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New York Times, Saturday, December 11, 2010

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
52-Down : Playmate for Spot
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431.58161%
Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {QVW} This is puzzle # 65 for Ms. Gamache. Saturday freshness: 78%
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C
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T
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X
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J
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© 2010, The New York Times12/11/10 ( No. 22,313 )
Across
1
Abbr. for change : CTS
4
One who's just arrived in Mexico? : BEBE
8
"I got ___" : NOTHIN
14
Possible result of high temperature : DELIRIUM
16
Setting of muchas islas : OCEANO
17
What Tito shows, in opera : CLEMENZA
18
Recipient's reply : THANKS
19
Daughter of Alexander VI : LUCREZIABORGIA
21
These, on Ibiza : ESTOS
22
What an aspiring model may read : ELLE
23
One with star power?: Abbr. : GENL
24
Comic with the 1955 album "At Sunset" : SAHL
25
Open : FREE
26
___-robe (Calais closet) : GARDE
27
Didn't just ask : PLED
28
Ancient amulet inscription : ABRAXAS
30
19th-century, say : OLD
31
Doctored account : LIE
32
Bread source : JOB
33
Nigerian language : IBO
36
"Emma" studio : MIRAMAX
38
Kodak film used in surveillance : TMAX
39
Under control : TAMED
42
Quinceañera treat : TACO
43
"___ goes!" : HERE
44
Country whose name is occasionally used as an exclamation? : OMAN
45
Time, to Freud : ZEIT
46
Eddy site : DRAIN
47
What a Yankee is unlikely to have : SOUTHERNACCENT
50
Bit of beachwear : SUNHAT
51
Projection creator : MERCATOR
53
Sitcom witch : ENDORA
54
Element between polonium and radon on the periodic table : ASTATINE
55
They go in and out : STYLES
56
Wreck-checking org. : NTSB
57
Matt Dillon title role of 1982 : TEX
Down
1
Flu-fighting org. : CDC
2
Blabs, blabs, blabs : TELLSALL
3
Did some digging around : SLEUTHED
4
Backwoods sibs : BRERS
5
Stern article : EINE
6
Thrilling hoops shot : BUZZERBEATER
7
One may attach something : EMAILER
8
"This should ___!" : NOTBE
9
A third of veinticuatro : OCHO
10
Riot control agent : TEARGAS
11
One in the closet : HANGER
12
One way to respond : INKIND
13
Register message : NOSALE
15
[Brrr!] : IMCOLD
20
"The die is cast," to Caesar : ALEAJACTAEST
21
Boston Garden nickname : ESPO
25
Midway point? : FAIR
26
Tittle-tattle : GAB
29
Love letters? : XOXO
31
Hamper part : LID
33
Affirmation of seriousness : IMEANTIT
34
Military band piece : BARITONE
35
Draft team : OXEN
36
Tiger Balm ingredient : MENTHOL
37
Best bud : MAINMAN
38
Security problem : THREAT
39
Scraps : TOSSES
40
Aggregate : AMOUNT
41
Foot-washing ceremony : MAUNDY
45
Some Greek sisters : ZETAS
46
1983 Joel Schumacher film : DCCAB
48
Storied slacker : HARE
49
Analog oscilloscope parts: Abbr. : CRTS
52
Playmate for Spot : REX

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

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