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New York Times, Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Author:
Mike Buckley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
53-Across : Monarchy in the South Pacific
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Mike Buckley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Buckley. Tuesday freshness: 86%
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© 2012, The New York Times2/7/12 ( No. 22,736 )
Across
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"That's lame, dude" : BOGUS
6
___ Minor : ASIA
10
Letters starting an address : HTTP
14
___ Heep : URIAH
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Staffs : MANS
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Indiana's smallest county or the river it touches : OHIO
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Imagination, metaphorically : MIRROROFTHEMIND
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Part of a nuclear reactor : ROD
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Zellweger of "Miss Potter" : RENEE
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Perform on "Glee," perhaps : SING
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Featuring top players : ALLSTAR
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Gets special attention : RATES
27
Sneak a look : PEEK
28
Investigator of family problems, say : CASEWORKER
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Suffix with fool : ISH
34
League: Abbr. : ASSN
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"Here ___ Again" (1987 #1 hit) : IGO
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Hispaniola's western half : HAITI
39
Remove the insides from : GUT
40
Alternatively : IFNOT
42
Article in Austria : EIN
43
Like the food Jack Sprat eats : LEAN
45
Suffix with confident : IAL
46
It's seen in shop windows : PLATEGLASS
49
Opposite of sans : AVEC
53
Monarchy in the South Pacific : TONGA
54
Yellowhammer State : ALABAMA
56
Very dry, as Champagne : BRUT
57
Three-masted sailing ship : XEBEC
59
Subtraction game : NIM
60
One who's favorably looked upon : FAIRHAIREDCHILD
63
Fairy tale start : ONCE
64
Dullea of "2001: A Space Odyssey" : KEIR
65
Funny Fields : TOTIE
66
Harmonica part : REED
67
Quotes, as a price : ASKS
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Observe secretly : SPYON
Down
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Trumped-up charge : BUMRAP
2
Orange-and-black bird : ORIOLE
3
Waist reduction aid : GIRDLE
4
Nasser's fed. : UAR
5
There has been one with every Pixar film since 1998 : SHORT
6
King of gods, in Egyptian myth : AMONRA
7
Burglary target : SAFE
8
Hobby : INTEREST
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Pompeii's downfall? : ASH
10
More comfy : HOMIER
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What an easily offended person has : THINSKIN
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High tone? : TING
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Peas' keeper? : POD
18
Be rude at the dinner table, in a way : REACH
19
Its Internet addresses end in .ee : ESTONIA
24
Theater playlet : SKIT
26
Sympathetic syllables : AWS
29
Finnish hot spot : SAUNA
30
One of a Freudian trio : EGO
31
Balderdash : ROT
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Start of every hour? : SILENTH
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Up on things, in the '40s : HEP
37
Not feel so good : AIL
38
Very quickly : INATRICE
39
Andromeda and others : GALAXIES
41
Spare tire material : FLAB
44
Humpty Dumpty, e.g. : EGG
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Marooned, in a way : ISLED
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Took the show on the road : TOURED
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Duelers' swords : SABERS
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Unappealing personal trait ... or a word that can precede the start of 17-, 28-, 46- or 60-Across : VANITY
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Estevez of "The Breakfast Club" : EMILIO
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City across the Delaware River from Philadelphia : CAMDEN
55
Bank nos. : ACCTS
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Source of ruin : BANE
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Composer Satie : ERIK
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Supporting : FOR
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Alias letters : AKA
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Move like a bunny : HOP

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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