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New York Times, Monday, February 20, 2012

Author:
Samuel A. Donaldson
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
52-Across : February occasion, some of whose honorees can be found in the answers to the five starred clues
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241.6324669%
Samuel A. Donaldson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Donaldson. Monday freshness: 81%
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© 2012, The New York Times2/20/12 ( No. 22,749 )
Across
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Patriot Allen with the Green Mountain Boys : ETHAN
6
Things "bursting in air" : BOMBS
11
With 17-Across, value of some opinions : TWO
14
Pageant headgear : TIARA
15
Sans-serif typeface : ARIAL
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Many, many years : EON
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See 11-Across : CENTS
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*Some reddish-orange caviar : SALMONROE
20
Work unit : ERG
21
Silent performer : MIME
22
Renders null : VOIDS
23
*Major road : TRAFFICARTERY
27
Steve of "The Office" : CARELL
28
Prisoner : INMATE
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*Nancy Pelosi was the first person ever to have this title in Congress : MADAMSPEAKER
35
Hypothetical cases : IFS
38
French king : ROI
39
Driver's licenses and such, in brief : IDS
40
*Parliamentary procedure : RULESOFORDER
47
Big supermarket chain : KROGER
48
See 26-Down : ONEILL
52
February occasion, some of whose honorees can be found in the answers to the five starred clues : PRESIDENTSDAY
56
Four straight wins to start the World Series, e.g. : SWEEP
58
Tidy : NEAT
59
Ash holder : URN
60
*Really hunger for : LUSTAFTER
62
Had title to : OWNED
64
Buckeyes' sch. : OSU
65
Snoozed : SLEPT
66
World, in Italian : MONDO
67
Mind-reading skill, for short : ESP
68
Part of the body above the waist : TORSO
69
Show of overwhelming love : SWOON
Down
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"And so on, and so on" : ETCETC
2
___ del Fuego : TIERRA
3
Where airplanes are repaired : HANGAR
4
"A work of ___ is a confession": Camus : ART
5
"If I Ruled the World" rapper : NAS
6
Fundamental : BASIC
7
Commercial suffix akin to "à go-go" : ORAMA
8
Distance runner : MILER
9
Blast sound : BAM
10
Ljubljana dweller : SLOVENE
11
Dish marinated in sweetened soy sauce : TERIYAKI
12
Lumber : WOOD
13
Low bills : ONES
19
"___ Rae" (Sally Field film) : NORMA
21
Not very spicy : MILD
24
Not masc. : FEM
25
State south of Ga. : FLA
26
With 48-Across, leader of the House of Representatives, 1977-87 : TIP
29
Turner who founded CNN : TED
30
Hesitant sounds : ERS
32
Dog sound : ARF
33
Cow sound : MOO
34
Francis Drake, Isaac Newton or Mix-a-Lot : SIR
35
Needle : IRK
36
PETA target : FUR
37
What a ramp does : SLOPESUP
41
White-feathered wader : EGRET
42
Purposely ignore : SEEPAST
43
Surgery sites, for short : ORS
44
Word before know and care : DONT
45
Suffix with differ : ENT
46
Hi-___ monitor : RES
49
"No idea" : IDUNNO
50
Texas city on the Rio Grande : LAREDO
51
The "L" of L.B.J. : LYNDON
53
Bury : INTER
54
Areas explored by submarines : DEEPS
55
Keep one's ___ the ground : EARTO
56
___ gin fizz : SLOE
57
Scaredy-cat : WUSS
61
___-Jo ('88 Olympics track star) : FLO
62
Meditation sounds : OMS
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"Holy moly!" : WOW

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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