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New York Times, Saturday, May 16, 2009

Author:
Tyler Hinman and Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
9-Down : Closer to 10?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
227/4/20003/31/20115
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2163334
CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.6013148%
Tyler Hinman
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10811/23/20014/6/202415
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1412393697
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
321.591,28194%
Byron Walden

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 25 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Hinman. This is puzzle # 57 for Mr. Walden. Saturday freshness: 79%
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© 2009, The New York Times5/16/9 ( No. 21,739 )
Across
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Exuberant gesture with splayed fingers : JAZZHANDS
10
Snake in the grass : PERIL
15
Captain's command : ASYOUWERE
16
Coat cut : ALINE
17
Safe : STRONGBOX
18
Something gays and straights have in common? : LONGA
19
Phrase : PUT
20
Sideshow Bob's last name on "The Simpsons" : TERWILLIGER
22
"Vous ___ ici" (French map indication) : ETES
24
Studio props : EASELS
25
Onetime Nascar outlet : TNN
26
Like some gems and old movies : RECUT
28
Corriere della ___, Italy's top-selling newspaper : SERA
29
Vexed look : MOUE
30
Registers, with "in" : SOAKS
32
Longfellow or Millay, by birth : MAINER
34
Tree with heart-shaped leaves : CATALPA
37
Tack item : HARNESS
38
Mrs. Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie" : AMANDA
39
Maker of the first electric compact calculator : CASIO
40
Rtes. with plazas : TPKS
41
More than brown : CHAR
43
In accordance with : ASPER
47
One going steady? : SHE
48
They may be fingered : CHORDS
50
___-tyme : OLDE
51
Work stoppage? : COFFEEBREAK
54
Island in the Thames : AIT
55
Red-haired Disney princess : ARIEL
56
"Deliverance" actor : NEDBEATTY
58
Central point : NAVEL
59
Something pulled out in church : ORGANSTOP
60
Handle : SEETO
61
"I sympathize" : BEENTHERE
Down
1
Traditional March birthstone : JASPER
2
Sharp : ASTUTE
3
Antiallergy brand : ZYRTEC
4
Common field trip destination : ZOO
5
Kind of club : HUNT
6
"You shouldn't have" : AWGEE
7
Location of the 44-Down : NEBRASKA
8
Suffers through a boring meeting, maybe : DROWSES
9
Closer to 10? : SEXIER
10
Shrouds : PALLS
11
"My God," in Aramaic : ELOI
12
Bars for a cell? : RINGTONE
13
Wide-eyed ones : INGENUES
14
Picker-uppers? : LEARNERS
21
Foals : horses :: crias : ___ : LLAMAS
23
Preakness flowers, familiarly : SUSANS
27
All ___ : TOLD
29
Baseball player known as Mr. White Sox : MINOSO
31
Extra in "Broken Arrow," 1950 : APACHE
33
"Votre toast," for one : ARIA
34
Radiodensity indicators : CATSCANS
35
Early containers : AMPHORAE
36
Rest : TAKEFIVE
37
Like a style of painting with sharply delineated forms : HARDEDGE
39
"Wayne's World" actress : CARRERE
42
Chat : HOBNOB
44
River facetiously described as "a mile wide at the mouth, but only six inches deep" : PLATTE
45
White, in fiction, or Brown, in real life : EDITOR
46
Enter again : RETYPE
48
Item with a pegbox : CELLO
49
Nick of college football who was twice A.P. Coach of the Year : SABAN
52
"Dogs" : FEET
53
Frequent phone booth user : KENT
57
Powdery evidence : ASH

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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