park Avenue retailer? : AUTODEALER
53
Cross : SPAN
54
Not the biggest thoroughfare in town : STOPSTREET
55
Flap : TODO
Down
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Name shared by a Grace and a Muse : THALIA
2
Putting on : AIRING
3
Fast : PRESTO
4
Attitude : STATEOFMIND
5
Sweet ___ of Avon (epithet for Shakespeare) : SWAN
6
One in column A? : WIN
7
Washington posts : INTERNS
8
Main lane : SEAWAY
9
Provincetown entree : SCROD
10
Tilt : COCK
11
In : HOT
12
One making excuses : ALIBIIKE
13
Black box : RECORDER
14
Decide by chance : DRAWLOTS
20
Conservative : OLDLINE
24
Dessert whose name means "peasant woman" : BABA
25
English composer of the opera "The Perfect Fool" : GUSTAVHOLST
27
Kind of bean : MUNG
28
Regular container? : GASTANK
30
Amateurish : BUSH
31
Columbus discovery of 1493 : STTHOMAS
32
Wiped : TIREDOUT
33
Alabama slammer ingredient : AMARETTO
34
Toaster setting? : DAIS
36
Author of the memoir "One Soldier's Story" : BOBDOLE
38
Thing that shrinks when inflated? : DOLLAR
39
Cheap cigar, slangily : ELROPO
40
Monopoly's railroads, e.g. : TETRAD
41
"If music be the food of love, play on" speaker : ORSINO
43
Addition symbol : CARET
46
Sacks : BEDS
47
GE Building muralist : SERT
49
Spring : HOP
50
Grand finale? : DEE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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