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New York Times, Saturday, December 29, 2012

Author:
Joe Krozel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
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Joe Krozel

This puzzle:

Rows: 16, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 41 Missing: {JKQXZ} Spans: 6, (1 quintuple stack) Grid is asymmetric. This is puzzle # 61 for Mr. Krozel. Saturday freshness: 53%
Jim Horne notes:

This grid is notable for several reasons. Most remarkably, it's the first to stack five 15-letter answer words. That's an amazing accomplishment few believed possible. The grid is asymmetric. Notice the additional 15 in the top half but none in the bottom half. (I've long held that strict adherence to symmetry limits interesting grid and theme possibilities. Would a quintuple-stack be possible if symmetry were required? Do you care?) And finally, this is the first puzzle dropping HORSE MANURE into the grid.

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© 2012, The New York Times12/29/12 ( No. 23,062 )
Across
1
Urban contemporary : TRITT
6
"Git!" : SCRAM
11
Sports org. of 1967-76 : ABA
14
Olive-colored bird : VIREO
15
World powerhouse in table tennis : CHINA
16
Word of logic : NOR
17
Bygone theory of astronomy : PTOLEMAICSYSTEM
20
Blanket : GENERAL
21
Round parts : BEERS
22
Hideous one : REPULSER
26
Get-___ (starts) : GOS
29
Obituary word : NEE
30
Bugs : VWS
33
"Ugly Betty" actress : VANESSAWILLIAMS
39
Governor, e.g. : ELECTEDOFFICIAL
40
"Idylls of the King," stylistically : NARRATIVEPOETRY
41
1959 doo-wop classic : ATEENAGERINLOVE
42
Alpine native : LIECHTENSTEINER
43
"Grazie ___!" (Italian for "Thank God!") : ADIO
44
Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dan : ISSEL
45
Thrust item : EPEE
48
Uses for a base : RESTSON
50
Balderdash : HORSEMANURE
54
E.E.C. part: Abbr. : EUR
55
It may be bitter : ALE
56
"I did it!" : SUCCESS
57
Grp. in gray : CSA
58
Gridiron distance: Abbr. : YDS
59
Sporting boots, say : SHOD
Down
1
Tube rating : TVPG
2
It may be performed by people in robes : RITE
3
Unyielding : IRON
4
Part of 1-Down : TELE
5
"___ is human ..." : TOERR
6
It has thousands of roots : SCALP
7
Half of a classic religious symbol : CHI
8
___-A-Che (rapper) : RIC
9
Response: Abbr. : ANS
10
Wishy-washy reply : MAYBE
11
Deal preceder : ANTE
12
Participant in an 1899 conflict : BOER
13
___ deal : ARMS
18
Risqué West : MAE
19
Ones to whom an organization's messages are sent : SERVICELIST
23
Frayed, perhaps : UNWOVEN
24
Funny Carol and family : LEIFERS
25
"Woe is me!" types : SELFPITIERS
26
Land visited by Paul in the New Testament : GALATIA
27
Clarinet need : ONEREED
28
Concealments : SECRECIES
31
"I'll be right with you" : WAITONESEC
32
Elided phrase in a Gershwin song : SMARVELOUS
33
Easily corrupted : VENAL
34
One-seat carriages : STANHOPES
35
Assailed : SETAT
36
Verona's river : ADIGE
37
They have their pride : LIONESSES
38
More crafty : SLYER
46
Certain bird herd : EMUS
47
Per : EACH
48
Wished otherwise : RUED
49
Supporter of the Heller decision, 2008: Abbr. : NRA
50
Allergy source : HAY
51
Played out : OLD
52
Abbr. after a telephone no. : RES
53
One with two or three stripes: Abbr. : NCO

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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