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New York Times, Friday, November 15, 2013

Author:
David Woolf
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
51-Across : More pointed
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David Woolf

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 26 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 3 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Woolf. Friday freshness: 98%
David Woolf notes:
I started puzzling and constructing around the same time. Which is to say I started out only being able to solve (and construct) ... read more
Will Shortz notes:
This is David Woolf's debut. All three 15-letter answers are particularly nice. OSCAR WAO was new to me, but I've read up a little on ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Debut! Some great entries today; I love to see snappy phrases like CASH BARS and SEA OTTERS, and it's nice that OSCAR WAO gets his ... read more
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© 2013, The New York Times11/15/13 ( No. 23,383 )
Across
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Their drinks are not on the house : CASHBARS
9
Rough limestone regions with sinkholes and caverns : KARSTS
15
Novel title character with a "brief, wondrous life" : OSCARWAO
16
Hawaii's Forbidden Isle : NIIHAU
17
"... period!" : NOIFSANDSORBUTS
19
One buzzing off? : GNAT
20
Three Stooges display : IDIOCY
21
Some lab leaders, for short : TAS
22
Like most hall-of-fame inductees: Abbr. : RET
23
Gave belts or socks : STRUCK
24
Swamp : MIRE
25
Female friends, to Francisco : AMIGAS
27
Early-millennium year : MII
28
Jet black : ONYX
29
Some are soft-shell : TACOS
30
Spread out : OPENED
32
He cast the Killing Curse on Dumbledore : SNAPE
33
What the Flying Wallendas refuse to use : NET
34
Powerful Hindu deities : DEVAS
38
That same number of : ASMANY
40
Diner's words of thanks : GRACE
41
Unlucky accidents, old-style : HAPS
44
Co. led by Baryshnikov in the 1980s : ABT
45
It broke up in the age of dinosaurs : PANGEA
46
Not procrastinating : ONIT
47
Midday assignation, in slang : NOONER
49
Stink : ADO
50
Olive ___ : OYL
51
More pointed : ACUTER
52
Give an underhanded hand? : ABET
53
Assertion more likely to be correct if 8-Down is given : THETRUTHWILLOUT
56
Decision makers : COURTS
57
Axis, e.g. : ALLIANCE
58
"Fingers crossed" : HOPESO
59
Whose eyes Puck squeezes magical juice on : LYSANDER
Down
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"Well done!" : CONGRATS
2
With no dissenters : ASONEMAN
3
Common result of a slipped disk : SCIATICA
4
Foil feature : HAFT
5
Realty ad abbr. : BRS
6
Lies ahead : AWAITS
7
What a vacay provides : RANDR
8
What an interrogator might administer : SODIUMPENTOTHAL
9
Bring home, as a run : KNOCKIN
10
Light as a feather : AIRY
11
One in a cage : RIB
12
Confined : SHUTIN
13
Vast historical region controlled by the Mongols : TATARY
14
Kingdom next to Kent : SUSSEX
18
See 24-Down : SOCIETY
23
They aid responses, in brief : SASES
24
With 18-Down, life today : MODERN
26
Transcend : GOPAST
30
Speaking of repeatedly, to a Brit : ONABOUT
31
1984 award for Elmore Leonard : EDGAR
35
Drifting type : VAGABOND
36
Good hand holding in Omaha Hi-Lo : ACEDEUCE
37
It has the densest fur of any animal : SEAOTTER
39
Alpine skier Julia who won Olympic gold in 2006 : MANCUSO
41
Still-produced stuff : HOOTCH
42
Slangy segue : ANYHOO
43
Awful accident : PILEUP
45
Hazards : PERILS
48
Afresh : NEWLY
51
Film and theater : ARTS
52
Actor Rickman who played 32-Across : ALAN
54
Low numero : TRE
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___ Fáil (Irish coronation stone) : LIA

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

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