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New York Times, Thursday, December 30, 2010

Author:
Joe Krozel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
50-Down : Half-wit
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
877/7/20066/14/201815
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CircleScrabDebutFresh
51.4849785%
Joe Krozel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 48 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 41 for Mr. Krozel. Thursday freshness: 94%
Jim Horne notes:

This PDF file shows how the puzzle appeared in print where the theme is more elegantly displayed. Clue numbering in the print and electronic versions differ.

Seven long Across answers are made up of shorter words. 12 Across, "One in on the founding of a company", is CHAR+TERM+EMBER. Similarly, PLAN+TMAN+AGER, WIN+ETAS+TER, OPERA+TIN+GROOM, EAR+THAN+GEL, FORT+HERE+CORD, and NOTRE+SPAS+SING.

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M
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B
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O
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W
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R
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J
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A
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P
E
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O
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G
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K
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A
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D
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K
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© 2010, The New York Times12/30/10 ( No. 22,332 )
Across
1
Dull shade : ASH
4
Road caution : SLO
7
Place for a hammer : PIANO
12
One in on the founding of a company : CHARTERMEMBER
17
River of York : OUSE
18
Record label of the Beatles' "Ain't She Sweet" : ATCO
19
Spy sent by Moses into Canaan : CALEB
20
Production site chief : PLANTMANAGER
23
Wonder of note : STEVIE
25
Yes ___ : ORNO
27
One getting a bouquet? : WINETASTER
32
Makes fun of : JAPES
35
Profess : AVOW
36
It flows near the Piazzale Michelangelo : ARNO
37
Workplace where there are many openings : OPERATINGROOM
40
Sorento and Sedona : KIAS
41
"Our Gang" approval : OTAY
42
Plentiful : AMPLE
43
Song played at the school dance in "Back to the Future" : EARTHANGEL
46
Kind of year: Abbr. : FISC
47
Chinese for "black dragon" : OOLONG
50
Officially : FORTHERECORD
56
Schubert's "Eine kleine Trauermusik," e.g. : NONET
57
1996 Gwyneth Paltrow title role : EMMA
58
River in a 1957 hit film : KWAI
59
Warning to intruders : NOTRESPASSING
62
Young fish that has migrated from the Sargasso Sea : ELVER
63
Rubble maker, for short : TNT
64
Some Windows systems : NTS
Down
1
Rent-___ : ACOP
2
Synagogues : SHULS
3
Attacks : HASAT
4
Cholesterol medication : STATIN
5
Helper's offer : LETME
6
Sea menace : ORCA
7
Certain pie toppers : PECANS
8
Big bug : IMAGO
9
Fit : ABLE
10
Thomas Moore's "___ Ask the Hour" : NEER
11
Eye, to poets : ORB
13
Some passport applicants : RENEWERS
15
It's all the same : MONOTONY
24
Something that's stamped : VISA
26
Green : RAW
28
Town on Lake Geneva opposite Lausanne, Switzerland : EVIAN
29
Too: Fr. : TROP
30
Hydroxyl compound : ENOL
31
Setting for "Coriolanus" : ROME
32
One may be running over time : JOKE
33
Headquarters for Polynesian Airlines : APIA
34
Schnapps flavor : PEAR
35
Legal cases? : ATTACHES
36
Judo maneuvers : ARMLOCKS
39
Highlander : GAEL
41
Song words accompanying "Sherrie" and "Susanna" : OHS
44
Nervous laugh : TITTER
45
Enter an Ivy League school, maybe : GOEAST
46
Many a French business partner : FRERE
47
"The Suze ___ Show" : ORMAN
48
Kind of situation : NOWIN
49
Award : GRANT
50
Half-wit : FOOL
51
Airing : ONTV
53
Pre-___ (take the place of) : EMPT
55
Pad : DIGS
56
Ft. Myers-to-Orlando dir. : NNE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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