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New York Times, Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Author:
Pamela Klawitter
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
54-Across : More guileful
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Pamela Amick Klawitter

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JKQVXZ} This is puzzle # 6 for Ms. Klawitter. Wednesday freshness: 71%
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© 2013, The New York Times7/3/13 ( No. 23,248 )
Across
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Succulent lobster piece : TAIL
5
Still-in-development apps : BETAS
10
Take ___ view of : ADIM
14
City known as the Navel of Sicily : ENNA
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"Are we ___?" : ALONE
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Eat by candlelight : DINE
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Jim Beam and others : RYES
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Airport feature : TOWER
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Some airplane cargo : MAIL
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"Mamma Mia!" number : SOS
21
Vandyke locale : CHIN
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___-free (low-cal, maybe) : GUILT
24
Preserves on a farm : ENSILES
26
Sharpie feature : FELTTIP
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Witherspoon of "Walk the Line" : REESE
29
Grand display : ECLAT
31
Boat turner : OAR
32
Collar : NAB
34
Fifth-century sacker : HUN
35
Word before a sale price : ONLY
36
Local convenience ... or a hint to the words in the circled squares : CORNERSTORE
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Blind as ___ : ABAT
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"Call 'em"/"see 'em" connection : ASI
42
"Alphabet series" author Grafton : SUE
43
Preposition in many Grafton titles : FOR
44
Risking a D.U.I., say : TIPSY
46
Neighbor of Fiji : TONGA
50
Easily passes : BLOWSBY
52
"Last Kiss" or "Tell Laura I Love Her" : SADSONG
54
More guileful : SLIER
55
Facetious "I see" : AHSO
56
Former chess champion Mikhail : TAL
57
Charlie who said "Waiting for tomorrow waste of today" : CHAN
58
Minuscule amounts : IOTAS
60
Part of a guitarist's pedalboard : WAWA
61
Daughter of Hägar the Horrible : HONI
62
Figurative use of a word : TROPE
63
"Believe ___ Not!" : ITOR
64
25-Down, nonstandardly : AINT
65
Start of a toast : HERES
66
Pool item? : GENE
Down
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More to the point : TERSER
2
"Who wants to volunteer?" : ANYONE
3
Actually existing : INESSE
4
___ Palmas : LAS
5
Come clean? : BATHE
6
Plaza girl of fiction : ELOISE
7
Ending with George or James : TOWN
8
Hydrocarbon suffix : ANE
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March V.I.P.'s? : SERGEANTS
10
Fess up (to) : ADMIT
11
Landline sound : DIALTONE
12
Handkerchief embroidery : INITIAL
13
Sitcom cook who said "Stow it!" : MEL
21
Like crystal : CLEAR
23
Final: Abbr. : ULT
25
"This ___ a drill!" : ISNOT
26
Winter bugs : FLUS
27
Apply leverage to : PRY
30
Rock in Hollywood : CHRIS
33
Group with two apostrophes in its name : BNAIBRITH
35
Cookies that flavor some ice cream : OREOS
36
British poet laureate Duffy : CAROLANN
37
Spot : ESPY
38
Go one better than : OUTDO
39
B-52's home: Abbr. : AFB
40
Moscow ballet company : BOLSHOI
44
J. Alfred Prufrock creator's monogram : TSE
45
What a slingshot or wishbone has : YSHAPE
47
Jot down : NOTATE
48
Chew, as a steak bone : GNAWON
49
Shining brightly : AGLARE
51
Take home the top prize : WINIT
53
Ninnies : ASSES
55
Suffix with origin or comment : ATOR
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When doubled, a dance : CHA
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Stuff to dig up : ORE
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Part of many a Halloween costume : WIG

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

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