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New York Times, Saturday, July 27, 2013

Author:
John Lieb and David Quarfoot
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Down : They're a handful
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195/14/20137/23/20227
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RebusCircleScrabbleFresh
211.5858%
John Lieb
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416/18/200412/4/20147
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21.61385%
David Quarfoot

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Lieb. This is puzzle # 40 for Mr. Quarfoot. Saturday freshness: 34%
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© 2013, The New York Times7/27/13 ( No. 23,272 )
Across
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Fictional amnesiac portrayer : MATTDAMON
10
Out : PASSE
15
Mix and match? : SPEEDDATE
16
Total : INALL
17
Identifies with : RELATESTO
18
Old computing acronym : ENIAC
19
Head Start program service, briefly : PREK
20
Some drillers, for short : NCOS
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Prefix with gram : CENTI
22
Stay (with) : ROOM
23
Turned on a friend, maybe? : SEXTED
24
Painting surface : GESSO
28
Proscribed : TABOO
30
Destination in the "Odyssey" : ITHACA
32
"No need to go on" : NUFFSAID
37
Without embellishment : STARKLY
39
Vitamin in meat, milk and eggs : BTWELVE
40
Resolve a bromance spat, say : HUGITOUT
42
Crime scene sight : CORDON
43
Muscle Beach sights : HEMEN
45
Backs : REARS
46
Garden decorations : GNOMES
50
Evade : DUCK
52
2007 horror sequel : SAWIV
53
It may be hard to reach : ITCH
54
Fool : DUPE
58
1970s subcompact : PINTO
59
Member of a medical minority : MALENURSE
61
British running great Steve : OVETT
62
Start of a Dickensian request : PLEASESIR
63
Clipped : TERSE
64
Emulate Ferris Bueller : SKIPCLASS
Down
1
Dealer's amt. : MSRP
2
Parrot : APER
3
Communications leader? : TELE
4
Big Indonesian export : TEAK
5
"Silent Spring" topic : DDT
6
Gland: Prefix : ADENO
7
Costumed figure : MASCOT
8
Suleiman the Magnificent, for one : OTTOMAN
9
Modernists : NEOS
10
Difficult sort : PIECEOFWORK
11
Addition : ANNEX
12
Common subject of medieval art : SAINT
13
Blank ___ : SLATE
14
Title role for Charlton Heston : ELCID
22
Election-related nonprofit since 1990 : ROCKTHEVOTE
23
Cymbal sound : SOFTC
24
"Mystic Pizza" actress Annabeth : GISH
25
Dramatic accusation : ETTU
26
Cut with more than one layer : SHAG
27
Bit of Bollywood attire : SARI
29
Mac : BUB
31
Base for some incense : ALOES
33
Dry : SERE
34
Tynan player in "The Seduction of Joe Tynan" : ALDA
35
"Severn Meadows" poet Gurney : IVOR
36
Retreats : DENS
38
"Delish!" : YUM
41
Presentation by Bill Clinton in 2007 or Bill Gates in 2010 : TEDTALK
44
Cores : NUCLEI
46
Sensitive subject? : GSPOT
47
Green : NAIVE
48
Sports league V.I.P. : OWNER
49
Paws : MITTS
51
Tawdry : CHEAP
53
They're a handful : IMPS
54
What might put you through your paces? : DUEL
55
Minor opening? : URSA
56
Wave function symbols : PSIS
57
Suffixes with mountain and cannon : EERS
60
Grp. involved in the Abbottabad raid : NSC

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later.

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