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New York Times, Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Author:
John R. O'Brien
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
24-Across : Margarine
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John R. O'Brien

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FKQVX} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. O'Brien. Grid flow: 27.5 Tuesday freshness: 73%
Jeff Chen notes:
Many different constructors have written to me about a HIDDEN GEM idea, but it's usually with hiding the word as in SAGO PALM. ... read more
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© 2017, The New York Times1/24/17 ( No. 24,549 )
Across
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Harley-Davidson bike, in slang : HOG
4
Assume the role of : ACTAS
9
Like Vatican affairs : PAPAL
14
Plains tribe name : OTO
15
Emulate Picasso or Pollock : PAINT
16
"Too rich for my blood" : IMOUT
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Place to pay the going rate? : TOLLPLAZA
19
Skin abnormalities : CYSTS
20
Dummies : DODOS
21
Dennis the Menace, for one : IMP
23
Former G.M. compact : GEO
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Margarine : OLEO
25
Put at risk : JEOPARDIZE
29
Affectedly polite : GENTEEL
31
Exactly right : DEADON
32
Former Nevada senator Harry : REID
34
How Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic : ALONE
35
Something that might be thrown behind a teacher's back : PAPERAIRPLANE
40
Bowling venue : LANES
41
Input for fivethirtyeight.com : POLL
42
Like Baroque architecture : ORNATE
44
Purchase payment plan : LAYAWAY
49
In all probability : PRESUMABLY
52
Add punch to, as the punch : LACE
53
___ pro nobis : ORA
54
Cardinal's insignia : STL
55
Florida senator Rubio : MARCO
56
"O death, where is thy ___?": I Corinthians : STING
58
Masterpiece waiting to be found ... or a hint to the words in the circled letters : HIDDENGEM
61
Right-hand page of an open book : RECTO
62
People eaters, maybe : OGRES
63
Work of Horace : ODE
64
Namely, in Latin : IDEST
65
"Toodles" : SEEYA
66
Room with an easy chair : DEN
Down
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"Oh, goody!" : HOTDOG
2
Peter with eight Academy Award nominations (and, sadly, zero wins) : OTOOLE
3
___ Globes : GOLDEN
4
iPad downloads : APPS
5
"Silent" prez : CAL
6
___ Maria : TIA
7
W.W. II Allied landing site in Italy : ANZIO
8
Philatelist's buy : STAMP
9
Polaroid, e.g. : PIC
10
Part of the brain believed to control emotion : AMYGDALA
11
Neptune's Greek counterpart : POSEIDON
12
Big name in car parts : AUTOZONE
13
Capts.' inferiors : LTS
18
Booty : LOOT
22
Rocket launch site : PAD
25
Taunt : JEER
26
"On the Waterfront" director Kazan : ELIA
27
"I'm not kidding!" : REALLY
28
Cincinnati-to-Philadelphia dir. : ENE
30
1974 top 10 foreign-language hit : ERESTU
33
Double-___ recession : DIP
35
Repeated word for word : PARROTED
36
"The Vampire Chronicles" author : ANNERICE
37
The "them" in "Let them eat cake" : PEASANTS
38
Restaurant freebie : ROLL
39
The "thing," to Hamlet : PLAY
40
Cut (off) : LOP
43
Letters on many ambulances : EMS
45
King of comedy : ALAN
46
Mars, for example : WARGOD
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Give in (to) : ACCEDE
48
Guards at Buckingham Palace : YEOMEN
50
One of the Three Musketeers : ATHOS
51
Singer Mary J. ___ : BLIGE
55
___ Verde National Park : MESA
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Guru's title : SRI
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Tricked but good : GOT
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"Dr." who co-founded Beats Electronics : DRE
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Actress Susan : DEY

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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