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New York Times, Friday, November 25, 2011

Author:
Joe Krozel
Editor:
Will Shortz
14-Across : Roll up
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Joe Krozel

This puzzle:

Rows: 16, Columns: 15 Words: 71, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 6, (1 quad stack) This is puzzle # 49 for Mr. Krozel. Friday freshness: 28%
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© 2011, The New York Times11/25/11 ( No. 22,662 )
Across
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Mussel morsel : ALGA
5
Observes, with "of" : TAKESNOTE
14
Roll up : FURL
15
It might tax a levee : WATERLEVEL
16
Lots of stadiums have them : TAILGATEPARTIES
18
Something soaked up : SUN
19
Super Bowl of 2029 : LXIII
20
Hoboken-to-Fort Lee dir. : NNE
21
When to begin an operation : DDAY
23
Grp. advising the president : NSC
25
1940s-'50s White House name : BESS
26
Way out: Abbr. : ESC
27
Topkapi title : AGA
29
Baltimore Orioles' spring training site : SARASOTAFLORIDA
38
His inventory has gone many miles : USEDCARSALESMAN
39
"Amazing Grace" melody basis : PENTATONICSCALE
40
Naive optimism : STARSINONESEYES
41
Time of day, briefly : EEN
42
Start to stick? : NON
43
17-Down part : PANE
46
Campaign manager: Abbr. : GEN
49
When many ballots are cast: Abbr. : TUES
51
Blood-typing syst. : ABO
52
Subject of the 2007 biography subtitled "The Man Who Became a Book" : ROGET
54
Old wiring org. : UPI
57
Get smitten hard : GOHEADOVERHEELS
62
Workers associated with ding-dongs : AVONLADIES
63
"Chicago" husband ___ Hart : AMOS
64
Reason to "interrupt this program" : NEWSBREAK
65
It happens by default : REPO
Down
1
Times of day, briefly : AFTS
2
Island do : LUAU
3
Tedious work : GRIND
4
See 44-Down : ALL
5
Star of "Mon Oncle" : TATI
6
Didn't take out? : ATEIN
7
French military wear : KEPIS
8
Tudor ___ : ERA
9
Canonflex, e.g. : SLR
10
Take in : NET
11
Like a wool supplier : OVINE
12
Period of rapid growth : TEENS
13
No one ___ business : ELSES
15
Cerecloth feature : WAXYCOATING
17
Bell jar relative : GLASSCASE
22
Hard-copy : DEADTREE
24
Where "operators are standing by" : CALLCENTERS
25
Backdrop for many singles matches? : BARSCENE
28
Declines : GOESSOUTH
29
Takes evening courses? : SUPS
30
At ___ time (prearranged) : ASET
31
Sofer of soaps : RENA
32
Beta follower : TRON
33
___ other (uniquely) : ASNO
34
Gladly, old-style : FAIN
35
Wishy-washy response : IMAY
36
Land in a depression : DALE
37
Hydrocarbon endings : ANES
43
Like some rites : PAGAN
44
With 4-Down, first and foremost : ABOVE
45
"Ain't gonna happen!" : NOHOW
47
Opposite of build up : ERODE
48
Girlfriend, in Granada : NOVIA
50
Dismissive retort : SUEME
53
Circus performer : GEEK
55
Sound associated with ripples : PLOP
56
"That ___ you!" : ISSO
58
Napkin edges? : ENS
59
Adriatic repub. : ALB
60
"God, home and country" org. : DAR
61
Place to put a plug : EAR

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

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