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New York Times, Thursday, January 31, 2013

Author:
Mike Buckley
Editor:
Will Shortz
49-Across : Texas hold'em action
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Mike Buckley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 40 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Buckley. Thursday freshness: 99%
Jim Horne notes:

Note the T shapes in the black squares. And every clue begins with T.

1
S
2
P
3
A
4
C
5
E
6
J
7
A
8
M
9
D
10
E
11
S
12
K
13
O
R
G
A
N
I
Z
E
14
R
15
S
I
N
C
E
16
W
O
E
B
E
G
O
N
E
17
A
N
T
O
N
18
S
O
N
A
R
19
C
20
E
L
E
R
O
N
21
F
A
R
O
22
N
23
T
O
L
E
R
A
T
E
24
E
S
E
25
S
U
M
M
O
N
E
D
26
S
27
G
T
28
W
29
A
H
R
30
C
R
Y
31
T
E
A
S
32
T
E
A
S
33
E
34
T
E
E
S
35
R
E
L
36
S
P
E
C
37
A
D
D
38
I
N
A
39
S
40
T
41
A
T
E
42
H
43
S
N
44
M
O
N
A
R
C
H
S
45
O
U
T
46
G
47
O
48
N
E
T
L
I
K
E
49
R
A
I
S
50
E
51
E
V
I
T
E
52
T
53
I
54
N
55
D
E
R
B
O
X
56
S
I
N
E
S
57
E
Q
U
I
T
A
B
L
E
58
S
L
E
D
59
S
T
R
E
S
S
E
D
© 2013, The New York Times1/31/13 ( No. 23,095 )
Across
1
Toon/live action film of 1996 : SPACEJAM
9
Typewriter's spot : DESK
13
Tool for the scatterbrained : ORGANIZER
15
Thereafter : SINCE
16
Tragedy-stricken : WOEBEGONE
17
"Three Sisters" playwright Chekhov : ANTON
18
Torpedo detector : SONAR
19
Trademarked Intel chip : CELERON
21
"This Little Girl of Mine" country singer ___ Young : FARON
23
Take : TOLERATE
24
Telegraph suffix : ESE
25
Told to come : SUMMONED
26
Tripp's rank on "CSI: Miami": Abbr. : SGT
28
True: Ger. : WAHR
30
Tear up : CRY
31
Tetley products : TEAS
32
Twit : TEASE
34
Tiger's bagful : TEES
35
Taoism, e.g.: Abbr. : REL
36
Technical work requirement : SPEC
37
Total : ADD
38
Tense, maybe : INASTATE
42
TV channel with "Style Report" and "Beauty Report" : HSN
44
Tsars and others : MONARCHS
45
Tide's ebb, e.g. : OUTGO
48
Threaded across and down : NETLIKE
49
Texas hold'em action : RAISE
51
Text you might R.S.V.P. to : EVITE
52
Thing that's highly explosive : TINDERBOX
56
Trig functions : SINES
57
Treating all fairly : EQUITABLE
58
Toboggan : SLED
59
Taxed : STRESSED
Down
1
Tosses, as seeds : SOWS
2
Theorem work : PROOF
3
Titan booster : AGENA
4
The Café Carlyle and others : CABARETS
5
Times to start new calendarios : ENEROS
6
"The ___ is up!" : JIG
7
Type of dye : AZO
8
Target audience of Maxim : MEN
9
Ten-spots and such : DINERO
10
Taken : ENTRANCED
11
Traveled by Vespa : SCOOTERED
12
Ted and others : KENNEDYS
14
Third way, maybe : RECOURSE
15
"The House of the Seven Gables" locale : SALEM
20
Towering tree : ELM
22
Tadpole's later form, perhaps : NEWT
23
This puzzle's theme : TSHAPES
26
Turn a blind eye, say : SEENOEVIL
27
Turkey or chicken dish served cold : GALANTINE
29
Taste authority : AESTHETE
31
Toned quality : TRIMNESS
33
Tunnel effect : ECHO
34
Trumpet blares : TANTARAS
39
Treated for preservation, maybe : SALTED
40
Touchdowns : football :: ___ : rugby : TRIES
41
"That's terrible!" : ACK
43
Tec group in old France : SURETE
46
Terri with the 1980 country hit "Somebody's Knockin'" : GIBBS
47
Tenor standard "___ Mio" : OSOLE
50
Took (out) : EXED
53
Test figs. : IQS
54
Tough ___ : NUT
55
Theater head: Abbr. : DIR

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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