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New York Times, Friday, October 18, 1996

Author:
M. Gaffney
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Across : Rathskeller items
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
587/24/19949/6/20001
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.6152461%
Matt Gaffney

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {BJZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 28 for Mr. Gaffney. Friday freshness: 9%
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© 1996, The New York Times10/18/96 ( No. 17,146 )
Across
1
Seven-time Wimbledon champ : STEFFIGRAF
11
Dam up : STEM
15
"Greetings!" : HELLOTHERE
16
Off : AWAY
17
"The Breakfast Club" actress : ALLYSHEEDY
18
Emperor in a Mozart opera : TITO
19
Microscopic : WEE
20
Evening, in Avila : TARDE
21
Beat by a tiny bit : NIP
22
Spot : SPECK
24
Greenness : NAIVETE
28
Kurosawa characters : SAMURAIS
31
Foe of 26-Down : IRAN
32
Writer Waugh : ALEC
33
Capt.'s heading : NNW
34
Mild oath : DANGIT
37
Dating term : CIRCA
39
Word in many cathedral names : SAN
41
Andean city : QUITO
42
Rathskeller items : STEINS
44
"Huh-uh" : NAH
46
Over : ANEW
47
Fascinated by : INTO
48
Derisive ones : SNORTERS
50
Court stat : ASSISTS
53
Thoroughly enjoyed : ATEUP
54
"Macarena" singers Los ___ Rio : DEL
55
Bracing : TONIC
57
Bar work : LAW
60
Term terminator : EXAM
62
Run up to the Hill? : SENATERACE
64
World's seventh-longest river : LENA
65
"Cimarron" co-star, 1931 : IRENEDUNNE
66
Christian Science founder : EDDY
67
It's on a roll : SESAMESEED
Down
1
"Heartbreak House" playwright : SHAW
2
Conference lead-in : TELE
3
Part of Canada's Arctic Archipelago : ELLESMEREISLAND
4
The birds and the bees do it : FLY
5
Promote : FOSTER
6
Penelope, for one : ITHACAN
7
Deli supply : GHERKINS
8
Oliver of "Oliver!" : REED
9
"As You Like It" forest : ARDEN
10
Whimsically strange : FEY
11
Remained idle : SAT
12
Piper PA-31P Navajo, e.g. : TWINENGINEPLANE
13
Weird Al Yankovic parody : EATIT
14
Shortsighted person : MYOPE
23
Contemporary of Leoncavallo : PUCCINI
25
Relief : AID
26
Foe of 31-Across : IRAQ
27
Republic formerly called New Hebrides : VANUATU
28
Body cavities : SACS
29
Got down : ALIT
30
Trumpeters, e.g. : SWANS
35
Road to Rome : ITER
36
Lugs : TOWS
38
Red army members? : ANTS
40
"Hey Jude" chorus : NANANANA
43
Sir Toby Belch, e.g. : SOT
45
Quite the dish or hunk : HOTITEM
49
Hairlines do it : RECEDE
50
Rochester's ward : ADELE
51
Part of a sch. health class : SEXED
52
Unit of cordwood : STERE
56
Kind of column : ONES
58
Tetracycline target : ACNE
59
Herbicide target : WEED
61
New Jersey's Cape ___ : MAY
62
Nickname in the family : SIS
63
Toys ___ : RUS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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