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New York Times, Friday, March 23, 2012

Author:
Steven Riley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
2-Down : Heads off
TotalDebutLatest
33/23/20126/19/2012
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Steven Riley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 27 Missing: {W} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Riley. Friday freshness: 95%
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© 2012, The New York Times3/23/12 ( No. 22,781 )
Across
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Aunties' sisters : MAMMAS
7
Gold medal : TOPPRIZE
15
Fly : AVIATE
16
Prepare to take off, perhaps : UNLOOSEN
17
Evers of civil rights : MEDGAR
18
Quick seasonal greeting? : XMASCARD
19
Ice cream gobbler's woe : BRAINFREEZE
21
A.L. East team, on scoreboards : BOS
22
Ear-relevant : OTIC
23
Old Norse work : EDDA
24
Orange exterior : PEEL
25
United entities before 1991: Abbr. : SSRS
26
"Get Smart" enemy agency : KAOS
27
2008 Israeli political biography : GOLDA
28
Beater of a full boat in poker : QUADS
30
Naturally bright : SUNLIT
31
Develops : MATURES
34
C6H6 : BENZENE
35
Stilted-sounding "Consider it done" : ISHALL
36
"The Godfather" enforcer who "sleeps with the fishes" : BRASI
37
"Cheers" alternative, in a letter : YOURS
38
Providers of inside looks? : MRIS
39
"Minnie the Moocher" feature : SCAT
43
Archer of film : ANNE
44
In a day, say : SOON
45
Solving aid : CLUE
46
End of a line in England : ZED
47
Hit MTV series starting in 2009 : JERSEYSHORE
50
Double grace period? : AMENAMEN
52
Start operating, datewise : OPENON
53
Vronsky's love : KARENINA
54
Stoolies, often : NAMERS
55
Like clams during winter : INSEASON
56
1993 rap hit in which Snoop Doggy Dogg popularized the term "bootylicious" : DREDAY
Down
1
Relatives of merengues : MAMBOS
2
Heads off : AVERTS
3
Where trapeze artists connect : MIDAIR
4
Ancient talisman with mathematical properties : MAGICSQUARE
5
___ advantage : ATAN
6
One bound to do work : SERF
7
Ball wear : TUXEDOS
8
Popping Prozacs, perhaps : ONMEDS
9
Common statue setting : PLAZA
10
Ask : POSE
11
Legendary raptor : ROC
12
Figure skater Brasseur : ISABELLE
13
Directed attention (on) : ZEROEDIN
14
Runs over : ENDSLATE
20
Goes over : READS
24
Source of false returns : PONZISCHEME
26
Film critic Pauline : KAEL
27
Magazine articles : GUNS
29
E-tailing specifications : URLS
30
They can get choppy : SEAS
31
"Ponyo" writer/director Hayao ___ : MIYAZAKI
32
In unison : ASONEMAN
33
Booms : THUNDERS
34
Pickle : BRINE
36
Pierce with lines : BROSNAN
38
"West Side Story" Oscar winner : MORENO
40
Like the I.B.M. PC, often : CLONED
41
Light show? : AURORA
42
Minute : TEENSY
44
Four enter them, but only two survive : SEMIS
47
Tennis star Novotna : JANA
48
Over there, to bards : YOND
49
Practice with gloves on : SPAR
51
Once known as : NEE

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