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New York Times, Thursday, October 29, 1998

Author:
Cathy Millhauser
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Across : ___ Martin cars
TotalDebutLatest
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211.58657442%
Cathy Allis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQVZ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 48 for Ms. Allis. Thursday freshness: 1%
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C
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A
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P
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H
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T
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© 1998, The New York Times10/29/98 ( No. 17,887 )
Across
1
Wrap : COAT
5
Scrap : SPAT
9
Sparkle : ECLAT
14
Common rhyme scheme : ABBA
15
Mayor Dinkins's predecessor : KOCH
16
Coronet : TIARA
17
Choose one of two gas forms : PICKEITHERETHER
20
Connecticut River town : ESSEX
21
___ Maria liqueur : TIA
22
Not give ___ : ARAP
23
Kind of bay : SICK
26
Poker game : STUD
28
Grand you earn, old-style : THOUTHOUMAKEST
34
King David's instrument : HARP
35
Author Beattie : ANN
36
Yale of Yale University : ELIHU
38
Prohibition ___ : ERA
39
Hoffman and Streep, in a 1979 film : KRAMERS
42
"Just kidding!" : NOT
43
___ Martin cars : ASTON
45
Airport approximation : ETA
46
Mideast capital : SANA
47
Part of a Pilgrim's anatomy lesson : HEREISTHYTHIGH
51
Metric prefix : DECI
52
Rex's stout detective : NERO
53
Let go : FREE
56
Noisy trains : ELS
58
Caddies' offerings : IRONS
62
"Do that vowel over, Kojak" : REWRITETHEOTHEO
66
Poster boys, maybe : IDOLS
67
Pitcher Hideo : NOMO
68
Falsified : LIED
69
1964 Olympics site : TOKYO
70
Times that try parents' souls : TWOS
71
Geriatric Jedi master : YODA
Down
1
May in New Jersey, e.g. : CAPE
2
"The Mikado" attire : OBIS
3
Basics : ABCS
4
Occupies : TAKESUP
5
Word with water or jet : SKI
6
Olla : POT
7
Sieben follower : ACHT
8
Belief in God : THEISM
9
Berlioz's "Nuit d'___" : ETE
10
It went coed 8/24/96, with "The" : CITADEL
11
Bert who was a Leo, aptly : LAHR
12
Department : AREA
13
Field cover : TARP
18
Withdrawal : EXIT
19
Pro ___ : RATA
24
Flat cleaner : CHAR
25
Hawaiian coffee : KONA
27
Banjos' kin : UKES
28
Former ABC sitcom : THEA
29
Grating : HARSH
30
Emulate Cicero : ORATE
31
Like some goals, sadly : UNMET
32
Where Moses got the word : SINAI
33
Flip-flop : THONG
37
Its motto is "Industry" : UTAH
39
Kind of jerk : KNEE
40
People: Prefix : ETHN
41
Actress Martha : RAYE
44
Neat : ORDERLY
46
Soon : SHORTLY
48
"Body Count" rapper : ICET
49
Mum : SILENT
50
The Fates, e.g. : TRIO
53
Glassmaking ingredient : FRIT
54
Overhaul : REDO
55
Furry "Star Wars" creature : EWOK
57
Put in the hold : STOW
59
Wheeling's river : OHIO
60
Financial aid criterion : NEED
61
Kind of jerk : SODA
63
Prefix with -prene : ISO
64
Medical provider grp. : HMO
65
Daybreak deity : EOS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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