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New York Times, Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Author:
Gregory Philip Butler
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Across : Plot device used in "Freaky Friday" ... or a hint to the interior of 20-, 26- or 42-Across
TotalDebut
14/10/2012
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Gregory Philip Butler

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQUXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Butler. Tuesday freshness: 84%
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© 2012, The New York Times4/10/12 ( No. 22,799 )
Across
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Beams : RAYS
5
"Nuts!" : PSHAW
10
Had more than a feeling : KNEW
14
Region : AREA
15
Central Florida city : OCALA
16
Singer with a reputation for being self-centered : DIVA
17
Site for a diet of worms? : NEST
18
Wheeling, Cincinnati and Louisville are in it : OHIOVALLEY
20
Longtime Nicaraguan president : DANIELORTEGA
22
Smoked herring : BLOATER
23
Hollywood's Henry, Jane or Peter : FONDA
26
Instrument that's played by turning a crank : BARRELORGAN
29
Shaq's game : BBALL
32
Old Italian coin : LIRA
33
Trio after Q : RST
35
Shoreline flier : ERNE
36
Adorn with jewels : BEGEM
38
It's not butter : OLEO
39
Truck scale unit : TON
40
1970s Chevy : VEGA
41
Track shapes : OVALS
42
Citrus fruit originally grown in Brazil : NAVELORANGE
46
Director Eastwood : CLINT
47
Eat away at : CORRODE
51
Plot device used in "Freaky Friday" ... or a hint to the interior of 20-, 26- or 42-Across : ROLEREVERSAL
54
Womanish : EFFEMINATE
57
___ breve (2/2 time) : ALLA
58
Drug unit : KILO
59
Bruce of "Sherlock Holmes" films : NIGEL
60
What a milkmaid holds : TEAT
61
God with a bow and arrow : EROS
62
Utopias : EDENS
63
Creepy-sounding lake name? : ERIE
Down
1
Genre for Smokey Robinson : RANDB
2
"That's ___ shame" : AREAL
3
Kind of question : YESNO
4
Like an appetite that can be fulfilled : SATIABLE
5
Car ___ : POOLER
6
Late NPR newsman : SCHORR
7
"Aquarius" musical : HAIR
8
Very much : ALOT
9
Repeating shape on an oscilloscope : WAVEFORM
10
"Constant Craving" singer : KDLANG
11
Zilch : NIL
12
New Year's ___ : EVE
13
Route : WAY
19
Lead-in to phobia : AGORA
21
List ender : ETAL
24
Alfalfa's girl in "The Little Rascals" : DARLA
25
Photographer Adams : ANSEL
27
"Pomp and Circumstance" composer : ELGAR
28
Golfer's concern : LIE
29
"Wanna ___?" : BET
30
Rodeo bucker : BRONC
31
One for the record books? : ANNAL
34
How-___ : TOS
36
Railway encircling a city : BELTLINE
37
It may be inflated : EGO
38
Think too highly of : OVERRATE
40
Poison : VENOM
41
Purple people eater, e.g. : OGRE
43
Red-eyed birds : VIREOS
44
Winning blackjack combo : ACETEN
45
Dickens's output : NOVELS
48
Physician Sir William : OSLER
49
___ Lama : DALAI
50
Thrill : ELATE
52
Oklahoma city : ENID
53
Fury : RAGE
54
Barely make, with "out" : EKE
55
It's green year-round : FIR
56
"Alice" waitress : FLO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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