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New York Times, Friday, June 8, 2012

Author:
Martin Ashwood-Smith
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Across : Poetic period
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Martin Ashwood-Smith

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJKQWXYZ} Spans: 7, (1 triple stack) This is puzzle # 62 for Mr. Ashwood-Smith. Friday freshness: 13%
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© 2012, The New York Times6/8/12 ( No. 22,858 )
Across
1
"I'm a Survivor" sitcom : REBA
5
"West Side Story" girlfriend : ANITA
10
Cabinet maker?: Abbr. : PRES
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Icelandic saga subject : ERICTHERED
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Long way to walk? : HALL
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"Chantez-Chantez" singer, 1957 : DINAHSHORE
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It's 180° from X : IIII
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Cell division? : ANODE
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Places to put up : INNS
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It's taken by some coll. seniors : LSAT
22
Business brass : CEOS
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Some encumbrances : LIENS
25
Class Notes subject, informally : ALUM
27
"___ Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein" (Bach cantata) : ACH
30
Memorial Day performance : TAPS
31
Almost in vain : TOLITTLEPURPOSE
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Road locomotives : TRACTIONENGINES
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Runners often seen in windows : AIRCONDITIONERS
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Big names : VIPS
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Poetic period : EEN
40
Idaho motto opener : ESTO
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Big guns in the Mideast : EMIRS
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Norman with a legendary swing : GREG
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Flying ___ : DISC
46
Put away : ICED
50
Kosher's Islamic equivalent : HALAL
53
Digital protection : NAIL
54
Water flow regulator : SLUICEGATE
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Dip ___ in : ATOE
57
Trafalgar Square figure : LORDNELSON
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Lacking : SANS
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Took home courses? : ATEIN
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Salinger girl : ESME
Down
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Hester Prynne's stigma : REDA
2
Journalist Burnett of 55-Down : ERIN
3
Aid in judging distances : BINOCULARVISION
4
School rings? : ACADEMICCIRCLES
5
Some patient responses : AHS
6
Beverage once sold "in all popular flavors" : NEHI
7
Press : IRON
8
Coastal plunger : TERN
9
Some pitcherfuls : ADES
10
Southeast Asian soarer : PHILIPPINEEAGLE
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First name in 2000 headlines : ELIAN
13
Venting aids : SLITS
15
Director Angelopoulos who won the 1988 Palme d'Or : THEO
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The Five ___, 1950s million-selling doo-wop group : SATINS
24
Slow passage : LARGO
25
"___ baby!" : ATTA
26
Singer learning a script : LORI
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Bonehead : CLOD
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"Iceland" star, 1942 : HENIE
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Function of some forks : TUNING
32
1970s Thunderbird options : TTOPS
33
Rose family member : PETE
34
Waldorf-Astoria muralist : SERT
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Tiger Express station brand : ESSO
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___ Edibles (food shop on "The Facts of Life") : EDNAS
42
Spyder rival : MIATA
44
South Korea's first president : RHEE
46
Luzón, e.g. : ISLA
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Cardiological concern : CLOT
48
River at Chartres : EURE
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Conn of "Grease" : DIDI
51
Its diameter is measured in picometers : ATOM
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Singer Lovich : LENE
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Home of "Your Bottom Line" : CNN

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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