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New York Times, Saturday, November 3, 2012

Author:
Milo Beckman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
17-Across : Real head-turners
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Milo Beckman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JK} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Beckman. Saturday freshness: 90%
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© 2012, The New York Times11/3/12 ( No. 23,006 )
Across
1
Sarcasm indicator : AIRQUOTES
10
Rating org. : MPAA
14
It may give you a final answer : CHEATSHEET
16
Baseball's Eddie who was nicknamed "The Walking Man" : YOST
17
Real head-turners : HOTTAMALES
18
Vino place : ASTI
19
Antagonistic org. in "The Simpsons Movie" : EPA
20
Speaker of the film line "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it" : HAL
21
Libertine's opposite : PURITAN
23
Spanish cardinal : SEIS
25
Fall sensation : NIP
27
Activity studied in onomastics : NAMING
28
Currently playing : ONNOW
30
Brandy or whiskey : AQUAVITAE
32
What a monkey may see or hear : NOEVIL
34
"Groundhog Day" director : RAMIS
35
Groups of three : TRINES
37
Nuclear ___ : WINTER
40
Discharge : EGEST
42
Season finale? : SERIES
44
Electrical room device : WATTMETER
48
Probed : DUGAT
49
Not likely to judge : AMORAL
50
First of 50: Abbr. : DEL
52
Jennifer of the BBC production "Pride and Prejudice" : EHLE
53
Capitol Hill sight : ROTUNDA
55
Young hunk, say : FOX
57
Cyrillic letter between kha and che : TSE
58
Desert mount : ARAB
59
Union in 1999 news : EXXONMOBIL
62
Kind of tower : CELL
63
Modify an order? : REORGANIZE
64
Forum being : ESSE
65
Is clearly #1 : DOMINATES
Down
1
Dean of the Truman cabinet : ACHESON
2
"That would be bad!" : IHOPENOT
3
Legal tender? : RETAINER
4
Chewable Mideast stimulant : QAT
5
Hexagon on a map : UTAH
6
13th-century empire founder : OSMAN
7
Muse of comedy : THALIA
8
Smoked delicacy : EEL
9
Slip through the cracks : SEEP
10
Elvis Costello's debut album : MYAIMISTRUE
11
Tacky yellow thing : POSTIT
12
Kazakhstan's capital : ASTANA
13
Not much, colorwise : ATINGE
15
Great swells : TSUNAMIS
22
Showing severe erosion, maybe : RAVINED
24
Coin featuring a hammer and sickle : SOVIETRUBLE
26
What may follow "NO" : PQR
29
Lead pilot's support : WINGMAN
31
A.F.L.-C.I.O. affiliate : UAW
33
First African-American golfer to play in the Masters : LEEELDER
36
Retired boomer : SST
38
Like some old gaming consoles : EIGHTBIT
39
Not reduced or enlarged : REALSIZE
41
"Better Off ___" (former ABC sitcom) : TED
43
Politico Michael and others : STEELES
44
Decorated pilot : WARACE
45
Ovid opus : AMORES
46
Wrecks : TOTALS
47
1990s party name : REFORM
51
Sound of silence? : LONGI
54
Reduced drastically : AXED
56
Cyclops, e.g., in comic books : XMAN
60
Unhelpful noughts-and-crosses line : XOO
61
___ mission : ONA

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

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