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New York Times, Monday, October 2, 1995

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Will Shortz
58-Across : Bulgaria's capital
TotalDebutLatest
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
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Joy L. Wouk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 129 for Ms. Wouk. Monday freshness: 82%
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© 1995, The New York Times10/2/95 ( No. 16,764 )
Across
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Actor Guinness : ALEC
5
Philatelist's book : ALBUM
10
Cure : HEAL
14
Impetuous : RASH
15
Monte ___ : CARLO
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"Rule, Britannia" composer : ARNE
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Old-fashioned greeting : TOPOFTHEMORNING
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Brings up, as young : REARS
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Dancer de Mille : AGNES
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Located : SITED
25
Item in 5 Across : STAMP
28
Release, as the end of a chain : UNHOOK
30
Annual golf tournament, with "the" : MASTERS
35
Parisian summer : ETE
36
Iterate : REPEAT
39
Inter ___ : ALIA
40
1975 Pacino film : DOGDAYAFTERNOON
43
Needle case : ETUI
44
Spy magazine feature : SATIRE
45
Suffix with Brooklyn or Manhattan : ITE
46
Dreamer: Fr. : SONGEUR
48
Equilibriums : STASES
50
Cathedral parts : APSES
53
Manage to avoid : AVERT
54
"Damn Yankees" composer : ADLER
58
Bulgaria's capital : SOFIA
60
"The Magic Flute" role with "the" : QUEENOFTHENIGHT
66
Stalin's land : USSR
67
"What ___!" ("That's funny!") : AHOOT
68
Zhivago's love : LARA
69
J.D. holder : ATTY
70
Café cup : TASSE
71
Gush : SPEW
Down
1
Mr. Linkletter : ART
2
Vientiane native : LAO
3
Telepathy : ESP
4
Dance: Prefix : CHOREO
5
"___ Sanctorum" : ACTA
6
Actor Bert et al. : LAHRS
7
French seaport : BREST
8
Einstein's birthplace : ULM
9
Bossy's call : MOO
10
Suspend : HANG
11
Ireland : ERIN
12
Green Gables girl : ANNE
13
Gangster Diamond : LEGS
18
Felt topper : FEDORA
19
90's songs : RAPS
22
Shoe leathers for Elvis : SUEDES
23
As a whole : INTOTO
24
What early starters jump : THEGUN
26
Fine violin : AMATI
27
British moms : MATERS
29
Becomes tense : KEYSUP
31
Sunlamp product : TAN
32
Plaza brat, in children's lit : ELOISE
33
Hooligan : RIOTER
34
Most logical : SANEST
37
TV host Jack and others : PAARS
38
Salamander : EFT
41
Make a hole : DIG
42
Keep : RETAIN
47
Make money : EARN
49
___ oneself of (uses) : AVAILS
51
These, in Lima : ESTOS
52
New York and London areas : SOHOS
54
Water, for Cato : AQUA
55
Maid's target : DUST
56
"___ we forget" : LEST
57
Weird: Var. : EERY
59
Entertain grandly : FETE
61
Dobbin's tidbit : OAT
62
Agcy. for homeowners : FHA
63
Hiatus : GAP
64
Charlemagne's domain: Abbr. : HRE
65
Playing marble : TAW

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

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