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New York Times, Friday, June 28, 2013

Author:
Ian Livengood and Brad Wilber
Editor:
Will Shortz
40-Across : Lodging for a night out?
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Ian Livengood
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Brad Wilber

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 29 Missing: {KV} Scrabble average: 1.90 This is puzzle # 27 for Mr. Livengood. This is puzzle # 31 for Mr. Wilber. Friday freshness: 77%
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© 2013, The New York Times6/28/13 ( No. 23,243 )
Across
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Mobile home? : SNAILSHELL
11
Made fun of, in a way : APED
15
Bygone sportscaster with a statue outside Wrigley Field : HARRYCARAY
16
Fan letters? : XOXO
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They may lead to another story : ESCALATORS
18
"Popular Fallacies" byline, 1826 : ELIA
19
Not so apple-cheeked : ASHIER
20
"Sure, I'm game" : YESLETS
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Overzealous promgoer's choice, maybe : TAILS
23
Address add-on : QANDA
25
Noted press conference rhymer : ALI
26
What some swatches preview : HUES
27
Where Achilles was dipped to make him invincible : STYX
28
Representer of time, often : XAXIS
30
Part of a publicity agent's job : SPIN
31
Ochoa who was the first #1-ranked golfer from Mexico : LORENA
32
Waltz component : BOXSTEP
36
O, more formally : WINFREY
37
Fee on some out-of-state purchases : USETAX
38
Bats : ZANY
39
Longtime Capone rival : MORAN
40
Lodging for a night out? : TENT
41
Single mom in a 2000s sitcom : REBA
45
Party to the Oslo Accords, for short : PLO
46
In the loop, with "in" : CLUED
48
South Pacific palm : BETEL
49
Business that may be a zoning target : SEXSHOP
51
Walk ostentatiously : SASHAY
52
Drop : OMIT
53
Some contemporary ads : WEBBANNERS
56
Chance upon : FIND
57
Unlikely pageant winners : PLAINJANES
58
Muddles : FOGS
59
Many a John Wayne pic : HORSEOPERA
Down
1
Scabbard : SHEATH
2
Base for Blackbeard : NASSAU
3
Fictional student at Riverdale High : ARCHIE
4
Train track parts : IRAILS
5
Actors Talbot and Waggoner : LYLES
6
Disney villain : SCAR
7
Monopoly token : HAT
8
Spanish occupational suffix : ERO
9
Pitch producer : LARYNX
10
Dissolved, as bacteria exposed to antibodies : LYSED
11
"Double" or "triple" move : AXEL
12
Certain medieval combatant : POLEAXER
13
Rhett Butler's "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," e.g. : EXITLINE
14
Nanny's order : DOASISAY
21
State with Leipzig and Dresden : SAXONY
23
Stick in a cabinet : QTIP
24
Objectivist Rand : AYN
27
X-ray ___ : SPEX
29
Chihuahua cry : ARF
30
Stop : STANCH
31
What a brush may pick up : LINT
32
Ices : BUMPSOFF
33
Common number of gondoliers : OSOLEMIO
34
Intern's duty, maybe : XEROXING
35
Stop: Abbr. : STA
36
Magician's prop : WAND
38
Lightning bolt shape : ZEE
40
Mississippi site of Machine Gun Kelly's last known bank robbery : TUPELO
41
Close again, as a change purse : RESNAP
42
Emission of ripening fruit : ETHENE
43
Ending with flag or pall : BEARER
44
Actress Milano of "Charmed" : ALYSSA
47
Marked acidity : LOWPH
48
Earl Scruggs's instrument : BANJO
50
The E.P.A. issues them: Abbr. : STDS
51
Cogent : SANE
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Dial unit : BAR
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"Encore!," to a diva : BIS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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