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New York Times, Thursday, December 24, 2009

Author:
Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
53-Down : Midnight alarm giver
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Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 184 for Ms. Salomon. Thursday freshness: 63%
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© 2009, The New York Times12/24/9 ( No. 21,961 )
Across
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Light in a bad way : TORCH
6
Emmy-winning character actor James : COCO
10
In : AMID
14
Novelist Calvino : ITALO
15
Spanish pot : OLLA
16
Astronomer's sighting : NOVA
17
In perpetuity : FOREVERANDEVER
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Twin : DUAL
20
Sense : FEEL
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Locks : HAIR
22
Edible tubes : PENNE
23
Concertedly : ASONE
25
Monopoly token : HAT
26
How the obvious may be disguised : THINLY
29
Fight night highlight : MAINEVENT
33
Green, to Goya : VERDE
34
Go "pfffft" : STALL
36
Dakota Indian : REE
37
35mm camera type : SLR
38
Fate-tempting motorcyclist : EVELKNIEVEL
40
Suffolk female : EWE
41
One in the charge of un instituteur : ELEVE
42
Sources of filets mignons : LOINS
43
"Ghosts" playwright : IBSEN
45
Deluge : TORRENT
47
With a saucy style : PERTLY
48
French possessive : SES
49
Ho-hum : BLASE
51
Big pictures : EPICS
53
Belly laugh : ROAR
54
Monopoly token : SHOE
58
Tony winner Neuwirth : BEBE
59
Pan's place : NEVERNEVERLAND
61
Has a blast : REVELS
62
Tough trip : TREK
63
Opposite of hindered : AIDED
64
Olympian ___ (classical works) : ODES
65
Delilah portrayer Lamarr : HEDY
66
Relish : ENJOY
Down
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Bit of a dustup : TIFF
2
Plains Indian : OTOE
3
Red inside : RARE
4
Cavaliers' home : CLEVELAND
5
26-Down adjustment: Abbr. : HOR
6
Big name in late-night : CONAN
7
Any song on a 78 : OLDIE
8
Sharp : CLEVER
9
It may be part of a bank : OAR
10
Like vicuñas : ANDEAN
11
It was conquered in 1953 : MOUNTEVEREST
12
Novelist Turgenev : IVAN
13
Cartoon chipmunk : DALE
18
Ship-to-ship call : AHOY
22
2008 World Series champs : PHILLIES
24
Like tank tops : SLEEVELESS
26
Tube : TVSET
27
"Is anybody listening ...?" : HELLO
28
Impossible to change : IRREVERSIBLE
29
"___ oui!" : MAIS
30
Tylenol competitor : ALEVE
31
Flight support : NEWEL
32
Itsy-bitsy : TEENY
34
"The Tonight Show" piece : SKIT
35
Onetime C&W channel : TNN
39
Chaney of "The Wolf Man" : LON
44
"The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" novelist : BRESLIN
46
Judge's announcement : RECESS
47
Made without milk or meat : PAREVE
49
Feeling ho-hum : BORED
50
Squat's opposite : LANKY
51
River that ends in Tarragona : EBRO
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Put out : PEEVED
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Midnight alarm giver : REVERE
55
Pilgrimage to Mecca : HADJ
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"___'Clock Jump" (Basie hit) : ONEO
57
Whirling water : EDDY
59
Ultimate : NTH
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Scottish explorer of the Arctic : RAE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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