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New York Times, Thursday, February 18, 2010

Author:
Caleb Madison
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
39-Down : Steve Martin comedy, with "The"
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Caleb Madison

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QVX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Madison. Thursday freshness: 28%
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© 2010, The New York Times2/18/10 ( No. 22,017 )
Across
1
Start in literature : ACTI
5
Alpine feature : ARETE
10
Stretch : SPAN
14
Go into a new mode : SHIFTGEARS
16
Leer at : OGLE
17
Almost-grad's "disease" : SENIORITIS
18
Have ___ : ATIT
19
"Table for ___?" : TWO
20
Bunny photo : PINUP
21
Who wrote "Hell is full of musical amateurs" : SHAW
22
One in chains, maybe : ESCAPEARTIST
25
Like some promises : EMPTY
28
Cornwall feature : MOOR
29
Bushed : BEAT
30
Unconcerned with scruples : AMORAL
34
Title twin brother of 15-Down : TIM
37
1983's highest-grossing film : RETURNOFTHEJEDI
40
Alternative to a day at the races?: Abbr. : OTB
41
Northeastern toll road convenience : EZPASS
42
Poetic times : EENS
43
Morales in Hollywood : ESAI
45
Second-guessers' words : ORNOT
46
Bossy sort : CONTROLFREAK
52
What Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 is written in: Abbr. : EMAJ
53
Execute, archaically : DOEST
54
Swell : AOK
57
Intl. group whose initials in English and French are reversed : NATO
58
"Shh! I know this" : DONTTELLME
60
Onetime Asian autocrat : SHAH
61
Gridiron ploy : OPTIONPLAY
62
Net : EARN
63
Social worker's workload : CASES
64
Formal letter opening : SIRS
Down
1
___ prof. : ASST
2
Consider, with "on" : CHEW
3
Ex-Yankee Martinez : TINO
4
Elvis Presley's "___ Can Dream" : IFI
5
U.S.D.A. part: Abbr. : AGRIC
6
Isabel, por ejemplo : REINA
7
Avidly accept : EATUP
8
Rubbish : TRIPE
9
Quaint occupational suffix : ESS
10
Such that one might : SOASTO
11
Like the movies "10,000 B.C." and "2012" : PGTHIRTEEN
12
Handle : ALIAS
13
Food box abbr. : NETWT
15
Title twin sister in a series of children's books by Jean and Gareth Adamson : TOPSY
22
Words from the betrayed : ETTU
23
Asian nannies : AMAHS
24
King Henry V, e.g. : ROLE
25
River through Logroño and Aragon : EBRO
26
Have an engagement (with) : MEET
27
Singer with the second video ever played on MTV : PATBENATAR
30
W.W. II battleground : ANZIO
31
Challenge for a hairstylist : MOP
32
U.S. ___ : OFA
33
Some linemen: Abbr. : RTS
35
"___ idea!" : IDNO
36
Spray setting : MIST
38
Full moon view? : REAR
39
Steve Martin comedy, with "The" : JERK
44
Bond girl Jill : STJOHN
45
Like some straw : OATEN
46
Perfume : CENSE
47
Nebraska tribe : OMAHA
48
Treatment for Parkinson's : LDOPA
49
Times and others : FONTS
50
Fix, as a knot : RETIE
51
These, to Julio : ESTOS
54
"___ Have" (#1 Jennifer Lopez hit) : ALLI
55
___ Little, "The Wire" antihero : OMAR
56
PC things, which can be found at the starts of 14-, 22-, 37-, 46- and 61-Across : KEYS
58
"Recipient" of a Bugs Bunny question : DOC
59
Wax things, for short : LPS

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

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