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New York Times, Friday, May 31, 2013

Author:
Josh Knapp
Editor:
Will Shortz
38-Down : Hush-hush
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Josh Knapp

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 29 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Knapp. Friday freshness: 93%
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© 2013, The New York Times5/31/13 ( No. 23,215 )
Across
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"You doubt me?" : AMIWRONG
9
"Titus" director Taymor : JULIE
14
Disappointing screen message : GAMEOVER
15
Series of movements : SONATA
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Start of a court display : EXHIBITA
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Commensurate (with) : ONAPAR
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What we may be overseas? : NOUS
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Relative of a bathysphere : DIVINGBELL
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Limp Bizkit frontman Fred : DURST
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Ingredient in some pastitsio : ZITI
24
Sacha Baron Cohen character : ALIG
25
Football stat. : ATT
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21, in blackjack : ACETEN
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Have words (with) : SPAR
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Earl of Sandwich, e.g. : EPONYM
30
What was once yours? : THINE
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Some charge cards, informally : AMEXES
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Wee : TEENSY
35
Florentine tourist attraction : DAVID
36
Certainly didn't roar : MEOWED
39
Bellicose figure : ARES
40
Feature of a daredevil circus act : CANNON
41
Dirt collector : MAT
44
Guinness measurement : PINT
45
Kool & the Gang's "Get Down ___" : ONIT
46
Unsolicited manuscripts, informally : SLUSH
48
Get off the ground : TAKEFLIGHT
51
Instruction for a violinist : ARCO
52
It follows a curtain opening : SCENEI
53
Hood's support : MERRYMEN
55
Stir : THECAN
56
Breather? : AQUALUNG
57
Gretzky, for most of the 1980s : OILER
58
Manages : STEWARDS
Down
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Big to-do, maybe? : AGENDA
2
Push to the limit : MAXOUT
3
"That cuts me to the quick" : IMHURT
4
Houdini's real name : WEISS
5
Take the money and run? : ROB
6
J. M. W. Turner's "___ Banished From Rome" : OVID
7
YouTuber, e.g. : NETIZEN
8
It keeps people grounded : GRAVITY
9
"Fear of Flying" author : JONG
10
Brazen : UNABASHED
11
Accessory to a suit : LAPELPIN
12
Many early 20th-century U.S. immigrants : ITALIANS
13
Blend with bergamot : EARLGREY
15
___-law : SONIN
20
Gossip column subject : ITEM
22
Not live : TAPED
27
Function of mathematics: Abbr. : COS
29
It's a living thing : EXISTENCE
30
Much of the Disney Channel's demographic : TEENS
31
Gets comfortable with : ADAPTSTO
32
Style played on a guitarrón : MARIACHI
33
State of stability : EVENKEEL
34
Shout repeated at a basketball game : TWO
36
___-pedi : MANI
37
Causes of head-scratching : ENIGMAS
38
Hush-hush : ONTHEQT
40
Farrell of "In Bruges" : COLIN
41
Hushed sound : MURMUR
42
Get high : ASCEND
43
Strings along a beach? : THONGS
47
1972 hit that begins "What'll you do when you get lonely ...?" : LAYLA
49
"___ leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering": Yoda : FEAR
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"You have a point" : TRUE
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Naked : RAW

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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