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New York Times, Saturday, September 6, 2008

Author:
Barry C. Silk
Editor:
Will Shortz
24-Down : Checkers' place
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Barry C. Silk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 27 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Scrabble average: 1.93 This is puzzle # 29 for Mr. Silk. Saturday freshness: 88%
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© 2008, The New York Times9/6/8 ( No. 21,487 )
Across
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Westinghouse/Intel award winner, e.g. : WHIZKID
8
Stateliness : MAJESTY
15
Place for a skating edge : HOMEICE
16
Fox's cousin : ARAPAHO
17
Librarian, at times : INDEXER
18
They come out in the spring : GEMINIS
19
"Notorious" company : RKO
20
Where inside info is revealed? : XRAYLAB
22
Where Japanese trade shares: Abbr. : TSE
23
"The King and I" film director : LANG
25
Sluggard : SNAIL
26
One of the Coreys on "The Two Coreys" : HAIM
27
Far from soft : STERN
29
Princeton Review subj. : GRE
30
Seeming : QUASI
31
Marveled aloud : OOHED
33
"Phooey!" : DARNIT
34
Sounded like a bufflehead : QUACKED
37
Discounted : CUTRATE
38
Show to the public : UNVEIL
39
Name in cosmetics since 1931 : ALMAY
40
Luxury Hyundai sedan : AZERA
41
Egg head? : OVI
42
Plays a trump card : RUFFS
46
Insubstantial : AIRY
47
Their feet don't walk : POEMS
49
It turns up in a field : PLOW
50
Records that may be broken : LPS
51
Improvisatory composition : TOCCATA
53
Suffix in linguistics : EME
54
Seeing the sun rise, say : UPEARLY
56
Ran off, in a way : XEROXED
58
Home to Hitsville U.S.A. : DETROIT
59
Satan, with "the" : EVILONE
60
Ancient Negev dweller : EDOMITE
61
Comeuppance : DESERTS
Down
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Reels : WHIRLS
2
Alert while driving : HONKAT
3
"No more for me" : IMDONE
4
One of a jazz duo? : ZEE
5
Aptly named Philadelphia indoor soccer team : KIXX
6
Some players in penalty boxes : ICERS
7
Sick : DERANGED
8
Losing pitcher in the 1956 World Series perfect game : MAGLIE
9
"___ Nice Clambake" ("Carousel" tune) : AREAL
10
Threshold adjoiner : JAMB
11
Prefix with cycle : EPI
12
Orange County seat : SANTAANA
13
"Here we go!" : THISISIT
14
Half Dome's home : YOSEMITE
21
Prison part : YARD
24
Checkers' place : GROCERY
26
Shout to a 25-Across : HURRYUP
28
Cell choice : NOKIA
30
Land on a peninsula : QATAR
32
Daughter of Loki : HEL
33
"___ spiro, spero" (motto of South Carolina) : DUM
34
It's a downer : QUAALUDE
35
Open, as a jacket : UNZIPPED
36
Not at all excited by : AVERSETO
37
Reached the peak : CLIMAXED
39
___ raison (sensible: Fr.) : AVEC
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An egg develops from it : OOCYTE
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Biceps, e.g. : FLEXOR
44
Stir up : FOMENT
45
Dwellers on Lake Vänern : SWEDES
47
Like many parties: Abbr. : POLIT
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Jobs in technology? : STEVE
51
Counselor on "Star Trek: T.N.G." : TROI
52
Onassis and others : ARIS
55
Trunk attachment : ARM
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Root word? : OLE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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