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New York Times, Friday, October 21, 2011

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
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Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 42 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 3 There are unchecked squares This is puzzle # 152 for Mr. Berry. Grid flow: 17.0 Friday freshness: 10%
Notepad: "CROSS" WORD CONTEST — All the puzzles this week, from Monday to Saturday, have been created by one person, Patrick Berry. Have your solutions handy, because the Saturday puzzle conceals a meta-challenge involving the solution grids of all six. When you have the answer to the meta-challenge, mail it to: crossword@nytimes.com. Twenty-five correct solvers, chosen at random, whose entries are received by 6:00 p.m. E.T. Sunday, Oct. 23, will receive copies of "Will Shortz Picks His Favorite Puzzles: 101 of the Top Crosswords From The New York Times" (puzzle list.) Only one entry per person, please. The answer and winners' names will appear on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, at Wordplay.
Jim Horne notes:

Today's puzzle is available from The NYT only as a PDF but you can try this electronic version here. Several answers "cross over", wrapping around from right to left, or bottom to top.

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© 2011, The New York Times10/21/11 ( No. 22,627 )
Across
2
Bring joy to : ELATE
5
Like some store-bought nuts : SHELLED
6
Country singer Gibbs glided a short distance? : TERRIFLEWINCHES
9
Old West gun, crossing over? : WINCHESTERRIFLE
11
Doing time : INSIDE
12
Nautical leader? : ASTRO
13
Illegal copying : PIRACY
16
Corporate treadmill : RATRACE
19
Org. with a draft : NBA
20
Where somebody might be spotted : GYM
21
Nitwit : ASS
22
Lady's attendant : MAID
26
Radio switch : AMFM
28
Trip director, for short : GPS
31
Chemist's container : BEAKER
34
What Newton's first law of motion concerns : INERTIA
35
Cowboy Rogers as part of a posse after some younger namesakes joined up? : ELDESTROYINGANG
36
Poisonous gilled mushrooms, crossing over? : DESTROYINGANGEL
39
Like a roast : EMCEED
40
Presenters' bits : LEADINS
41
Offense : SIN
43
Every mirror image has one : AXIS
45
Prelapsarian home : EDEN
46
L.A. winter hrs. : PST
48
Common female middle name : ANN
50
Source of much plywood : FIR
52
Like a crown's gems, maybe : INLAID
55
Resolve : CLEARUP
56
Stressful tests : ORALS
58
Matter barely worth mentioning : TRIFLE
60
Leasable tropical locales aren't truthful? : CHARTERISLESLIE
64
Simon Templar's creator, crossing over? : LESLIECHARTERIS
65
Slip around : EVADE
66
Reach the top : SUCCEED
Down
1
Sleep-preventing sound, perhaps : DRIP
3
Poetic contraction : TIS
4
Bookkeeping notation : ENTRY
7
First name in despotism : IDI
8
Plant with fiddleheads : FERN
10
Learn the hard way? : CRAM
14
"The ___ Daba Honeymoon" (1914 #1 song) : ABA
15
Language in which "yes" and "no" are "baat" and "te," respectively : CAMBODIAN
17
Knock : RAP
18
Give out : ASSIGN
20
Free Web-based correspondence service : GMAIL
22
"This Week in Baseball" host Allen : MEL
23
"As You Like It" setting : ARDEN
24
Particular : ITEM
25
Piece in the game Othello : DISC
27
Whimsically odd : FEY
28
Letter from school? : GRADE
29
What the "Surgeon's Photo" supposedly depicts : NESSIE
30
Distressed : ATEAT
32
Impact point for a spoons player : KNEE
33
"Dear me!" : EGAD
37
1976 Broadway musical based on Henry VIII's life : REX
38
"Henry & June" author : NIN
42
Banker's recommendation, for short : IRA
44
TV show with the most Emmy nominations, informally : SNL
46
Pet sound : PURR
47
Torrent : SPATE
49
Part of NBC: Abbr. : NATL
50
Takes to the cleaners : FLEECES
51
Off-___ (sturdy bikes) : ROADERS
52
Natalie Portman's birthplace : ISRAEL
53
Heat generator? : IRE
54
Grad sch. composition : DISS
55
Overused plot device : CLICHE
57
Chaim Potok's "My Name Is Asher ___" : LEV
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Winter protection? : FLUSHOT
60
TD Garden team : CELTICS
61
Curtis of hair care : HELENE
62
Chilling, say : IDLE
63
Set of channels? : SEAWAY

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

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