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New York Times, Saturday, June 9, 2007

Author:
Karen M. Tracey
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Down : German astronomer who was the first to measure the distance to a star
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Karen M. Tracey

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 25 Missing: {QY} This is puzzle # 12 for Ms. Tracey. Saturday freshness: 87%
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G
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© 2007, The New York Times6/9/7 ( No. 21,032 )
Across
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Extracurricular activity traditionally for men : GLEECLUB
9
Measure of reflected light : ALBEDO
15
Digitalis source : FOXGLOVE
16
Manage adversity : BEARUP
17
Fresh : ORIGINAL
18
Kind of case : DATIVE
19
Fix at a farrier's : RESHOE
20
Confident affirmation : ISURECAN
22
"Princess Caraboo" star, 1994 : CATES
23
Set : JELL
24
Is peaked : AILS
25
Opera heroine with the aria "Einsam in trüben Tagen" : ELSA
26
Singer Stubbs of the Four Tops : LEVI
27
Murphy of "To Hell and Back" : AUDIE
28
Valium, generically : DIAZEPAM
31
Place for buttercups : LEA
32
Overdo it at the gym : GETSORE
35
Withstands : SUFFERS
37
Tognazzi of "La Cage aux Folles" : UGO
38
Opera that opens on Christmas Eve : LABOHEME
40
Best Actor nominee for "Affliction," 1998 : NOLTE
42
Life sci. : ECOL
43
Captain of Stubb and Flask : AHAB
47
Old World duck : SMEW
48
Split : FLED
49
Ready : PRIME
50
County holding part of Yosemite National Park : MARIPOSA
52
Old-fashioned letter opener: Abbr. : MESSRS
53
Less likely to fly? : INANER
54
Complex component : NEUROSIS
56
Having a hint : TINGED
57
Paramount : ULTIMATE
58
Bigots : HATERS
59
Not fleshed out : SKELETAL
Down
1
Jet pilot's concern : GFORCE
2
Owner of Maybelline : LOREAL
3
Has substance : EXISTS
4
Einsteins : EGGHEADS
5
Awards for some campaigns : CLIOS
6
Set apart : LONE
7
A.C.C. member : UVA
8
Hold : BELIEVE
9
Arabic name that means "servant of God" : ABDUL
10
He wrote "There was an old man of Thermopylae / Who never did anything properly ..." : LEAR
11
River craft : BATEAU
12
Author of "The Greedy Bastard Diary: A Comic Tour of America" : ERICIDLE
13
President who claimed to be a voodoo priest : DUVALIER
14
Pirates' domain : OPENSEAS
21
Loose : SLIPSHOD
23
Shameless hussies : JEZEBELS
26
Newswoman Logan : LARA
27
Band switch : AMFM
29
Princess loved by Heracles : IOLE
30
"Earth's Children" series author Jean : AUEL
32
Colt handler : GUNSMITH
33
Extreme bovarism : EGOMANIA
34
Accepting : TOLERANT
36
Ogrelike : FEARSOME
39
Brother and husband of Tethys : OCEANUS
41
Qualm : TWINGE
44
Greet cattily : HISSAT
45
Hindu drink of immortality : AMRITA
46
German astronomer who was the first to measure the distance to a star : BESSEL
48
Wades through : FORDS
49
Precipice, say : PERIL
51
___ review : PEER
52
Remote option : MUTE
55
Puma prey : ELK

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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