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New York Times, Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Author:
Ian Livengood
Editor:
Will Shortz
57-Across : 1989 play about Capote
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Ian Livengood

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {J} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Livengood. Wednesday freshness: 28%
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© 2010, The New York Times10/6/10 ( No. 22,247 )
Across
1
Red October detector : SONAR
6
Mystified : ATSEA
11
Support grp. for the troops : USO
14
Pong maker : ATARI
15
Hardly chic : DUMPY
16
Black goo : TAR
17
1970 James Taylor hit : FIREANDRAIN
19
Egg cells : OVA
20
See 2-Down : ESCALATOR
21
Go over : SPAN
22
Mischievous rural pastime : COWTIPPING
25
Kind of agent : CAUSAL
30
"I can ___" : RELATE
31
Hatch on the Senate floor : ORRIN
32
Start of a dog owner's sign : BEWARE
35
Keeping your elbows off the table, e.g. : DINNERETIQUETTE
40
Surrounded by : AMIDST
41
Basslike fish : SNOOK
42
Complaints, informally : STATIC
45
Renter : LESSEE
46
Classic Dana Carvey character, with "the" : CHURCHLADY
50
Eastern discipline : YOGA
51
Bygone warship : IRONSIDES
57
1989 play about Capote : TRU
58
Sound of capitalism? ...or a hint to the starts of 17-, 22-, 35- and 46-Across : OPENINGBELL
60
Orders at a restaurant : HAS
61
Restaurant order, with "the" : USUAL
62
Tempt : TEASE
63
Bus. card info : EXT
64
Luxurious : RITZY
65
Building material in "The Three Little Pigs" : STRAW
Down
1
Bombproof, say : SAFE
2
Big name in the 20-Across business : OTIS
3
Undercover buster : NARC
4
Turf : AREA
5
Iranian money : RIAL
6
Supplement : ADDTO
7
"Presumed Innocent" author : TUROW
8
Brainy : SMART
9
Prefix with dermis : EPI
10
Rand who wrote "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" : AYN
11
Best of all possible worlds : UTOPIA
12
Idiot ___ : SAVANT
13
"High," in the Homeland Security Advisory System : ORANGE
18
Common crystals, chemically : NACL
21
Body organs associated with anger : SPLEENS
23
"The Hurt Locker" setting : IRAQ
24
Browse : PERUSE
25
Mail-order option : COD
26
___ Gold, agent on "Entourage" : ARI
27
Samovar : URN
28
Singer honored on a 2008 U.S. postage stamp : SINATRA
29
Lacking brio : ANEMIC
32
Flower's home : BED
33
Frequent Weekly World News subjects, briefly : ETS
34
Wordplay, e.g. : WIT
36
Full of calories : RICH
37
How-___ : TOS
38
Nail holder : TOE
39
Just make (out) : EKE
42
Swath maker : SCYTHE
43
Chest : THORAX
44
Lordly : AUGUST
45
Boston suburb : LYNN
47
Capt.'s inferior : LIEUT
48
Ball's partner : ARNAZ
49
Valentine embellishment : DOILY
52
Capt.'s inferiors : SGTS
53
"Ri-i-ight!" : IBET
54
Sweets : DEAR
55
Designer Schiaparelli : ELSA
56
Ton : SLEW
58
"___ Father ..." : OUR
59
Tire abbr. : PSI

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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