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New York Times, Thursday, October 21, 1999

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
16-Across : Gem Stater
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
2548/27/19928/13/20102
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RebusCircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
611.571,613877%
Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 95 for Mr. Nosowsky. Thursday freshness: 53%
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© 1999, The New York Times10/21/99 ( No. 18,244 )
Across
1
Come through with the goods : DELIVER
8
Louis Armstrong, informally : SATCHMO
15
Former : ONETIME
16
Gem Stater : IDAHOAN
17
"Take care of that!" : SEETOIT
18
Short times : MOMENTS
19
Alarming sight at sea : JOLLYROGER
21
Flower part : SEPAL
22
Much-devalued currency : RUBLE
26
It starts and ends with a line : RACE
30
Henry James biographer Leon : EDEL
32
Hat part : BRIM
33
Rama, to Vishnu : AVATAR
36
Markers : IOUS
38
Joanne Woodward Oscar-winning role : EVE
39
Appraise quickly : GIVETHEONCEOVER
42
___ chi ch'uan : TAI
43
Gist : MEAT
44
Deviating, as a rocket : YAWING
45
Kind of tradition : ORAL
47
Some : ATAD
49
Latin infinitive : ESSE
50
Some funeral arrangements : PYRES
52
Fore-and-aft-rigged vessel : SLOOP
55
Believe the bluff : CHICKENOUT
59
Rampaging : ONATEAR
62
More impertinent : SASSIER
65
Try : HAVEAGO
66
Mexican affirmative : SISENOR
67
"Chipping" bird : SPARROW
68
Electra's co-conspirator : ORESTES
Down
1
Fetes and fiestas : DOS
2
Acetyl ender : ENE
3
Actor ___ Cobb : LEEJ
4
"Sock ___ me!" : ITTO
5
Early fiddles : VIOLS
6
Boxer Griffith : EMILE
7
Key over : RETYPE
8
Buck : SIMOLEON
9
Ouida's "___ of Flanders" : ADOG
10
Petruchio, to Kate : TAMER
11
Certain angel : CHERUB
12
"Angel" : HON
13
Pinning surface : MAT
14
Switch positions : ONS
20
Theme of this puzzle, in popular parlance : RADIOTALK
23
Ars longa, vita ___ : BREVIS
24
Perks (up) : LIVENS
25
Come out : EMERGE
26
Convertible : RAGTOP
27
Feature of some zoos : AVIARY
28
Cracker topper : CAVIAR
29
Toulouse time : ETE
31
Charlie Brown tormentor : LUCY
34
It needs a PIN : ATM
35
Consort of Cronus : RHEA
37
Swell place? : SEA
40
Is humiliated : EATSCROW
41
Be behind : OWE
46
Hannibal of "The Silence of the Lambs" : LECTER
48
Terse rebuttal in a shouting match : DOESSO
51
Pilot's wind problem : SHEAR
53
Transmitting : ONAIR
54
Chasers : POSSE
56
"I lack iniquity" speaker : IAGO
57
List on a detergent label : USES
58
Clairol choice : TINT
59
Wonder words : OHS
60
Day break? : NAP
61
Actress Gardner : AVA
63
Classified ad letters : EOE
64
Monopoly foursome: Abbr. : RRS

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

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