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New York Times, Saturday, November 16, 1996

Author:
J. Page
Editor:
Will Shortz
18-Across : Bleacher feature
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Jim Page

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JXYZ} This is puzzle # 97 for Mr. Page. Saturday freshness: 6%
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© 1996, The New York Times11/16/96 ( No. 17,175 )
Across
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Oil-fire fighter : ADAIR
6
Sarcophagus decorations : ASPS
10
Certain protest : FAST
14
Threefold : TRINE
15
Fly ash : SOOT
16
Contemporary of Agatha : ERLE
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Left Bank's thanks : MERCI
18
Bleacher feature : CHEAPSEAT
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Noted virologist : SABIN
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Sticky matter : HOTPOTATO
22
Soft : MUTED
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Ease : LOOSEN
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French author ___ Prevost : ABBE
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Cowboy : VAQUERO
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Holds up : ROBS
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"If ___ make it there..." : ICAN
32
Growing out : ENATE
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Political commentator ___ Thomas : CAL
37
More scintillating : WITTIER
39
Wouk topic : WAR
40
Head of a ranch : STEER
42
Scout's dinner : OATS
43
Fund-raiser, often : GALA
44
Renoir and others : PIERRES
46
Torah holders : ARKS
47
Cuts out : SPLITS
50
Chisel, e.g. : EDGER
52
Curbside sights : TRASHCANS
56
Containers in Castile : URNAS
58
Dude : EASTERNER
59
Paris's ___ Rivoli : RUEDE
60
Pulitzer-winning biographer Leon : EDEL
61
Draft designation : ONEA
62
Beast of Borden : ELSIE
63
"Le Neophyte" artist : DORE
64
Splices : WEDS
65
Fix a course : RESOD
Down
1
People withdraw from these : ATMS
2
Hunk : DREAMBOAT
3
Champagne feature : AIRBUBBLE
4
Sparks : INCITES
5
Dauphin's mother : REINE
6
Author of biblical novels : ASCH
7
Noted gallery locale : SOHO
8
Pound, e.g. : POET
9
Basic commodity : STAPLE
10
Swag : FESTOON
11
Precincts : AREAS
12
Bluish gray : SLATE
13
Jackson Hole's county : TETON
19
Word before "in sickness and in health" : POORER
23
Year in St. Symmachus's papacy : DVII
25
Bows : ARCS
27
Booth, e.g. : ACTOR
28
Its capital is Doha : QATAR
29
Rally : UNITE
33
Perception : AWARENESS
34
Alternative to Top 40 : TALKRADIO
35
Chapters in history : ERAS
37
Squirm : WRITHE
38
Start of North Carolina's motto : ESSE
41
Missive : EPISTLE
43
Debate restriction : GAGRULE
45
Something money is put in : ESCROW
47
Silver, e.g. : STEED
48
Home of Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" : PRADO
49
Holographer's tool : LASER
51
German artist of the Renaissance : DURER
53
Last Stuart ruler : ANNE
54
Call for : NEED
55
Relatives of Mmes. : SRAS
57
Tournament V.I.P. : SEED

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

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