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New York Times, Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Author:
Oliver Hill
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Street weapon ... or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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Oliver Hill

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {FJQUXZ} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Hill. Tuesday freshness: 30%
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© 2010, The New York Times4/27/10 ( No. 22,085 )
Across
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Tiny : ATOMIC
7
End of a Shakespeare play : ACTV
11
MP3 holders : CDS
14
Artist Diego : RIVERA
15
One who talks only about himself, say : BORE
16
Egg layer : HEN
17
Genesis duo : CAINANDABEL
19
Historical time : ERA
20
Fish-fowl connector : NOR
21
It's found on a nightstand : BEDLAMP
23
___-Wan with the Force : OBI
26
Chum : PAL
28
"Enough!" : STOPIT
29
Certain mustache shape : HANDLEBAR
33
Not great, but not awful either : SOSO
34
TV part : SCREEN
35
Computer capacity, informally : MEGS
38
Means of staying toasty at night : HEATEDBLANKET
43
Yankee nickname starting in 2004 : AROD
44
Control, as expenses : REININ
46
Treated, as a sprained ankle : ICED
50
American symbol : BALDEAGLE
52
"Let's play!" : GAMEON
55
Major coll. fraternity : SAE
56
Sunburned : RED
57
Made possible : ENABLED
59
"___ moment!" ("Don't rush me!") : INA
61
French pronoun : TOI
62
Street weapon ... or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle : SWITCHBLADE
68
Under the weather : ILL
69
Bond girl Kurylenko : OLGA
70
Spotted feline : OCELOT
71
Profs.' helpers : TAS
72
Wall Street inits. : NYSE
73
Darcy's Pemberley, e.g., in "Pride and Prejudice" : ESTATE
Down
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Parabola, e.g. : ARC
2
___ Maria : TIA
3
Prefix with duct : OVI
4
Target audience of Details magazine : MEN
5
Country with a Guardian Council : IRAN
6
One use of a Swiss Army knife : CANOPENER
7
Lawyers' org. : ABA
8
Ty with batting titles : COBB
9
Sequoias, e.g. : TREES
10
Open grassland : VELDT
11
Penny-pincher, slangily : CHEAPO
12
Skin layer : DERMIS
13
Wake with a start : SNAPTO
18
Blah : DRAB
22
___ Lonely Boys (rock band) : LOS
23
Cries of surprise : OHS
24
"The Well-Tempered Clavier" composer : BACH
25
Memo starter : INRE
27
Greek L's : LAMBDAS
30
Org. monitoring narcotics smuggling : DEA
31
"___ thousand flowers bloom" : LETA
32
Bible study: Abbr. : REL
36
Tool you can lean on : GARDENHOE
37
Snick's partner : SNEE
39
When you entered this world: Abbr. : DOB
40
Seoul-based automaker : KIA
41
Hwy. planner : ENGR
42
10-point Q, e.g. : TILE
45
Actor Beatty : NED
46
"That's clear" : IGETIT
47
Kind of oil : CANOLA
48
Contacts via the Net : EMAILS
49
Girl with a coming-out party : DEB
51
Secular : LAIC
53
Johnny who used to cry "Come on down!" : OLSON
54
As of late : NEWLY
58
Shovels : DIGS
60
Rudimentary education : ABCS
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___ Bo : TAE
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Redo, in tennis : LET
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___ mode : ALA
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Half of a colon : DOT
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Summer on the Seine : ETE

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

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