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New York Times, Friday, December 30, 2011

Author:
Mike Nothnagel
Editor:
Will Shortz
29-Down : Nowhere close
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Mike Nothnagel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 51 for Mr. Nothnagel. Friday freshness: 67%
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© 2011, The New York Times12/30/11 ( No. 22,697 )
Across
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Forcefulness : PUNCH
6
Is a true believer in : SWEARSBY
14
Moss source : SPORE
15
Deposit remover? : COALMINER
16
Holder of legends : ATLAS
17
What you might reach for after hearing "Don't go anywhere!" : RADIODIAL
18
Drug distributors? : SHOTS
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Entertainment at a luau : UKES
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Look too closely : PRY
21
Preparatory time : EVE
22
Titled lady : PEERESS
25
By area, the third-largest country in the E.U. : SWED
26
Some attorneys' degs. : LLDS
27
Money in Manila : PESOS
31
Someone to hang with : PAL
32
Primitive coat : PELT
33
Show for which Jim Dale won the 1980 Tony for Best Actor in a Musical : BARNUM
34
Kind of compound in chemistry : AZO
35
Time in an airport : LAYOVER
37
Hearing opening? : OTO
38
Landscaping plants : HOSTAS
40
Big to-do? : TASK
41
Shout with cupped hands, maybe : BOO
42
Untagged : NOTIT
43
"That's so sad!" : OHNO
44
Foil part : HAFT
45
Most chic : TONIEST
47
Auto loan fig. : APR
48
Drug sold under the brand name Retrovir : AZT
51
Site of an 1815 escape : ELBA
52
Almost catch : NIPAT
54
Shoots at : FIRESUPON
57
Coeur d'___, Idaho : ALENE
58
Going around in circles? : ITINERANT
59
Restricted parties : STAGS
60
Alaska or Hawaii : TIMEZONE
61
Problems with an argument : HOLES
Down
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Some health warnings: Abbr. : PSAS
2
Plentifully, in slang : UPTHEWAZOO
3
Enmity : NOLOVELOST
4
In a box : CRATED
5
Russian chemist with a law of thermodynamics named after him : HESS
6
Saturated : SOAKEDTOTHEBONE
7
High boots for fishermen : WADERS
8
One of Beethoven's bagatelles is dedicated to her : ELISE
9
Latin 101 word : AMO
10
___-X (septic treatment brand) : RID
11
Impertinent one : SNIP
12
Arduous challenge : BEAR
13
Annual: Abbr. : YRLY
15
How Simon Cowell often critiques : CRUELLY
22
Hearing responses : PLEAS
23
Little starter : SPARK
24
Spanish 101 verb : SER
25
1957 Cy Young Award winner : SPAHN
28
What luxury goods have : SNOBAPPEAL
29
Nowhere close : OUTOFRANGE
30
___-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 : SMOOT
32
Academy head : PLATO
33
Cloud the judgment of with alcohol : BESOT
36
"Good Will Hunting" director, 1997 : VANSANT
39
Small bird : TIT
43
Bottom of a crankcase : OILPAN
44
Start of a presidential march : HAILTO
46
Prefix with chemical : NEURO
48
Throw ___ : AFIT
49
Tubular pasta : ZITI
50
Edging : TRIM
52
Humorist who wrote "Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long" : NASH
53
One of the Durbeyfields : TESS
55
Memphis-to-Nashville dir. : ENE
56
Expresses, informally : SEZ

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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