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New York Times, Saturday, May 23, 2009

Author:
Dave Tuller
Editor:
Will Shortz
22-Across : Thing you don't want to twist
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Dave Tuller

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 29 Missing: {FJQZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 16 for Mr. Tuller. Saturday freshness: 48%
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© 2009, The New York Times5/23/9 ( No. 21,746 )
Across
1
Squidward's neighbor on Nickelodeon : SPONGEBOB
10
Do before I do's : STAG
14
Academic goal, for some : HONORROLL
15
Did really well : SHONE
16
Sal Tessio's portrayer in "The Godfather" : ABEVIGODA
17
Is concupiscent : LUSTS
18
Parmesan alternative : ROMANO
19
Chills : COOLSIT
21
Skeletal opening? : EXO
22
Thing you don't want to twist : ANKLE
24
Pronunciation guide std. : IPA
25
Home of Riding Mountain National Park : MANITOBA
29
Go ___ some length : ONAT
30
Furnish with battlements, as a castle : CRENELATE
32
Language spoken in Assam, India : KHASI
33
Approach the shore on board? : HANGTEN
34
Corroded : ATEINTO
36
Recurring metrical beat : ICTUS
37
Dinosaur with large thumb spikes : IGUANODON
39
Trey trio : PIPS
40
Drain : EMPTYOUT
41
See 8-Down : PAL
42
Indian employed as a British soldier : SEPOY
43
It may be fair : USE
46
Wife of Pylades : ELECTRA
48
Antarctic dweller : PETREL
51
It's often kept under lock and key : DIARY
52
What you might do after failing : STARTANEW
55
Give out : ISSUE
56
Setting in Pago Pago : SAMOATIME
57
Its motto in Eng. is "It grows as it goes" : NMEX
58
Things that turn people off? : EXITLANES
Down
1
Market purchase : SHARE
2
Numbered rental : POBOX
3
Old company telephone line : ONEMOMENTPLEASE
4
Cured and smoked salmon : NOVA
5
Use one's zygomatic muscles : GRIN
6
It follows that : ERGO
7
Starting word : BOO
8
With 41-Across, one you go way back with : OLD
9
Classic novel with a chapter titled "My Breaking In" : BLACKBEAUTY
10
Holy Ark's location : SHUL
11
1961 #1 hit for Bobby Lewis : TOSSINANDTURNIN
12
First Italian course? : ANTIPASTO
13
An elephant has a long one : GESTATION
15
Astringent fruit : SLOE
20
Rio "hello" : OLA
22
Stuck : ATANIMPASSE
23
Kidder's cry : NOT
26
MacGyver's first name on "MacGyver" : ANGUS
27
Safety equipment : NETS
28
Terre dans l'eau : ILE
29
Athens sch. : OHIOU
30
Helped out : CHIPPEDIN
31
Bunker mentality? : RACIALISM
32
Game played with a sack called a goose : KENO
35
Scotland's longest river : TAY
38
Ltr. center : GPO
40
Ending with what, in verse : EER
42
Problem with a sebaceous gland : STYE
44
Words written on some test papers : SEEME
45
"The Cat's Meow" actor, 2001 : ELWES
47
Core : CRUX
48
Like Luther: Abbr. : PROT
49
Name-dropper's abbr.? : ETAL
50
Pre-takeoff cry? : TATA
53
Good thing to be sheltered from : TAX
54
End of many riddles : AMI

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

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