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New York Times, Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Author:
Peter A. Collins
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
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Peter A. Collins

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 35 Missing: {FJQ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 53 for Mr. Collins. Tuesday freshness: 80%
Jim Horne notes:

In an unusual feat of construction, today's theme-revealer at 34-Down intersects three of the themed entries.

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I
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L
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O
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D
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L
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M
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H
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K
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D
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G
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R
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O
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M
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R
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C
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R
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R
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T
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N
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P
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© 2011, The New York Times9/27/11 ( No. 22,603 )
Across
1
Medicine holder : VIAL
5
Walk ungracefully : TODDLE
11
Nick, say : MAR
14
Rights advocacy grp. : ACLU
15
This point forward : HEREON
16
Bon ___ : AMI
17
*Area in front of a coop : CHICKENYARD
19
Grand Canyon part : RIM
20
Cornfield call : CAW
21
Sea eagle : ERN
22
Some Saturns : IONS
23
*Modern school memento : DIGITALYEARBOOK
28
Beatle lover : ONO
29
More clever : SLIER
30
Wee, informally : EENSY
31
Baseball's Blue Moon : ODOM
33
O.R. figures : RNS
34
One working with checks and balances, for short : CPA
35
*Braided floor covering : ROPERUG
37
*More than enough : TOOMANY
41
"___ the season" : TIS
42
Play about Capote : TRU
43
Bosnian, e.g. : SLAV
44
Larklike bird : PIPIT
47
Ore-Ida parent company : HEINZ
49
Language suffix : ESE
50
*Elemental parts of human nature : ANIMALINSTINCTS
53
Posh : LUXE
54
Letter from Homer? : ETA
55
___ v. Wade : ROE
56
Former White House press secretary Fleischer : ARI
57
*Discover to be fibbing : CATCHINALIE
62
Bee follower : CEE
63
Opposed (to) : AVERSE
64
Hobbling, say : LAME
65
Actors Burns and Wynn : EDS
66
Guardian Angels' toppers : BERETS
67
Event with booths : EXPO
Down
1
Hoover or Oreck, for short : VAC
2
German "I" : ICH
3
Noted 1964 convert to Islam : ALI
4
Susan of soaps : LUCCI
5
Character in a Beatles song : THEWALRUS
6
Wine: Prefix : OEN
7
They may be hard to find at a tearjerker : DRYEYES
8
More loved : DEARER
9
"___ Doone" : LORNA
10
Knock off : END
11
Strand : MAROON
12
Some acids : AMINOS
13
Composer ___-Korsakov : RIMSKY
18
Kit ___ (chocolate bars) : KATS
22
Metal supports in skyscrapers : IBEAMS
23
Opportunity, metaphorically : DOOR
24
___-European : INDO
25
Sticky stuff : GOOP
26
When repeated, a noted panda : LING
27
Takeback, briefly : REPO
32
Break from responsibilities, informally : METIME
34
Sovereign lands ... or what are hidden in the answers to the six starred clues : COUNTRIES
36
"Lovely" Beatles girl : RITA
37
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Speaker : TRIS
38
Actor Baldwin : ALEC
39
Creator of the G.O.P. elephant : NAST
40
The "Y" in Y.S.L. : YVES
42
Like a small farm, perhaps : TENACRE
44
France's Élysée, for one : PALACE
45
Hardened : INURED
46
Fairies : PIXIES
47
One getting lots of doubles and home runs, say : HITTER
48
The Jewish people : ZION
51
It might be taken by a sailor : LEAVE
52
Author Zora ___ Hurston : NEALE
57
Request inside (or outside?) a wine bar : CAB
58
Pres. when NATO was formed : HST
59
Loosey-goosey : LAX
60
Mischief-maker : IMP
61
Fair-hiring inits. : EEO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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