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New York Times, Friday, March 26, 2010

Author:
Henry Hook
Editor:
Will Shortz
36-Down : More frail
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Henry Hook

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 55 for Mr. Hook. Friday freshness: 92%
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© 2010, The New York Times3/26/10 ( No. 22,053 )
Across
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Nightclub in the Trump Taj : CASBAH
7
Like some party prizes : RAFFLED
14
Part of the iris bordering the pupil : AREOLA
15
Getting there : ENROUTE
16
Famous bodybuilder : SCHWARZENEGGER
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"On Golden Pond" wife : ETHEL
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"Closer Than Ever," e.g. : REVUE
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Fed. management org. : GSA
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Zoologist Fossey : DIAN
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Permanent solutions : CURES
23
Resort town on I-70 : VAIL
24
TV lawyer Stone : ELI
25
Splotchy apparel, familiarly : CAMOS
26
Often-used word in Matthew 1 : BEGAT
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Holds over? : RECLASPS
29
Apollonian : SERENE
30
In days of knights? : ARTHURIAN
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Factors in handwriting analysis : SLANTS
35
Oldest of a literary quartet : MEGMARCH
39
Unwieldy ships : HULKS
40
Song from Sondheim's "Into the Woods" : AGONY
41
___ Claire : EAU
42
11-time N.C.A.A. basketball champs : UCLA
43
Racehorse whose 1955 Kentucky Derby win kept Nashua from taking the Triple Crown : SWAPS
44
Hide : PELT
45
"Laus ___" (words atop the Washington Monument) : DEO
46
New York City's first Jewish mayor : BEAME
47
"In Search of Identity" autobiographer : SADAT
48
Famous body builder? : DRFRANKENSTEIN
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All at once : ENMASSE
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When data's been ___ ... : ERASED
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... you may have to ___ it : REENTER
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Lettuce : DINERO
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Vegetable-oil soap : CASTILE
2
Old : ARCHAIC
3
To look, in Leipzig : SEHEN
4
Cricketer's action : BOWL
5
Mobile home: Abbr. : ALA
6
Disapproving comment : HARRUMPH
7
"Speed" star : REEVES
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CD, e.g.? : ANNUS
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Priceless? : FREE
10
Bewilderment : FOG
11
Carousel riders? : LUGGAGE
12
Summer wind in the Mediterranean : ETESIAN
13
Nickname of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer : DERALTE
17
Balancing act? : ZEROSUMGAME
18
Broadway star Linda who won $100,000 on "Star Search" : EDER
22
Flings : CASTS
23
Actress Felton of 1950s TV's "December Bride" : VERNA
25
Barrows : CARTS
26
Radiant : BEAMY
28
See 50-Down : LANKA
29
Makes binding : SIGNS
31
Back in business : REOPENED
32
Some people do it to think : SHUDDER
33
Swiss canton or its capital : LUCERNE
34
1932 song or 1984 movie : ALLOFME
36
More frail : REEDIER
37
Gradually quieting, in music : CALANDO
38
Jabba the ___ of "Star Wars" : HUTT
40
Reveille, e.g. : AWAKER
43
Just know : SENSE
44
Michelangelo's country : PAESE
46
Cordage fiber : BAST
47
Coveleski of Cooperstown : STAN
49
Governed : RAN
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With 28-Down, its flag has a lion holding a sword : SRI

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

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