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New York Times, Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Author:
Allan E. Parrish
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
66-Across : Still on the shelf
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Allan E. Parrish

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FJQX} This is puzzle # 28 for Mr. Parrish. Wednesday freshness: 91%
Notepad: When this puzzle is done, read the eight circled letters clockwise, starting with square #24, to identify this puzzle's theme.
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© 2010, The New York Times11/24/10 ( No. 22,296 )
Across
1
Crept (along) : INCHED
7
Word with Orange or Peach : BOWL
11
Car that was the subject of a 1964 top 10 hit : GTO
14
Sesame seed-based sauce : TAHINI
15
Eye area : UVEA
16
Put out : IRK
17
Passes : ENACTS
18
20
Mid 12th-century year : MCL
21
Hosp. areas : ICUS
23
Cantankerous : CRABBY
24
___ Valley : SILICON
26
At the home of, to Henri : CHEZ
27
Hoist : ELEVATE
29
Infomercial host Gibbons : LEEZA
33
Co-star of Hanks in "Forrest Gump" : SINISE
35
Puts away : ICES
37
Cambodia's Lon ___ : NOL
38
Carry on : WAGE
39
Singer Studdard who won the second season of "American Idol" : RUBEN
41
Sunroof or moonroof alternative : TTOP
42
What rings reveal about a tree : AGE
43
Funeral fire : PYRE
44
"___ Be Stupid" (1985 Weird Al Yankovic album) : DARETO
46
Performer dubbed "The Great Dane" : BORGE
48
Like a next-door neighbor's lawn, or so it seems : GREENER
50
Just sitting around : IDLE
52
Tool : CATSPAW
55
W.W. II battle cry : BANZAI
58
Qxe5, e.g., in chess : MOVE
59
Way in Québec : RUE
60
62
Kind of kick : ONSIDE
64
Fish-fowl nexus : NOR
65
Old space-launched rocket : THOR
66
Still on the shelf : UNUSED
67
Envoy's bldg. : EMB
68
Gazpacho, e.g. : SOUP
69
Team with a big B on its helmets : RAVENS
Down
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Twosomes : ITEMS
2
Folk singer Griffith : NANCI
3
4
Hawaiian Punch alternative : HIC
5
Lures : ENTICES
6
7
Tampa Bay gridders, for short : BUCS
8
Lacto-___ vegetarian : OVO
9
Laura Bush's maiden name : WELCH
10
Symbol of victory : LAURELS
11
Andy with the #1 hit "Shadow Dancing" : GIBB
12
"Lou Grant" paper, with "the" : TRIB
13
Give a thumbs-up : OKAY
19
It may be hedged : MAZE
22
Mozart's "___ donna a quindici anni" : UNA
25
Tennis's Nastase : ILIE
26
Grammy-winning Winans : CECE
28
Italian waterway : TIBER
30
31
___ suit : ZOOT
32
Mighty Dog rival : ALPO
33
Q-tip, e.g. : SWAB
34
"I am not what I am" speaker : IAGO
36
40
Exhort : URGE
41
Dos follower : TRES
43
Nitpicking types : PEDANTS
45
Dish alternative : ANTENNA
47
City with the Great Sphinx : GIZA
49
Prefix with hazard : ECO
51
Certain printing process, briefly : LITHO
53
"September 1, 1939" poet : AUDEN
54
Does some yardwork : WEEDS
55
Ruin : BANE
56
Orbit site : ATOM
57
Workers' rights agcy. : NLRB
58
Letters on a car sticker : MSRP
61
Letters from a debtor : IOU
63
Aspen or Tahoe : SUV

Answer summary:
2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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