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New York Times, Monday, January 26, 1998

Author:
Eileen Lexau
Editor:
Will Shortz
60-Across : "Yes!"
TotalDebutLatest
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
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Eileen Lexau

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQWZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 25 for Ms. Lexau. Monday freshness: 36%
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S
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© 1998, The New York Times1/26/98 ( No. 17,611 )
Across
1
Put one's foot down : STOMP
6
Not stiff : LIMP
10
Without: Fr. : SANS
14
Prefix with anthropology : PALEO
15
Eye part : UVEA
16
"Here comes trouble!" : UHOH
17
Arctic or Indian, e.g. : OCEAN
18
Flees : LAMS
19
Noose material : ROPE
20
"Yes!" : IKIDYOUNOT
22
Ogled : EYED
23
Name for many a theater : LYCEUM
24
Totally absorbed (in) : RAPT
26
Bright and bouncy : PERKY
29
"Get ___ of yourself!" : AHOLD
33
Easter bloom : LILY
37
Managed : RAN
38
Often-welcomed part of the week : FRIDAY
39
Suffix with switch : EROO
40
Bara of the silents : THEDA
42
Lymph ___ : NODE
43
Interstellar cloud : NEBULA
45
Diamond ___ : LIL
46
Alum : GRAD
47
Southwestern home material : ADOBE
48
"___ of Two Cities" : ATALE
50
Atlantic Seaboard, with "the" : EAST
52
Egyptian's tongue : ARABIC
57
Quick : FAST
60
"Yes!" : ABSOLUTELY
63
Prez : EXEC
64
So long, in Soho : TATA
65
Utter fear : PANIC
66
Engineer's school : TECH
67
Western Indians : UTES
68
Court TV coverage : TRIAL
69
Nick and Nora's dog : ASTA
70
Attention-getter : PSST
71
Because : SINCE
Down
1
Mar : SPOIL
2
Tasteless : TACKY
3
Kind of acid : OLEIC
4
Civil War general : MEADE
5
Pay : PONYUP
6
One of a kind : LULU
7
"Terrible" czar : IVAN
8
Computer capacity : MEMORY
9
Ziti, e.g. : PASTA
10
"Yes!" : SURETHING
11
Hey there, at sea : AHOY
12
Nah : NOPE
13
Outbuilding : SHED
21
Mafioso's code of silence : OMERTA
25
Golfer's goal : PAR
27
Cheerleader's cry : RAH
28
Genuflected : KNELT
30
Aroma : ODOR
31
Terhune's "___ Dog" : LADA
32
Like Easter eggs : DYED
33
Songstress Horne : LENA
34
Enraged : IRED
35
Gray wolf : LOBO
36
"Yes!" : YOUBETCHA
38
Bit of finery : FALLAL
41
A day in Spain : DIA
44
Lowing herd's place : LEA
48
Baseball stat : ATBATS
49
Gives way to rage : ERUPTS
51
___ and took notice : SATUP
53
Early name in video games : ATARI
54
African republic : BENIN
55
Ending with sacro- : ILIAC
56
Rinse or dry, in a dishwasher : CYCLE
57
Goat cheese : FETA
58
Gives the heave-ho : AXES
59
Splinter group : SECT
61
Holy Fr. ladies : STES
62
Malt kiln : OAST

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

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