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New York Times, Friday, November 11, 2011

Author:
Alex Vratsanos
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
26-Across : Bygone espionage org.
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Alex Vratsanos

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQVX} Spans: 6, (2 double stacks) Grid is asymmetric. Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Vratsanos. Friday freshness: 22%
Jim Horne notes:

This grid underwent significant changes during the editing process. Mr. Vratsanos was kind enough to allow me to post the original submission so you can see the changes. Very interesting. Even the grid shape changed.

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© 2011, The New York Times11/11/11 ( No. 22,648 )
Across
1
___ scan : MRI
4
Media inits. since 1927 : BBC
7
Music genre of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones : SKA
10
Solid rock center? : ASA
13
It's shown on a topographical map : CONTOUR
15
Disheveled : UNKEMPT
17
Family members : MAFIOSI
18
Parents, e.g. : REARERS
19
Prefix with -matic : IDIO
20
Google search object : IMAGE
22
First name in auto racing : ARIE
23
Cousin ___ : ITT
24
"Well done!" : NICE
25
Actress Merrill : DINA
26
Bygone espionage org. : OSS
28
Biology div. : ENTOM
30
Cry of repugnance : ICK
31
Morales of "Gun Hill Road" : ESAI
32
Hot spot : SAUNA
33
First name in auto racing : CALE
35
Philadelphia landmark : MINT
36
Denigrates, in British slang : SLAGS
37
Over : ANEW
38
Reverse : UNDO
39
Things gotten with a credit card, often : MILES
40
Get beat : TIRE
41
Atlanta sch. with 30,000+ students : GSU
42
Publication that clicks with readers? : EZINE
43
"Star Trek" extra: Abbr. : ENS
44
Carrie Chapman ___, founder of the League of Women Voters : CATT
45
Buttocks : NATES
46
1974 Gould/Sutherland spoof : SPYS
48
W.W. II rationing org. : OPA
49
Norse equivalent of Mars : TYR
50
Death on the Nile cause? : ASP
51
Female charmer of myth : LORELEI
55
Montana neighbor : ALBERTA
59
Rockefeller Center is built in it : ARTDECO
60
More rich, as soil : LOAMIER
61
Meeting : SESSION
62
Breaks : SCHISMS
Down
1
Year the first Rose Bowl was played : MCMII
2
1940 Crosby/Lamour/Hope comedy : ROADTOSINGAPORE
3
Irregularly : INFITSANDSTARTS
4
It might make you jump : BOO
5
Rotary Club members : BUSINESSMEN
6
Outlawing : CRIMINALIZATION
7
Medical bigwigs : SURGEONGENERALS
8
Place for a pad : KNEE
9
Wanted letters? : AKA
10
Carnegie Hall debut of 1928, with "An" : AMERICANINPARIS
11
Building safety feature : SPRINKLERSYSTEM
12
Befuddled : ATSEA
14
Familia member : TIO
16
Wipes out : ERADICATES
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It's not a dream : ACTUALITY
27
Recuse oneself from, say : SITOUT
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Some services : MASSES
31
Layer of green eggs : EMU
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"Concentration" pronoun : EWE
44
Flat ones are not good : COLAS
47
Wrangles (with) : SPARS
52
Glamour types, for short : EDS
53
Gift on a string : LEI
54
Prefix with car : ECO
56
___ cit. (footnote abbr.) : LOC
57
Dickensian cry : BAH
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Record label inits. : EMI

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

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