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New York Times, Monday, August 20, 2012

Author:
Robert Cirillo
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
30-Down : Christmas song
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Robert Cirillo

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJX} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Cirillo. Monday freshness: 87%
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© 2012, The New York Times8/20/12 ( No. 22,931 )
Across
1
City square : PLAZA
6
Thing on a cowboy's boot : SPUR
10
Arrow-shooting Greek god : EROS
14
Overhauled : REDID
15
Man, in Roma : UOMO
16
"See for yourself!" : LOOK
17
Almost round : OVATE
18
___ platter (order at a Polynesian restaurant) : PUPU
19
Word before Susan or Sunday : LAZY
20
Help for newbies : BEGINNERSGUIDE
23
Prior to, in verse : ERE
24
Swiss river to the Rhine : AAR
25
Med. care options : HMOS
26
There's no such thing as this, according to a saying : DUMBQUESTION
31
Evening event : SOIREE
34
Kiev's land: Abbr. : UKR
35
1964 Pontiac debut : GTO
36
___ tube : INNER
37
Sandra of "Gidget" : DEE
38
Craft with a paddle : CANOE
40
Columbo and others: Abbr. : LTS
41
"Ta-ta" : BYE
42
Graduation cap attachment : TASSEL
43
Really strong : TOUGHASNAILS
47
Sound heard before an MGM film : ROAR
48
Weekend NBC staple, for short : SNL
49
Be a thespian : ACT
52
First woman to sit in the British House of Commons : LADYNANCYASTOR
56
Six-sided solid : CUBE
57
Home of Lima and Toledo : OHIO
58
Not straight, as a street : CURVY
59
The Bruins of the N.C.A.A. : UCLA
60
The Who's "___ Get Fooled Again" : WONT
61
Parisian girlfriends : AMIES
62
Barely made, with "out" : EKED
63
Caustic alkalis : LYES
64
"I came, I saw, I conquered," e.g. : BOAST
Down
1
Government investigation : PROBE
2
Prying bar, e.g. : LEVER
3
"Honesty is the best policy," e.g. : ADAGE
4
Large-tubed pasta : ZITI
5
Former German chancellor Konrad : ADENAUER
6
A-one : SUPERB
7
Rain cats and dogs : POUR
8
Officials on a diamond : UMPS
9
Not as gentle : ROUGHER
10
Broadway's "Billy ___" : ELLIOT
11
Stop, Yield or No U Turn : ROADSIGNS
12
Move like molasses : OOZE
13
Wild blue yonder : SKY
21
Identify : NAME
22
Verbal hesitations : UMS
26
Rap's Dr. ___ : DRE
27
Elizabeth I or II : QUEEN
28
Hawaiian instrument, for short : UKE
29
Oklahoma tribe : OTOE
30
Christmas song : NOEL
31
River deposit : SILT
32
Latch ___ : ONTO
33
Like a car or home, to State Farm : INSURABLE
37
Prefix with functional : DYS
38
Arrange for transport to the airport, perhaps : CALLACAB
39
Donkey : ASS
41
Nocturnal rodent hunter on a farm : BARNOWL
42
Wee : TINY
44
Stop working, as a car battery : GODEAD
45
Farm bale : HAY
46
Broad ties : ASCOTS
49
Heart chambers : ATRIA
50
Quiet places along a shore : COVES
51
Meeting for Romeo and Juliet : TRYST
52
Word that can follow the starts of 20-, 26-, 43- and 52-Across : LUCK
53
Chips ___! : AHOY
54
Number of "lives" a cat has : NINE
55
Kind of wrestling : SUMO
56
Pool ball striker : CUE

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

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