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New York Times, Thursday, October 14, 2010

Author:
Jim Hilger
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
61-Across : Factory output
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Jim Hilger

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {Q} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Hilger. Thursday freshness: 34%
Jim Horne notes:

This theme eluded me. The "and literally so" is key, here. As joon pahk explained on Wordplay, "STAY is literally "between the lines" MASON-DIXON and WHITESTAR, and READ is between the FREE-THROW line and a PRODUCTION line."

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F
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D
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L
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J
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M
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B
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N
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O
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M
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Y
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A
D
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O
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C
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A
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W
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H
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T
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K
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D
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A
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L
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M
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D
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R
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P
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I
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N
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B
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W
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H
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S
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H
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T
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L
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G
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D
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W
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F
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R
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R
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P
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D
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N
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V
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A
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P
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C
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E
D
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R
E
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T
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S
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O
W
© 2010, The New York Times10/14/10 ( No. 22,255 )
Across
1
Gangbusters : FEDS
5
Some Spiders, informally : ALFAS
10
Part of a frame : JAMB
14
Sweeping : EPIC
15
Petrified weeper of myth : NIOBE
16
Member of a pit crew? : OBOE
17
Border names : MASONDIXON
19
Big do : BASH
20
With 40-Across, coloring advice ... and literally so : STAY
21
Stink : ADO
23
Half a dance : CHA
24
Owner of the Titanic : WHITESTAR
28
Old ___ Bucket (Big Ten conference football prize) : OAKEN
30
Worrying comment from a surgeon : OOPS
31
Ultimate goal : ENDALL
33
1959 hit with the lyric "Did he ever return? No, he never returned" : MTA
34
Fictional villain whose given name is Julius : DRNO
36
Antique asset, often : PATINA
40
See 20- and 58-Across : BETWEENTHELINES
43
It might be rolled up on a farm : SLEEVE
44
Prefix with meter : HEXA
45
"And we'll ___ a cup o' kindness yet": Burns : TAK
46
Paying guest : LODGER
48
Head of Haiti : TETE
49
Live in the past? : DWELT
52
Unblockable shot : FREETHROW
55
The New Yorker cartoonist Chast : ROZ
56
"___ Es el Amor" (classic Spanish-language hit) : ESO
58
With 40-Across, infer something ... and literally so : READ
59
Skinned knee, say, to a tot : OWIE
61
Factory output : PRODUCTION
66
Start of an old boast : VENI
67
Malfunction : ACTUP
68
Frozen drink brand : ICEE
69
Elysium : EDEN
70
Appliance button : RESET
71
Warehouse : STOW
Down
1
Gender abbr. : FEM
2
Abbr. in many car ads : EPA
3
Go away : DISSIPATE
4
Big name in lawn care : SCOTTS
5
Some male dolls : ANDYS
6
2018 Super Bowl number : LII
7
Sexy babe : FOX
8
On : ABOARD
9
Thrill : SEND
10
Butcher, baker or candlestick maker : JOB
11
One way to be taken : ABACK
12
___ Arens, former Israeli defense minister : MOSHE
13
Irish writer Brendan : BEHAN
18
Rob Roy's refusal : NAE
22
"Color me impressed!" : OOLALA
24
Sonogram targets : WOMBS
25
Tourist locale : HOTEL
26
Clingmans Dome is its highest point: Abbr. : TENN
27
Round request : ANOTHER
29
Prefix with meter : ALTI
32
Zenith : APEX
34
Commit : DEVOTE
35
Thatching material : REED
37
Head off : INTERDICT
38
"Super-duper!" : NEATO
39
Crooked : ASKEW
41
Wisher's spot : WELL
42
"___ goes!" : HERE
47
Pressing concern for an astronaut? : GFORCE
48
Start of a clarification : THATIS
49
Was the designated one? : DROVE
50
Amazed : WOWED
51
Internet publication : EZINE
53
Hit the roof : ERUPT
54
Gumshoe : TEC
57
Box a bit : SPAR
60
A as in Austria : EIN
62
Some game enders, for short : OTS
63
Directly : DUE
64
Antipoverty agcy. : OEO
65
Mint : NEW

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

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