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New York Times, Monday, March 19, 2012

Author:
Jeremy Horwitz
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
20-Across : Academy Award winner for playing 46-Across
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Jeremy Horwitz

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQX} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Horwitz. Monday freshness: 50%
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© 2012, The New York Times3/19/12 ( No. 22,777 )
Across
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From Athens, say : GREEK
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Sharp product from Sharp : HDTV
10
Labyrinth : MAZE
14
"___ Vice" : MIAMI
15
Days long past : YORE
16
___ contraceptive : ORAL
17
Image on an Indian pole : TOTEM
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Destitute : POOR
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Redding who sang "The Dock of the Bay" : OTIS
20
Academy Award winner for playing 46-Across : ROBERTDENIRO
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Backbone : SPINE
25
Let out, as a fishing line : UNREEL
26
Academy Award winner for playing 46-Across : MARLONBRANDO
30
"Can't Get It Out of My Head" rock grp. : ELO
31
Clear part of blood : SERUM
32
Either the first or last vowel sound in "Alaska" : SCHWA
36
Stratford-upon-___ : AVON
38
Africa's northernmost capital : TUNIS
40
Actress Madeline of "Blazing Saddles" : KAHN
41
Lite : LOFAT
43
Guadalajara girls : NINAS
45
Pedantic quibble : NIT
46
Academy Award-winning role for both 20- and 26-Across : VITOCORLEONE
49
Vie (for) : STRIVE
52
Eagle's home : AERIE
53
Academy Award-winning film released in March 1972 : THEGODFATHER
57
___ Major (constellation) : URSA
58
Actress Skye of "Say Anything ..." : IONE
59
Place for gold to be stored : VAULT
63
Encounter : MEET
64
Large coffee holders : URNS
65
Follow : ENSUE
66
Rose of the diamond : PETE
67
Butcher's stock : MEAT
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Wild West transport : STAGE
Down
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World clock std. : GMT
2
___ de Janeiro : RIO
3
Consume : EAT
4
Lagasse in the kitchen : EMERIL
5
Japanese robes : KIMONOS
6
Ballyhoo : HYPE
7
"Let's Make a Deal" choice : DOOR
8
Gait not as fast as a canter : TROT
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W.W. I's longest battle : VERDUN
10
Object retrieved on an Apollo mission : MOONROCK
11
Clarinetist Shaw : ARTIE
12
Congo, from 1971 to 1997 : ZAIRE
13
Spanish-language newspaper that brings "light" to its readers : ELSOL
21
Author Stephen Vincent ___ : BENET
22
Termini : ENDS
23
Blast from the side of a warship : SALVO
24
Homework problem in geometry : PROOF
26
Brunch or dinner : MEAL
27
Sacha Baron Cohen alter ego : BRUNO
28
Ancient kind of alphabet : RUNIC
29
Protein-building acid : AMINO
33
Vietnam's capital : HANOI
34
Complain annoyingly : WHINE
35
Initial stake : ANTE
37
Steer : NAVIGATE
39
Politico Palin : SARAH
42
What may give pause to couch potatoes? : TIVO
44
What tank tops lack : SLEEVES
47
Ho-humness : TEDIUM
48
Straying : ERRANT
49
Tree remnant : STUMP
50
Number of little pigs or blind mice : THREE
51
Put back to zero, say : RESET
54
Golfer's cry : FORE
55
"___ and the King of Siam" : ANNA
56
Examination : TEST
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Anytown, ___ : USA
61
Schlep : LUG
62
Links peg : TEE

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

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