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New York Times, Thursday, March 10, 2016

Author:
Ed Sessa
Editor:
Will Shortz
48-Across : "Will it play in ___?"
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Edward Sessa

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 31 for Mr. Sessa. Thursday freshness: 62%
Jeff Chen notes:
I enjoy puzzles that play with shapes of letters. This one uses two Vs squeezed into a single square in the horizontal direction, but ... read more
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C
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K
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© 2016, The New York Times3/10/16 ( No. 24,229 )
Across
1
Not much : ATAD
5
French writer who co-founded the newspaper Combat : CAMUS
10
Adriatic port : BARI
14
Pronoun in "America the Beautiful" : THEE
15
It covers the globe : OZONE
16
Had too much ecstasy, for short? : ODED
17
Former C.I.A. director Panetta : LEON
18
Donizetti's lady of Lammermoor : LUCIA
19
Rolls for dogs : BUNS
20
Old jalopy : FLIVVER
22
Spanish uncle : TIO
24
Pasture : LEA
25
Mounts : CLIMBS
26
Proficient, computerwise : TECHSAVVY
28
Pro vote : YEA
29
Jai ___ : ALAI
31
Overplays one's role : EMOTES
32
In: Fr. : DANS
34
Former British P.M. Douglas-Home : ALEC
36
Old Olds : ALERO
37
Subject of medical research since the 1980s : HIVVACCINE
40
Big cat in Narnia : ASLAN
43
It's inclined to provide entertainment for kids : SLED
44
It holds 5,148 potential flushes : DECK
48
"Will it play in ___?" : PEORIA
50
Exchange at the altar : IDOS
52
Hawaiian bowlful : POI
53
Gunning : REVVINGUP
55
Attack : LASHAT
57
Former communications corp. : ITT
58
Where Dodge City is: Abbr. : KAN
59
Mufti : CIVVIES
60
Answer to the old riddle "What's round on the ends and high in the middle?" : OHIO
62
"Taking you places" network : STARZ
64
1999 Ron Howard satire : EDTV
66
Foxx of "Sanford and Son" : REDD
67
Emphatic follower of yes or no : SIREE
68
Evolved : GREW
69
___ fixe : IDEE
70
"O.K., you caught me" : ILIED
71
"Antenna" : EARS
Down
1
N.B.A. div. : ATL
2
John Donne poem with a line starting "It suck'd me first ..." : THEFLEA
3
Wind-blown : AEOLIAN
4
Blue material : DENIM
5
One side of a diner? : COLESLAW
6
Shade of bleu : AZUR
7
Soft shoe, for short : MOC
8
Marxist exhortation to "workers of the world" : UNITE
9
Polar bear habitat : SEAICE
10
Head motion : BOB
11
Put on a pedestal : ADULATE
12
Longtime subscriber, maybe : RENEWER
13
"Sounds right" : IDSAYSO
21
Ring master's org. : WBA
23
"Jeez!" : OHMAN
25
Dancer Charisse : CYD
26
Item often kept with cuff links : TIECLIP
27
Did a cobbler's job on : SOLED
30
"Ah, well" : ALAS
33
Lewis who voiced Lamb Chop : SHARI
35
Sent a dupe email to : CCED
38
How contracts are signed : ININK
39
Put on a pedestal : IDOLIZED
40
Based on deduction rather than experience : APRIORI
41
Smoldered with rage : SEETHED
42
When a sandbar may appear above the waterline : LOWTIDE
45
F.D.A.-banned weight-loss supplement : EPHEDRA
46
The drink's on me : COASTER
47
Young fox : KIT
49
Andre who wrote "Open: An Autobiography" : AGASSI
51
Perform some millwork : SAW
54
Up to : UNTIL
56
Wait-'em-out strategy : SIEGE
59
Saskatchewan native : CREE
61
Shelley's "To a Skylark," for one : ODE
63
Jackie O's man : ARI
65
Bugs, e.g. ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme : VWS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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