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New York Times, Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Author:
Sarah Keller
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
11-Down : The movie "Wordplay," for one
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Sarah Keller

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQWZ} This is puzzle # 47 for Ms. Keller. Tuesday freshness: 60%
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© 2010, The New York Times6/1/10 ( No. 22,120 )
Across
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No-no : TABOO
6
Late football star and FTD pitchman Merlin : OLSEN
11
Driver's lic. and such : IDS
14
Take forcibly : USURP
15
Sluggo's comics pal : NANCY
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Thing to pick : NIT
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Buck's mate : DOE
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Two cents' worth : SAY
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Morales of "La Bamba" : ESAI
22
Capitol Hill worker : AIDE
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27
Name to the cabinet, say : APPOINT
30
Comic-strip light bulb : IDEA
31
Van Susteren of Fox News : GRETA
32
Ajax or Bon Ami : CLEANSER
36
Weed whacker : HOER
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BID : OFFER
39
Movie pal of Stitch : LILO
40
Strange : ABNORMAL
42
River pair : BANKS
43
At the drop of ___ : AHAT
44
"Animal House" beanie sporters : PLEDGES
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Exclude : OMIT
51
Late singer Horne : LENA
52
F.D.R. power project: Abbr. : TVA
55
Blood-type abbr. : POS
56
60
Versatile vehicle, for short : UTE
61
For all to see : OVERT
62
Not quite round : OVATE
63
Place that's "up the river" : PEN
64
Hobbyist's knife brand : XACTO
65
Doesn't hoof it : RIDES
Down
1
Rolaids alternative : TUMS
2
Province of ancient Rome : ASIA
3
Like the proverbial beaver : BUSY
4
Tolkien beast : ORC
5
Shakespeare character who goes insane : OPHELIA
6
Having no intermission : ONEACT
7
"___ en Rose" (Edith Piaf song) : LAVIE
8
___-cone : SNO
9
Old French coin : ECU
10
Albany is its cap. : NYS
11
The movie "Wordplay," for one : INDIE
12
L.E.D. part : DIODE
13
High, pricewise : STEEP
18
"This ___ outrage!" : ISAN
22
"Shane" star : ALANLADD
23
Slow-cooked beef entree : POTROAST
24
Some flooring : TILE
25
Wroclaw's river : ODER
26
Neptune's realm : SEA
27
Ottoman Empire chief : AGHA
28
"No ___!" ("Easy!") : PROB
29
Hammer part : PEEN
32
North-of-the-border grid org. : CFL
33
Rat on the Mob : SING
34
Sommer in cinema : ELKE
35
Woman depicted in "The Birth of Old Glory" : ROSS
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Neighbor of Yemen : OMAN
38
Some are saturated : FATS
41
Letter after pi : RHO
42
Beat to death, so to speak : BELABOR
44
___ Vallarta, Mexico : PUERTO
45
Checkout annoyance : LINE
46
Like some toasters and children's books : POPUP
47
Overdo it onstage : EMOTE
48
"Christ is ___!" (Easter shout) : RISEN
49
Say without thinking : BLURT
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Fly-catching creature : TOAD
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Show of hands, e.g. : VOTE
54
Spy Aldrich : AMES
56
Symbol of slyness : FOX
57
Sch. founded by Thomas Jefferson : UVA
58
Gumshoe : TEC
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56, in old Rome : LVI

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

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