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New York Times, Monday, January 10, 2011

Author:
James Tuttle
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
41-Down : French friend
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This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Tuttle. Monday freshness: 52%
Jim Horne notes:

This puzzle cleverly takes advantage of the shape of the circles used to highlight special squares. Elizabeth C. Gorski did something similar in 2009. So did Michael Shteyman with this innovative 2010 diagramless crossword: PDF, solution.

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© 2011, The New York Times1/10/11 ( No. 22,343 )
Across
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Many Eastern Europeans : SLAVS
6
Air passage : DUCT
10
Tiff : SPAT
14
"Good Will Hunting" star Matt : DAMON
15
Arthur with a Queens stadium named after him : ASHE
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Bread for a gyro : PITA
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BP gas brand : AMOCO
18
Wife of Jacob : LEAH
19
"___ See for Miles" (song by the Who) : ICAN
20
One place to follow the object named in the circled letters (reading left to right) : KARAOKESCREEN
23
A/C stat : BTU
24
Hannibal ___, vice president under Abraham Lincoln : HAMLIN
26
Golf peg : TEE
29
Artist whose 1999 hit "Smooth" was #1 for 12 weeks : SANTANA
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These, in Tours : CES
34
Zenith : ACME
36
Untruth : LIE
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Something with x and y axes : GRAPH
39
Roughen in cold weather : CHAP
40
___ Highway (route through Whitehorse, Yukon) : ALCAN
43
Scottish hillside : BRAE
44
Ancient Asia Minor region : IONIA
46
Medical care grp. : HMO
47
Buy's opposite : SELL
48
Sleuth, in slang : TEC
49
Computer game with virtual people : THESIMS
53
Be sick : AIL
54
Old-fashioned paper copies : DITTOS
56
Carrier to Copenhagen : SAS
58
Another place to follow the object named in the circled letters : PINGPONGTABLE
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E-mail filter's target : SPAM
66
Jacques of "Mon Oncle" : TATI
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Governed : RULED
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Top of the head : PATE
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Get ___ the ground floor : INON
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Had a role on stage : ACTED
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Wowed : AWED
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"___ On Down the Road" ("The Wiz" song) : EASE
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Like mosquitoes : PESKY
Down
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Pierre's state: Abbr. : SDAK
2
Buddhist monk : LAMA
3
Love, in 51-Down : AMOR
4
Words, informally : VOCAB
5
Haughty sorts : SNOOTS
6
Cowgirl Evans : DALE
7
Puts to work : USES
8
Dance related to the mambo : CHACHA
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Iran's capital : TEHRAN
10
Sales talk : SPIEL
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Outdoor eating place where you might lay a blanket : PICNICAREA
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One thing ___ time : ATA
13
Brown from the beach : TAN
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___ Lumpur, Malaysia : KUALA
22
Slate, e.g., briefly : EMAG
25
Katmandu native : NEPALI
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Unspoken, as an understanding : TACIT
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Reverberated : ECHOED
28
Release from slavery : EMANCIPATE
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Nothing : NIL
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Computer whizzes : TECHS
33
Turtle's "home" : SHELL
35
Prefix with center : EPI
38
Gridiron carriers: Abbr. : RBS
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French friend : AMI
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Note on a Chinese menu : NOMSG
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Abbr. before a name on top of a memo : ATTN
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Immobilize : HOGTIE
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Madrid's land, to natives : ESPANA
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Minor despot : SATRAP
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Measured by a stopwatch : TIMED
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Worcestershire ___ : SAUCE
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Siouan people : OTOS
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WXY, on a phone : NINE
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Sandwiches that are definitely not kosher, in brief : BLTS
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Onionlike soup ingredient : LEEK
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Spin zone? : EDDY
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Place to get a mudbath or massage : SPA
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Furry foot : PAW

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

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