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New York Times, Saturday, June 25, 2016

Author:
Kameron Austin Collins
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
24-Down : Sneak peek sent to film critics
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Kameron Austin Collins

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FQWZ} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Collins. Saturday freshness: 55%
Jeff Chen notes:
A ton of great long entries in this 70-worder, Kameron converting nearly all his long slots into snazzy entries. My favorite region ... read more
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© 2016, The New York Times6/25/16 ( No. 24,336 )
Across
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"Cut the lip!" : DONTSASSME
11
Take in just the highlights, say : SKIM
15
Common wear under a lei : ALOHASHIRT
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Short pants? : TROU
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Rich, sweet-and-sour dessert : LEMONTORTE
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Thirsts : YENS
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Androids don't use it : IOS
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President during the Korean War : RHEE
21
Camp David event : SUMMIT
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European race place : LEMANS
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Guerrilla in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" : PILAR
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Flip : GOMAD
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Cough queller : CODEINE
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Title teen in a 2007 hit indie film : JUNO
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Literature Nobelist ___ Fo : DARIO
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Org. whose logo has a talon-gripped key : NSA
33
At an impasse : HUNG
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Point of computer technology? : PIXEL
35
Went on the fritz : DIED
36
Clears : OKS
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Pedestal support : SOCLE
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Good, to Galba : BONA
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Contents of many culled lists : TENBEST
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Program that turns out ensigns, for short : NROTC
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Green hero of book and film : SHREK
44
Places : STEADS
46
Attention getter : YOOHOO
48
Football rival of Rutgers : ARMY
49
Kiss ___ : CAM
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Fake-out : RUSE
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Tries to unload things quickly : HOLDSASALE
56
Resourceful people find new ones : USES
57
Actor whose first name is the title of a Best Picture he co-starred in, and whose last name is that film's director : OLIVERREED
58
Bother : PEST
59
Grave accents? : HEADSTONES
Down
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Co-writer of the Surrealist silent film "Un Chien Andalou," 1929 : DALI
2
With 28-Down, butterlike product of beef fat : OLEO
3
List in an actor's résumé, informally : NOMS
4
Short while? : THO
5
Italian border city : SANREMO
6
Cough cause : ASTHMA
7
Ones with wedge issues? : SHOEADDICTS
8
Prompt to pull over : SIREN
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Winner of NBC's "America's Toughest Bouncer" in 1980 : MRT
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Are, in Arles : ETES
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Hogtie : STYMIE
12
Detractors' epithet for the Putin regime : KREMLININC
13
Setting of the so-called "Seven Islands" of Greece : IONIANSEA
14
Hot words? : MUSTREAD
22
It's hair-raising : UPDO
23
Thirst : LONG
24
Sneak peek sent to film critics : SCREENERDVD
26
Band whose "Appetite for Destruction" was the best-selling debut album of all time : GUNSNROSES
28
See 2-Down : OIL
29
Rowdy joint : JUKEHOUSE
31
First name of 26-Down's frontman : AXL
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IHOP topping option : HOTSYRUP
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Municipal mainstays: Abbr. : POS
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The word "shies" in Morse code, entirely : DOTS
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Zaire's Mobutu Sese ___ : SEKO
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Tattoos and piercings : BODYART
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Command : BEHEST
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13th-century B.C. king with 10 namesakes : RAMSES
45
She played Adrian in "Rocky" and Connie in "The Godfather" : TALIA
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Cry of excitement : OHOH
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City largely destroyed in Operation Charnwood : CAEN
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One way to turn a vessel : ALEE
51
Rx things : MEDS
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Accented shout : OLE
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Packed letters? : SRO

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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