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New York Times, Friday, April 29, 2016

Author:
Andrew Kingsley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
50-Across : Healing helper
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Andrew Kingsley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 31 Missing: {QXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Kingsley. Grid flow: 64.2 Friday freshness: 40%
Andrew Kingsley notes:
Since this feels like my weepy Oscar acceptance speech, I want to first and foremost thank David Quarfoot for introducing me to ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Debut! Always nice to see another voice in the NYT crossworld, and especially nice to get a nerd culture-flavor that this hardcore ... read more
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© 2016, The New York Times4/29/16 ( No. 24,279 )
Across
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Graveyard hour : FIVEAM
7
Dark as dark can be : JETBLACK
15
Nova Scotia, once : ACADIA
16
Not excessively : INREASON
17
A ghostwriter isn't given one : BYLINE
18
Ball : GOODTIME
19
Haggis ingredient : SUET
20
"What's hangin'?" : SUP
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It comes to a head : IDEA
22
Ursule, e.g.: Abbr. : STE
23
Means of tracking wildlife : IDTAG
26
Old radio dummy : SNERD
27
Squeaker in a cage : HAMSTERWHEEL
30
City on the Oka River : OREL
31
Arles article : LES
32
Lucky strike : TROVE
35
Result of holding or hooking : PENALTY
37
Shot-putter's activity : HEAVING
39
Latin word on a diploma : SUMMA
40
Dedicated to : FOR
41
Conclusion lead-in : ERGO
42
Tropical smoothie flavor : PASSIONFRUIT
45
Double-dipping, e.g. : TABOO
48
Answering to : UNDER
49
___ Balls : SNO
50
Healing helper : ALOE
51
Show that's earned more than 40 Emmys, in brief : SNL
52
Lack of anxiety : EASE
54
Spreadsheet function : SORTDATA
56
Sonnet-ending unit : TERCET
58
72 of its 108 lines end in "-ore" sounds : THERAVEN
59
"The Evangelist" of Christianity : STMARK
60
Book that doesn't require much time or thought : EASYREAD
61
"But still ..." : EVENSO
Down
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Dynamite : FAB
2
Hostile looks : ICYSTARES
3
A 99¢ burger may be on it : VALUEMENU
4
"Desperate Housewives" housewife : EDIE
5
Slangy "True, no?" : AINTIT
6
Questel who voiced Olive Oyl : MAE
7
Fitting gifts for puzzle enthusiasts? : JIGSAWS
8
"Uncle!" : ENOUGH
9
Too much, to Marcel : TROP
10
See 38-Down : BED
11
Valentino type : LATINLOVER
12
Fourth-wall breaker : ASIDE
13
Star on the horizon? : COMER
14
Work digitally? : KNEAD
22
Fill time at an airport, say : SHOP
24
Symbols of change, in math : DELTAS
25
Shot from behind the arc, informally : TREY
26
Shot putter's supply? : SERA
28
Grist for a war of words? : SLAMPOETRY
29
Ageless, ages ago : ETERNE
33
It often catches an infection : VIRUSSCAN
34
Rail heads : ENGINEERS
36
"OMG, I'm cracking up!" : LMAO
37
Place for a stove light : HOOD
38
With 10-Down, turn in : GOTO
40
First country in the world with universal suffrage (1906) : FINLAND
43
Product of natural outdoor steeping : SUNTEA
44
Onetime motel come-on : FREETV
45
Refinement : TASTE
46
Warm welcome? : ALOHA
47
Snoozers : BORES
51
Relief pitcher's success : SAVE
53
Pistolet ou canon : ARME
55
"God, home and country" org. : DAR
56
Literary monogram : TSE
57
Fight call, for short : TKO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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