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New York Times, Saturday, December 1, 2012

Author:
Joon Pahk
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
27-Across : The dark side
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
268/5/20081/8/20207
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
41234291
ScrabDebutFresh
1.6214572%
joon pahk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {JKQVX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 19 for Mr. pahk. Saturday freshness: 67%
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© 2012, The New York Times12/1/12 ( No. 23,034 )
Across
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What many a character in "The Iceman Cometh" expresses : PIPEDREAM
10
Part of a Spanish forest : ARBOL
15
1997 voice role for Meg Ryan : ANASTASIA
16
It's in front of a benched player : PIANO
17
It may be replaced by a dash : CURSEWORD
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Corny fare? : PONES
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Second-largest moon in the solar system : TITAN
20
Month before Tishri : ELUL
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Astronomer's calculation: Abbr. : GST
23
Lab directive? : STAY
24
Desert gullies : WADIS
26
Letter after Oscar : PAPA
27
The dark side : YIN
28
Happens to : BEFALLS
30
Italian almond cookies : AMARETTI
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Put more layers on : RECOAT
36
Tremendously : SOMETHINGFIERCE
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Where blackbirds may be baked? : INAPIE
39
Poses a bomb threat? : GOESDEEP
40
Emulated Tiresias : FORESAW
42
Realize : NET
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Texter's "bye now" : TTYL
44
All ___ (store sign) : SIZES
46
"Every saint has a ___": Oscar Wilde : PAST
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Magic, on scoreboards : ORL
51
Subject of King Deioces : MEDE
52
Eponymous container : DEWAR
53
National Voting Rights Museum locale : SELMA
55
Virginia v. Sebelius subject, in headlines : OBAMACARE
58
Accord : AMITY
59
Prominently demonstrated : WRITLARGE
60
Binary, in a way : YESNO
61
1999 Best Director winner : SAMMENDES
Down
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Accords : PACTS
2
Certain harpooner : INUIT
3
First section : PARTA
4
Locke work : ESSAY
5
Decahedron-shaped die, to a gamer : DTEN
6
Still green, or still red : RAW
7
That, in Toledo : ESO
8
Ran : AIRED
9
Fill-in-the-blank story : MADLIB
10
Washer, e.g.: Abbr. : APPL
11
2014 World Cup locale, for short : RIO
12
India's so-called "Garden City" : BANGALORE
13
It's beside the point : ONESPLACE
14
Got older and slower : LOSTASTEP
21
Paywall charges : USERFEES
24
Effortlessly : WITHEASE
25
Like con men? : ANTI
26
Betrayed anxiety, say : PACED
27
Beasts of the East : YETIS
29
"1234" singer, 2007 : FEIST
30
Seemingly expressing : ASIFTOSAY
31
Egg-laying mammal : MONOTREME
32
Belladonna lily : AMARYLLIS
33
What like charges do : REPEL
34
Dutch financial giant : ING
37
No longer to be found : GONE
41
___ walk (old house feature) : WIDOWS
45
"I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the ___ did it": Steven Wright : ZEBRA
46
Tough nut to crack : PECAN
47
Court determination : AWARD
48
Certain noncom : SARGE
49
They may be clear-cut : TREES
51
Bread spread : MAYO
52
Lowland : DALE
54
High point: Abbr. : MTN
56
Direct : AIM
57
"Hill Street Blues" production co. : MTM

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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