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New York Times, Thursday, September 7, 2006

Author:
Lucy Gardner Anderson
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Down : Warehouse roller
TotalDebutLatest
49/7/200610/14/2008
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0020200
CircleScrabbleFresh
11.5725%
Lucy Gardner Anderson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 44 Missing: {FJKQVX} This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Anderson. Thursday freshness: 14%
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© 2006, The New York Times9/7/6 ( No. 20,757 )
Across
1
5338 : BEES
5
Food that's the subject of a museum in Austin, Minn. : SPAM
9
4615 : SIGH
13
Jarful for Italian cuisine : RAGU
14
1961 biography/war film epic : ELCID
16
Kournikova of tennis : ANNA
17
Two in the news : ITEM
18
Title ship in a 1951 best seller : CAINE
19
Hail : LAUD
20
With 35- and 53-Across, how to decipher each numerical clue : DISPLAYDIGITS
23
Ending with insist : ENT
24
Gridiron stat. : INTS
25
Corolla part : PETAL
28
Prefix in cloud names : ALTO
29
Grocery section : PRODUCE
31
Test stage : BETA
33
370 : OLE
34
Milk cap game piece : POG
35
See 20-Across : ONACALCULATOR
40
Major Eur. oil producer : NOR
41
Diaper condition : WET
42
___-raising : BARN
43
Catherine or Elizabeth, e.g. : CZARINA
46
Standardized H.S. exam : PSAT
48
Some towed vehicles : REPOS
49
Neophyte : COLT
50
E.R. status : DOA
53
See 20-Across : TURNTOSEEWORD
57
Short tail : SCUT
59
Film producer Carlo : PONTI
60
"Enchanted" girl in a 2004 film : ELLA
61
Animal with a 57-Across : HARE
62
Fix, as a trench : REDIG
63
6078 : BLOG
64
Followers of a bellwether : EWES
65
Genesis son : SETH
66
Part of a New Year's Eve party song : SYNE
Down
1
Head of a train? : BRIDE
2
Kind of kitchen : EATIN
3
Excrete : EGEST
4
Drainage pool : SUMP
5
Trigonometric ratio : SECANT
6
Seek the approval of : PLAYTO
7
Causes of breakdowns : ACIDS
8
Certain iPod : MINI
9
Put (away) : SALTED
10
Out of it : INASTUPOR
11
Beard wearer : GNU
12
Conned : HAD
15
Univ. offering : DEG
21
Purplish : LILAC
22
Certain stock option, briefly : IPO
26
Nut with bitter tannin : ACORN
27
637 : LEG
28
___ minimum : ATA
29
Like men and women: Abbr. : PLU
30
Belief sys. : REL
31
32008 : BOOZE
32
Thrill : ENRAPTURE
33
Harvest time: Abbr. : OCT
36
Wheat beard : AWN
37
Place for a flock : LEA
38
Let up : ABATE
39
Bit of retribution : TAT
40
Inits. at checkout : NCR
44
Bus lines, e.g. : ROUTES
45
Foe of Hezbollah: Abbr. : ISR
46
Stickie : POSTIT
47
461375 : SLEIGH
49
___ Nast magazines : CONDE
50
Warehouse roller : DOLLY
51
Acrylic fiber : ORLON
52
Bit of wisdom : ADAGE
54
"Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" airer : NPR
55
Sock parts : TOES
56
Entanglements : WEBS
57
345 : SHE
58
Avian cry : CAW

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

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