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New York Times, Saturday, March 10, 2007

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
6-Across : Small drawing?
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981.5480%
Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JKQVX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 94 for Mr. Berry. Saturday freshness: 66%
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© 2007, The New York Times3/10/7 ( No. 20,941 )
Across
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Real name of a Disney title character : SIMBA
6
Small drawing? : PUFF
10
15-ml unit : TBSP
14
Broadcasting : ONAIR
15
Falls into decline : ATROPHIES
17
With the help of : USING
18
Providers of tip-offs? : NAILFILES
19
Laurel and Hardy film with the line "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" : SONSOFTHEDESERT
21
Middle-earth resident : ELF
22
Gene ___, 1932 U.S. and British Open champ : SARAZEN
23
Nikola Tesla, for one : SERB
25
Information for the record : LINERNOTES
30
Becomes an issue : ARISES
32
Total : INALL
33
Rock group whose members all assumed the same last name, with "the" : RAMONES
35
Flip alternative : PAGEBOY
37
Eclipses, to some : OMENS
38
At the back : DORSAL
39
Headmaster's faculty : DISCIPLINE
42
"I must have missed the ___" : MEMO
45
Concern for a hostess : SEATING
47
Part of a certain college course : LAB
48
Desserts from the South : SWEETPOTATOPIES
53
Wild-haired stock character : MADDOCTOR
54
One of the Traveling Wilburys : LYNNE
55
Prepared to strike, perhaps : UNIONIZED
56
Coat hangers-on : FLEAS
57
Bristle (with) : TEEM
58
Outfit : DUDS
59
Lets fly : SENDS
Down
1
Pickles : SOUSES
2
It's often underfoot : INSOLE
3
"Big iron," in hacker slang : MAINFRAMES
4
Plastic containers : BINS
5
Greek city that remained neutral during the Persian Wars : ARGOS
6
Grocery stores : PANTRIES
7
What many Latter-day Saints are : UTAHANS
8
Architectural element often decorated with bas-reliefs : FRIEZE
9
Computer desktop icon : FOLDER
10
Radio's "___ American Life" : THIS
11
Ill will : BILE
12
Amphilochus, in Greek myth : SEER
13
Sound from a test cheater, say : PSST
16
Divisions of a mark : PFENNIGS
20
Made-up : FALSE
24
Unbroken mount : BRONC
26
Witching hour follower : ONEAM
27
Laundry that's often food-stained : TABLELINEN
28
"Strange Magic" band, for short : ELO
29
Designing : SLY
31
Demand : INSISTON
33
Retinal cell : ROD
34
Any of the Three Musketeers : AMI
35
Narrow-bladed weapons : PONIARDS
36
"___ we all?" : ARENT
38
Said the same : DITTOED
40
___ AC (pharmacy purchase) : PEPCID
41
"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful" espouser : LAOTZU
43
Female bacchanalian : MAENAD
44
Take hold of, in a way : OBSESS
46
Follows a course : GOLFS
48
Scuzz : SMUT
49
Flag : WANE
50
Warhol actress Sedgwick : EDIE
51
Birthplace of Herod the Great : EDOM
52
One of Carter's charges, on TV : PYLE

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

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