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New York Times, Saturday, August 6, 2005

Author:
Frank Longo
Editor:
Will Shortz
24-Down : "Batman" theme composer Hefti
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Frank Longo

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 26 Missing: {QW} Spans: 1 Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. This is puzzle # 85 for Mr. Longo. Saturday freshness: 90%
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© 2005, The New York Times8/6/5 ( No. 20,360 )
Across
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Dentist's concern : ORALHEALTH
11
They're not advanced studies : ABCS
15
Old soap, perhaps : RADIODRAMA
16
Bar preference : NEAT
17
You may slow down when it goes off : FUZZBUSTER
18
Tiber tributary whose name means "black" : NERA
19
Host seeker : FLEA
20
"... on the head of ___" : APIN
21
Bloated : PUFFY
22
High-tech suffix : TRON
23
Large weight lifters : CRANES
24
Kind of contract clause : NOTRADE
28
One with a fitting job : TAILOR
29
Overthrow, say : ERROR
30
Commute : TRANSFORM
33
Where shorts may be manufactured : ANIMATIONSTUDIO
35
Volcanic spew : LAVAROCKS
36
Small arm : INLET
37
Secretary in both Clinton's and George W. Bush's cabinet : MINETA
38
Least cold : KINDEST
40
Title girl in a 1977 Shaun Cassidy hit : DEANIE
41
Languish : PINE
42
How many people trust : INGOD
43
Ding : DENT
44
"Nothin'" : NADA
48
Passengers' concerns, briefly : ETAS
49
Subject of Ruth Montgomery's biography "A Gift of Prophecy" : JEANEDIXON
51
Proceeded : CAME
52
Means of recapturing one's youth? : AMBERALERT
53
Components of un archipel : ILES
54
"Heavens!" : GOODNESSME
Down
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"Catulli Carmina" composer : ORFF
2
1980's Argentine president ___ Alfonsín : RAUL
3
Wood dresser : ADZE
4
"Cabaret" name : LIZA
5
Rounded quoits peg : HOB
6
Stephen King's Delacroix : EDUARD
7
Classical treatise on verse : ARSPOETICA
8
7-Down is in it : LATIN
9
Some special agts. : TMEN
10
Pirate's exclamation : HAR
11
Pledge recipient : ANNUALFUND
12
Kind of soup : BEEFNOODLE
13
Service providers to Martha's Vineyard, e.g. : CARFERRIES
14
Doesn't dash off : STAYS
21
Untouched : PRISTINE
22
"American Pie" actress : TARAREID
23
Keisters : CANS
24
"Batman" theme composer Hefti : NEAL
25
Like some shrubs : ORNAMENTAL
26
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," e.g. : TRIVIAGAME
27
High bridge sites : ROMANNOSES
28
Copper : TANSKINNED
31
"M*A*S*H" extra : ROK
32
Pioneering women's rights advocate : MOTT
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Popular pledge drive gift : TOTE
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Make a prisoner of war : INTERN
40
Cinque doubled : DIECI
41
R & B singer Bryson : PEABO
43
Expo presentation : DEMO
44
___ Asther, suave, Swedish-born actor in old films : NILS
45
Turning points : AXES
46
Home away from home : DORM
47
Show that one's in? : ANTE
49
Bender : JAG
50
Former South Korean president Kim ___ Jung : DAE

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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