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New York Times, Friday, February 15, 2013

Author:
Tom Heilman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
5-Down : Controversial school language subject
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Thomas Heilman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 62, Blocks: 30 Missing: {QVXZ} Average word length: 6.29 This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Heilman. Friday freshness: 96%
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© 2013, The New York Times2/15/13 ( No. 23,110 )
Across
1
Smelting ended it : STONEAGE
9
Latin pop Grammy winner Jon : SECADA
15
Intellectually stimulating : CEREBRAL
16
Drive : PROPEL
17
Traditional : OLDWORLD
18
Scam : RIPOFF
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Pringles Light ingredient : OLEAN
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Roster shortener : ETALII
21
Bach wrote three for violin : PARTITAS
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Impenetrable : ARCANE
26
Thornton Wilder, while earning his B.A. : ELI
27
Debt memo : CHIT
28
Mower handle? : DEERE
29
Close match point? : RINGSIDESEAT
32
Knuckles the Echidna's company : SEGA
33
Crayola color introduced in 1958 : SEPIA
34
Wishy-washy reply : IMAY
38
Variable pay schedule : SLIDINGSCALE
41
Put away one's own groceries? : ATEIN
43
Nagg's wife in Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" : NELL
44
Ziploc bag introducer : DOW
45
They have their own kingdom : PLANTS
46
Whisk clean : SWEEPOUT
48
Procured unlawfully, old-style : ILLGOT
49
What Montana was in the '80s : NINER
50
CW series based on a French film : NIKITA
51
"Piranha" director, 1978 : JOEDANTE
54
One of the Wayans brothers : KEENEN
55
Wicker seat place? : USSENATE
56
As far out as possible : ODDEST
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Blooms named for their scent : TEAROSES
Down
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Ice cream store employees : SCOOPERS
2
Invent something : TELLALIE
3
Activity for diners and list makers : ORDERING
4
Just starting to learn : NEWAT
5
Controversial school language subject : EBONICS
6
Weather might delay it: Abbr. : ARR
7
Square dance partner : GAL
8
Antiquity, in antiquity : ELD
9
Like a snow angel maker, at times : SPREADEAGLE
10
1890-1941 Italian colony : ERITREA
11
Ducky : COPACETIC
12
Like hydra neurons : APOLAR
13
Characterize : DEFINE
14
Caine character who's left wondering : ALFIE
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Served : AIDED
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Quaint undies : STEPINS
30
It works via a series of explosions : GASENGINE
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Resilient strength : SINEW
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Paintings often including an infant : MADONNAS
36
Kindergarten song : ALOUETTE
37
Some graveyard flora : YEWTREES
39
Figure of speech like "not unlike" : LITOTES
40
Not unlike a ballet dancer : SLENDER
41
Acting as one : ALLIED
42
Named names, say : TALKED
45
McCarthy-era epithet : PINKO
47
Source of grand sounds? : PIANO
51
Extrude : JUT
52
Relative of -ish : OSE
53
Spanish demonstrative : ESA

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

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