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New York Times, Friday, April 5, 2013

Author:
Peter Wentz
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Across : Ball-bearing piece
TotalDebutLatest
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Peter Wentz

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Wentz. Friday freshness: 84%
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© 2013, The New York Times4/5/13 ( No. 23,159 )
Across
1
Begins : KICKSOFF
9
Common sights in the Rockies : ASPENS
15
Expiate : ATONEFOR
16
Meaty Applebee's morsel : RIBLET
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Half of an old comic film duo : PAKETTLE
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It includes picking the place : EXACTA
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Woody Guthrie and others : OKIES
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Adam Smith or Ethan Allen : DEIST
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The "needle" part of needle grass : AWN
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Scottish sprout : WEELAD
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Item on a Christmas list : TOY
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Party person, for short : POL
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Horse show demonstrations : GAITS
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Desperate : DIRE
31
Pop punk band with the 2002 triple-platinum album "The Young and the Hopeless" : GOODCHARLOTTE
35
Last song heard on Disneyland's Splash Mountain : ZIPADEEDOODAH
36
Relatively important meeting? : FAMILYREUNION
37
Top : ACME
38
Take without credit : AUDIT
39
Ball-bearing piece : TEE
40
Field of three Nobel Prizes: Abbr. : SCI
42
Big game show prize : NEWCAR
47
Pal 4 life : BFF
48
People without a religious affiliation, in modern lingo : NONES
51
___ Island : RHODE
52
Stops lying : ARISES
54
Bug : VWBEETLE
56
Like some operations : COVERT
57
Prime, as bonds : AAARATED
58
Works in the kitchen : KNEADS
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Court luminaries : NBASTARS
Down
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"Batman" comics sound : KAPOW
2
"___ your point" : ITAKE
3
NPR's Roberts : COKIE
4
Request at a palace, maybe : KNEEL
5
Gives oneself something to aim for : SETSAGOAL
6
Frequently, quaintly : OFT
7
Dog-ear, e.g. : FOLD
8
Word on a bingo card : FREE
9
Kindergarten comeback : ARESO
10
Babe Ruth mark broken by Roger Maris : SIXTY
11
Kegler's org. : PBA
12
Noted cliff in Yosemite Valley : ELCAPITAN
13
Balance sheet figure : NETWORTH
14
Frequent Jack Kirby comics collaborator : STANLEE
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"Well, that one doesn't work" : ITSADUD
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Pops : DADDY
28
Relative of sleet : ICERAIN
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Grp. whose flag has 12 stars : THEEU
30
Awarder of a thimble to Alice, in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" : DODO
31
"Up top!" : GIMMEFIVE
32
Anthony's XM Radio partner : OPIE
33
Samurai who's lost his lord : RONIN
34
Laggards : LOITERERS
35
"High School Musical" actor : ZACEFRON
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Greasy part of pork : FATBACK
40
Mortimer of old radio : SNERD
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Figure on a manufacturer's balance sheet : COSTS
43
Puffed ___ : WHEAT
44
It's baked in Italy : COTTA
45
Pioneer in psychoanalysis : ADLER
46
Exemplars of thinness : REEDS
49
"___ Almighty" (2007 film) : EVAN
50
Q-tip, e.g. : SWAB
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Salt source : SEA
55
Bit of barnyard onomatopoeia : BAA

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

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