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New York Times, Saturday, September 3, 2011

Author:
Peter Wentz
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
28-Down : Ninth successor of St. Peter
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Peter Wentz

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {QX} Scrabble average: 2.02 This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Wentz. Saturday freshness: 93%
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J
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A
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B
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B
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A
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K
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K
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R
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C
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C
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D
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V
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T
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P
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G
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R
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K
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© 2011, The New York Times9/3/11 ( No. 22,579 )
Across
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"Star Wars" villain : JABBA
6
Broken thing in "Gimme a break" : KITKATBAR
15
Perform "All of Me," say : CROON
16
Performing perfectly : INAGROOVE
17
Chili container : CROCK
18
Pirate's implement : DVDBURNER
19
Sapporo's home : HOKKAIDO
21
Nobel-winning economist James : MEADE
22
"Would you look at that!" : AWW
23
Inventor of the battery in 1800 : VOLTA
26
Extinct wingless bird : MOA
27
Birth city of Mother Teresa : SKOPJE
30
It's acquired in the sun : VITAMIND
33
A little too quiet, perhaps : EERIE
34
Gruff rejoinder : SEZWHO
35
Brewmaster's science : ZYMURGY
37
Term for some morning deejays : ZOOCREW
41
Having been tainted, as a drink : SKUNKY
43
United hub : OHARE
44
Noted role for 46-Down : MRMIYAGI
47
Many domes : STADIA
48
Great Society inits. : OEO
49
___ Park : MENLO
51
"That's awful!" : ICK
52
"David ___," Edward Noyes Westcott novel : HARUM
55
Ninnies : FATHEADS
58
It stirs things up : AGITATION
61
About to happen : ONTAP
62
Gathering place for animals : WATERHOLE
63
Glandular opening? : ADENO
64
They're thrown over the shoulder : KNAPSACKS
65
Ready for another play : RESET
Down
1
Former 'N Sync vocalist and judge on "America's Best Dance Crew" : JCCHASEZ
2
Pointer for a computer user : ARROWKEY
3
Bibliolater : BOOKWORM
4
Dark quaff : BOCK
5
"Tonight My Love, Tonight" singer : ANKA
6
Little fella : KIDDO
7
Absorb : INVOLVE
8
Sliver : TAD
9
Former org. for Azerbaijani president Heydar Aliyev : KGB
10
Poisonous lily : ARUM
11
Moved with force : TORE
12
Cleanser with the logo of a chick emerging from an egg : BONAMI
13
Photographer who once collaborated with Capote : AVEDON
14
Brushed up on : REREAD
20
"___ changed" : IVE
24
Excited state : TIZZY
25
U.K. highway connecting London and Dover : ATWO
28
Ninth successor of St. Peter : PIUSI
29
Beef product : JERKY
31
Screamingly funny : AHOOT
32
Part of a mudslide, maybe : MOCHA
34
"The Tinker's Wedding" playwright : SYNGE
36
Japanese capture after Pearl Harbor : GUAM
38
Projects, in a good way : RADIATES
39
"Grey's Anatomy" actor : ERICDANE
40
Chink in the armor : WEAKSPOT
42
Relatives : KINFOLK
44
Fashion strip? : MOHAWK
45
"The ___ Diaries" (2007 best seller) : REAGAN
46
Actor Pat : MORITA
47
Sponge : SOT
50
They're added in some infrastructure upgrades : LANES
53
Conference USA sch. : UTEP
54
"The Sands of ___" (Arthur C. Clarke's first science fiction novel) : MARS
56
Window coating? : HOAR
57
German fantasy writer Michael : ENDE
59
Article in hip-hop : THA
60
Org. against doping : IOC

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

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