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New York Times, Friday, August 12, 2011

Author:
Julian Lim
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
40-Down : Softens in water, in a way
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Julian Lim

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 58, Blocks: 44 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Lim. Friday freshness: 100%
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© 2011, The New York Times8/12/11 ( No. 22,557 )
Across
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Officers : BRASS
6
Award show category : DRAMA
11
In haste : RUSHING
14
Derided : FLEERED
16
It might help you catch your breath : INHALER
17
Kind of pickup : LONGBED
18
"St. Martin and the Beggar" painter : ELGRECO
19
Tenth Commandment subject : AVARICE
20
"Just this time ..." : FORONCE
21
Upbraided : BERATED
22
Lascivious sorts : WANTONS
24
Beans and others : SIDES
25
Go on : YAK
26
Having more bites, say : ITCHIER
28
Word from a waiter : ENJOY
29
Language with no word for "hello" : KLINGON
32
Sloven : PIG
35
Enthusiast : FIEND
36
One wiping out : EFFACER
39
Pitt athlete : PANTHER
41
Mercurial : ERRATIC
43
Former : OLDTIME
44
Subject of the Fujita scale : TORNADO
45
British dish with an American version called a Hot Brown : RAREBIT
46
Polka relative : TWOSTEP
47
Fathers, of a sort : CLERICS
48
Lachrymose : INTEARS
49
Attacked : HADAT
50
What the cogent make : SENSE
Down
1
Summary : BRIEF
2
Need replenishing : RUNLOW
3
Silverish : ASHGRAY
4
"My" girl in a 1979 hit : SHARONA
5
Knee cap? : SILENTK
6
Coins for Cicero : DENARII
7
College student's request : REGRADE
8
Judge : ARBITER
9
Varmints, in a classic cartoon line : MEECES
10
Extra : ADDED
12
Big name in wafers : NECCO
13
Creator of "The Simpsons" : GROENING
14
Blubber : FLAB
15
Having a hard time connecting? : LOVESHY
23
Missouri metro : STJOE
27
It may come down after a win : CONFETTI
28
Native to a certain region : ENDEMIC
29
Like some spirits : KINDRED
30
It's typed with the left pinkie : LETTERA
31
Check : INHIBIT
32
Echoes : PARROTS
33
"That makes 50-Across" : ICANSEE
34
Lie in the sun : GETATAN
35
Start of a Christmas refrain : FALALA
37
:-( : FROWN
38
Equestrians : RIDERS
39
It may be screened : PORCH
40
Softens in water, in a way : RETS
42
Thicket of trees : COPSE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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