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New York Times, Saturday, September 30, 2006

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
29-Down : Starting to mature
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Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 26 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 90 for Mr. Berry. Saturday freshness: 62%
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H
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W
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D
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© 2006, The New York Times9/30/6 ( No. 20,780 )
Across
1
Politically unstable area : HOTSPOT
8
2005's "Walk the Line" and others : BIOPICS
15
Derived by logic : APRIORI
16
Fit for the stage : ACTABLE
17
Goes home for the night, say : HEADSIN
18
"Dig in, everyone!" : LETSEAT
19
Actress with the memoir "Call Me Crazy" : ANNEHECHE
21
Producer of the megaflop "E.T." : ATARI
22
Film about a blind man for which the lead won Best Actor : SCENTOFAWOMAN
24
After much delay : ATLAST
26
Like some calendars : LUNAR
27
Navigational aid : CHART
28
Repairs a leak, possibly : WELDS
29
Snap ___ : PEA
32
Classic pencil-and-paper game : DOTS
33
Kiosk item : DAILY
34
Mouthful : GULP
35
Signal : CUE
36
Lacking in resonance : TINNY
37
Coin with a two-headed eagle on the reverse : RUBLE
38
Savvy film/TV character whose name, paradoxically, is Spanish for "idiot" : TONTO
39
Bygone weapon : POLEAX
40
Some brass : MAJORGENERALS
44
Lose one's cool : ERUPT
45
Fiendish : DEMONICAL
48
Big farewell : SENDOFF
50
1983 song that begins "Hate New York City" : ILOVELA
51
Violinmaker Stradivari : ANTONIO
52
Compared : LIKENED
53
Less natural : STAGIER
54
Brought to bear : EXERTED
Down
1
"Funny ___" : HAHA
2
As yet undecided : OPEN
3
Exchange words? : TRANSLATE
4
Brandy cocktails : SIDECARS
5
Like a presidential suite, presumably : POSHEST
6
Help get settled : ORIENT
7
Color : TINCT
8
With undisguised menace : BALEFULLY
9
Party supply : ICE
10
Council of Three Fires members : OTTAWAS
11
Flock's overseer : PASTOR
12
Rolled steel joist : IBEAM
13
Santa ___, Calif. : CLARA
14
Arrive, as darkness : SETIN
20
Exciting drive? : HOLEINONE
23
Auto racer Granatelli : ANDY
24
Kind of adapter : ACDC
25
Second person appearing in the Bible : THOU
28
Phrase in a police bulletin : WANTEDFOR
29
Starting to mature : PUBESCENT
30
2004 title role for Anne Hathaway : ELLA
31
Mountaineering goal : APEX
33
Car owner's annoyance : DING
34
Swift traveler : GULLIVER
36
Dessert topped with crumbled macaroons : TORTONI
37
___ Colony (first English settlement in the New World) : ROANOKE
38
Boss : TOPDOG
39
Wordy : PROLIX
40
They're capped with caprock : MESAS
41
"Aunts ___ Gentlemen" (P. G. Wodehouse's last complete novel) : ARENT
42
Unelected officials : JUNTA
43
Lebanese president Lahoud : EMILE
46
"Hard ___" (ship command) : ALEE
47
"The Blue Dahlia" star : LADD
49
Cry of disgust : FIE

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

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