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New York Times, Wednesday, January 15, 1997

Author:
C. Currier
Editor:
Will Shortz
31-Across : Academy student
TotalDebutLatest
1811/25/19741/15/1997
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1416150
RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
11.54261240%
Chet Currier

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JKQXZ} This is puzzle # 18 for Mr. Currier. Wednesday freshness: 46%
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C
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A
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L
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© 1997, The New York Times1/15/97 ( No. 17,235 )
Across
1
Conspiracy : CABAL
6
Thundering : AROAR
11
Quipster : WAG
14
Diminish : ABATE
15
Stir up, in a way : GOOSE
16
Billy Joel's "___ to Extremes" : IGO
17
Limited group? : PARTNERSHIP
19
Oriental absolute : TAO
20
Kind of steel : STAINLESS
21
Astronaut in 1996 news : LUCID
23
Undercover operative : MOLE
24
"Frasier" character : DAPHNE
25
Communion dishes : PATENS
28
Like TV's Jaime Sommers : BIONIC
30
Nile bird : IBIS
31
Academy student : CADET
32
Prearrange : RIG
35
Suede feature : NAP
36
Straw hats : BOATERS
38
Part of a name on a menu : ALA
39
Surprising "gift" : ESP
40
This comes in as March goes out : ARIES
41
Quite some distance off : AFAR
42
Gofer's assignment : ERRAND
44
Joan of Arc, e.g. : MARTYR
46
Salon treatment : FACIAL
48
Figures : DATA
49
Gentle as ___ : ALAMB
50
Unexpected : STARTLING
55
Malaysian export : TIN
56
58
"The Island of the Day Before" author : ECO
59
Broadcast : AIRED
60
Bristles : SETAE
61
Consult : SEE
62
Unkempt : SEEDY
63
Discernment : TASTE
Down
1
Stadium souvenirs : CAPS
2
Blind as ___ : ABAT
3
Theda the vamp : BARA
4
Now and then : ATTIMES
5
Inaugural Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee : LENNON
6
Jibe : AGREE
7
Flagwoman? : ROSS
8
Circus cries : OOHS
9
Elvis's "A Fool Such ___" : ASI
10
Moves in the garden : REPLANTS
11
Sorcery : WITCHCRAFT
12
"Not ___!" : AGAIN
13
Former Philly mayor Wilson ___ : GOODE
18
Right-angle joints : ELLS
22
News inits. : UPI
24
Activist : DOER
25
Loblolly, e.g. : PINE
26
Down with: Fr. : ABAS
27
Harrison sobriquet : TIPPECANOE
28
Like some breath : BATED
29
Time to beware : IDES
31
"The Postman Always Rings Twice" author : CAIN
33
"Now ___ me down..." : ILAY
34
Actress who played Tootsie's tootsie : GARR
36
One whom Pilate pardoned : BARABBAS
37
Kind of history : ORAL
41
Uzbek lake : ARALSEA
43
Hoops target : RIM
44
Sportscaster Albert : MARV
45
Bear witness : ATTEST
46
Clotho and Lachesis : FATES
47
Author Walker : ALICE
48
To whom "my heart belongs" : DADDY
50
Resentful : SORE
51
Pigeon-___ : TOED
52
Political suffixes : ISTS
53
Spiffy : NEAT
54
Jubilation : GLEE
57
Golfer's concern : LIE

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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