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New York Times, Thursday, May 23, 2013

Author:
David Levinson Wilk
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
29-Across : Mike holders
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David Levinson Wilk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {QX} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 21 for Mr. Wilk. Grid flow: 15.0 Thursday freshness: 43%
Jim Horne notes:

This puzzle has a cleverly disorienting use of circles that I've never seen before. The letters in the circles themselves have no special meaning. It's only their positions relative to the squares above them that matter.

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© 2013, The New York Times5/23/13 ( No. 23,207 )
Across
1
"Twilight" author Stephenie : MEYER
6
Green of TV's "Robot Chicken" : SETH
10
Texas' ___ Ranch : LBJ
13
"The Faerie Queene" woman : IRENA
14
Like typical law school programs : THREEYEAR
16
Store with a red star logo : MACYS
17
Some Monopoly purchases : RAILROADS
18
With 50-Across, how one can tell that this puzzle was up all night waiting to be solved? : ITHASCIRCLES
20
Mattress problem : LUMP
21
Churchill, e.g. : TORY
25
Setting of Camus's "The Stranger" : ALGIERS
29
Mike holders : MCS
32
Not merely a : THE
33
Genteel affairs : TEAS
34
Firebrand : AGITATOR
36
"I haven't made up my mind" : MAYBEYESMAYBENO
40
Hysterical states : FRENZIES
41
Language whose alphabet reads from right to left : URDU
42
Some of Vanna's letters? : ENS
43
Hosp. staffers : RNS
44
Suggests : HINTSAT
47
Old Testament book: Abbr. : ESTH
49
Crumbly topping : FETA
50
See 18-Across : UNDERITSEYES
58
Nobelists, e.g. : LAUREATES
61
Spooky sound : CREAK
62
Tennis players in action : VOLLEYERS
63
___ Blaine, protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise" : AMORY
64
___ de Montréal : ILE
65
A shot in the arm, say : DOSE
66
Grammy winner Lou : RAWLS
Down
1
Actress Rogers : MIMI
2
"In principio ___ Verbum" (biblical phrase) : ERAT
3
"Bleah!" : YECH
4
2006 Grammy winner for "Amarantine" : ENYA
5
Scrap : RASSLE
6
Quick : SHARP
7
Representative Cantor : ERIC
8
Bluffer's giveaway : TELL
9
"Take it!" : HERE
10
Bucolic setting : LEA
11
Fraudulent, say : BAD
12
Third class?: Abbr. : JRS
14
Some salon jobs : TRIMS
15
Baseball manager Ned : YOST
19
Snarler, of a sort : CUR
22
Whiskered beasts : OTTERS
23
Fleming of "Spellbound" : RHONDA
24
Ump's cry : YEROUT
25
Side effect of a withdrawal? : ATMFEE
26
Catches wind of : LEARNS
27
Most festive : GAYEST
28
Info on the reverse of a title page: Abbr. : ISBN
29
"High Society" studio : MGM
30
The sculpture "Kryptos" sits outside its hdqrs. : CIA
31
Pen : STY
34
Idiot : ASS
35
Border : ABUT
37
Old Testament book: Abbr. : EZR
38
Female half : YIN
39
Some M.I.T. grads : EES
44
Five-time world figure skating champion Carol : HEISS
45
Big corp. in the aerospace industry : ITT
46
Org. whose members wear fire-resistant clothing : NASCAR
48
Cast : HURL
49
Part of la famille : FRERE
51
Call for : NEED
52
"Me say" this word in a 1957 hit : DAYO
53
Hot times in Haiti : ETES
54
Columnist Bombeck : ERMA
55
"Yikes!" : YEOW
56
___ of Warwick (War of the Roses figure) : EARL
57
"The ___ the limit" : SKYS
58
Mid first-century year : LVI
59
Company with a "Running Man" symbol : AOL
60
Diminutive suffix : ULE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle.

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