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New York Times, Thursday, August 16, 2012

Author:
Ethan Cooper
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
9-Down : Late-night talk show feature
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
155/17/19999/10/20192
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1442400
RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.568632%
Ethan Cooper

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Cooper. Thursday freshness: 72%
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© 2012, The New York Times8/16/12 ( No. 22,927 )
Across
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Swiss ___ : CHARD
6
Derive (from) : STEM
10
Multimillion-selling band from Australia : ACDC
14
Sacré-___ (Paris landmark) : COEUR
15
Syringe : HYPO
16
Actress ___ Flynn Boyle : LARA
17
Aetna competitor : CIGNA
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Blood-sharing? : AKIN
19
Bloodhound's lead : ODOR
20
Prison guard system? : ESCAPECONTROL
23
Level of achievement : STATURE
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These days : LATELY
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Healthful cooking option : CANOLA
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"Let's see that again in ___" : SLOMO
29
D.O.J. heads : AGS
30
Hipster Capitol Hill worker after collapsing? : ALTPAGEDOWN
35
Sighs over, say : RUES
37
"... might ___ quietus make": Hamlet : HIS
38
Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show" : OPIE
39
Bill at the "Star Wars" cantina? : SPACEBARTAB
44
E-mail suffix once required to join Facebook : EDU
45
Make grand statements : ORATE
46
Klemperer of "Hogan's Heroes" : WERNER
48
Company that introduced coin-slide washers in laundromats : MAYTAG
51
Gives a thumbs-down : VOTESNO
52
Restyle a bit of a D.C. hockey player's hair? : SHIFTCAPSLOCK
55
Not just a talker : DOER
56
Taylor of "Say Anything ..." : LILI
57
Click or clack : NOISE
60
Heraldic band : ORLE
61
"That's cool, man" : IDIG
62
Unbeatable : IDEAL
63
Singer with the 1986 #1 album "Promise" : SADE
64
It's not meant to be used on nails : PEEN
65
Quick to flip : TESTY
Down
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New Deal work program, for short : CCC
2
___ polloi : HOI
3
Cyclades setting : AEGEANSEA
4
Totals : RUNSTO
5
Speaker of the line "Listen to them - the children of the night" : DRACULA
6
Outline : SHAPE
7
Preschooler : TYKE
8
More awesome than awesome : EPIC
9
Late-night talk show feature : MONOLOG
10
Much work ahead : ALOTTODO
11
Core members : CADRE
12
Mouth watering? : DROOL
13
Nickelodeon title girl : CARLY
21
Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL
22
Kind of recognition : NAME
23
Chicken pox result, often : SCARS
24
Go back before proceeding : TAGUP
27
Skyline feature : SPIRE
28
In the cellar : LAST
31
All ___ : THAT
32
Like a policy allowing unfettered air traffic : OPENSKIES
33
Ream : WIDEN
34
Prefix with -pathy : NEURO
36
Unpunished : SCOTFREE
40
Quod ___ faciendum : ERAT
41
Twist-tie alternative : BAGCLIP
42
Not reporting, maybe : AWOL
43
"You can be sure" : BETONIT
47
Alter, as a program : RECODE
48
Windows forerunner : MSDOS
49
Now, in Nicaragua : AHORA
50
Investor's info : YIELD
51
Two-finger salute : VSIGN
53
Gofer : AIDE
54
"Swan Lake" move : PLIE
58
Didn't sell : SAT
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England's Isle of ___ : ELY

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

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