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New York Times, Friday, June 8, 2007

Author:
Randolph Ross
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Across : Improves
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Randolph Ross

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 31 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 91 for Mr. Ross. Friday freshness: 59%
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© 2007, The New York Times6/8/7 ( No. 21,031 )
Across
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1971 hit with the lyric "He danced for those at minstrel shows" : MRBOJANGLES
12
Big shot? Hardly! : BBS
15
Film in which Ford was president : AIRFORCEONE
16
1998 Tony winner for Best Play : ART
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Clowns : PLAYSAROUND
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Agatha Christie's "___ M?" : NOR
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Flower with a bulb : SEGO
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Have insomnia : LIEAWAKE
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Tough guys : RAMBOS
26
Group on Miles Davis's "Birth of the Cool," e.g. : NONET
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Boxer's training equipment : SPEEDBAG
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Playwright Connelly who won a Pulitzer for "The Green Pastures" : MARC
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Torah's beginning? : TAV
32
Grammy winner Blige : MARYJ
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Like arctic winters : HARSH
35
Least interesting : ARIDEST
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Issue : EMANATE
39
Curved nail : TALON
40
Seen enough : HADIT
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Launch of 1986 : MIR
43
Title boy in a 1964 Disney film : EMIL
44
McIntosh cousins : WINESAPS
46
Improves : HONES
48
Most of Mauritania : DESERT
49
Makes obsolete : OUTDATES
51
"The X-Files" fodder : UFOS
55
A, in Aix : UNE
56
Oscar winner between Tom Hanks and Geoffrey Rush : NICOLASCAGE
60
Victoria in London, e.g.: Abbr. : STN
61
Subject of "The Double Helix" : DNAMOLECULE
62
Id follower : EST
63
Protected areas : SAFETYZONES
Down
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Google heading : MAPS
2
Bring to a boil : RILE
3
Crow : BRAG
4
In the distant past : OFYORE
5
___ A. Bank, menswear retailer : JOS
6
Constellation near Norma : ARA
7
Big ATM maker : NCR
8
Topic in oil exploration : GEOLOGY
9
Tiffany who made Tiffany lamps : LOUIS
10
Relative of -trix : ENNE
11
Body type : SEDAN
12
Girl group with the 1986 #1 hit "Venus" : BANANARAMA
13
"Buy now," e.g. : BROKERSTIP
14
Emergency equipment : STRETCHERS
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Creation of Genesis 2:22 : WOMAN
23
Some pitchers : ADMEN
24
Stern School degs. : MBAS
25
Author of "The Sot-Weed Factor" : BARTH
27
Dome site : STATEHOUSE
28
Supreme rulers : PARAMOUNTS
29
Malice aforethought : EVILINTENT
33
Film knights : JEDIS
34
Misanthrope : HATER
36
Given (out) : DOLED
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Gold digger's destination : MINE
41
Skater dude's exclamation : AWESOME
45
Wall treatment : STUCCO
47
Erstwhile Vegas hotel : SANDS
48
After-dinner request : DECAF
50
Brown with a blue pencil : TINA
52
Pan, for one : FAUN
53
Give a body check? : OGLE
54
Meets : SEES
57
Ultimate outcome : LOT
58
One of the Khans : ALY
59
"___ who?" : SEZ

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

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