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New York Times, Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Author:
Zoe Wheeler
Editor:
Will Shortz
Essential part necessary for fulfilling a goal ... or what 17-, 25-, 48- and 57-Across all have?
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Zoe Wheeler

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JKWX} This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Wheeler. Tuesday freshness: 73%
Jim Horne notes:

With this puzzle, 19-year-old Zoe Wheeler became the youngest female constructor in NYT crossword history. See Wordplay for an interview.

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© 2010, The New York Times1/19/10 ( No. 21,987 )
Across
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#1 position : ACME
5
According to : ASPER
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I.R.S. figures: Abbr. : SSNS
14
Coal cart : TRAM
15
Handed (out) : DOLED
16
First Indian tribe met by Lewis and Clark : OTOE
17
Bird watcher's accessory : BINOCULARS
19
The Crimson Tide, familiarly : BAMA
20
Week-___-glance calendar : ATA
21
What a coach driver holds : REIN
22
2, for one : DIGIT
23
Trace of color : TINGE
25
Tide or Cheer : DETERGENT
28
Beetles sacred to ancient Egyptians : SCARABS
30
Language suffix : ESE
31
Prefix with content : MAL
32
"___ recall ..." : ASI
33
One of five in "Julius Caesar" : ACT
34
___ d'Ivoire (African land) : COTE
35
Essential part necessary for fulfilling a goal ... or what 17-, 25-, 48- and 57-Across all have? : NAMEOFTHEGAME
39
Droids : BOTS
40
Flee : LAM
41
___ de Cologne : EAU
42
Winter hrs. in Bermuda : AST
43
Peace, in Peru : PAZ
44
Compresses, informally : SMUSHES
48
Symbol of life : HEARTBEAT
51
Ones in a gaggle : GEESE
52
"So long" : ADIOS
53
Demolish : RAZE
55
Young fellow : LAD
56
Certain iPod or skirt : MINI
57
Cheesy Mexican snack : QUESADILLA
60
Knievel on a motorcycle : EVEL
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Smarty : BRAIN
62
Working without ___ : ANET
63
Actor Beatty and others : NEDS
64
Wuss : SISSY
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What a jack-of-all-trades is master of, supposedly : NONE
Down
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Baseball statistics : ATBATS
2
"Everyone's a ___" : CRITIC
3
Procrastinator's response : MANANA
4
Rock music subcategory : EMO
5
Together, on musical scores : ADUE
6
Sphere and cube : SOLIDS
7
Smoothing tool : PLANE
8
Suffix with election : EER
9
Things with shoulders: Abbr. : RDS
10
Edna Ferber novel : SOBIG
11
Young starlet's promoter, maybe : STAGEMOM
12
Propose for election : NOMINATE
13
Where Starbucks was founded : SEATTLE
18
Ironing line : CREASE
22
Rap's Dr. ___ : DRE
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There are about 28.35 of these in an ounce : GRAMS
26
Georgia ___ : TECH
27
High regard : ESTEEM
29
Place for a petri dish : BIOLAB
33
Sign at a convenience store : ATM
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Save the Whales, for one : CAUSE
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Plummet : NOSEDIVE
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Got : ATTAINED
37
Disconcert : FAZE
38
Measured : GAUGED
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"Who Let the Dogs Out" group : BAHAMEN
43
Score components: Abbr. : PTS
44
Equilibrium : STASIS
45
"Absolutely not!" : HELLNO
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___ Institute, California retreat center for alternative education : ESALEN
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Tranquilize : SEDATE
49
Stirs : ROILS
50
Neighborhoods : AREAS
54
Wacky : ZANY
57
Ones making handoffs, for short : QBS
58
Geller with supposed psychic powers : URI
59
McEwan or McKellen : IAN

Answer summary: 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.

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