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New York Times, Wednesday, November 19, 1997

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
41-Across : Venue
TotalDebutLatest
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 21 for Ms. Gorski. Wednesday freshness: 41%
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© 1997, The New York Times11/19/97 ( No. 17,543 )
Across
1
With 6-Across, attacked verbally : LACED
6
See 1-Across : INTO
10
Key : ISLE
14
Circumvent : EVADE
15
Twelve, half of the time : NOON
16
Cast off : SHED
17
Ear-related : AURAL
18
Zilch, so to speak : NONE
19
White-water carrier : RAFT
20
Like some Halloween costumes : FLAMERESISTANT
23
Erhard's claim to fame : EST
24
"___ Tu" (70's hit) : ERES
25
Knot again : RETIE
27
Charlotte russe, for one : DESSERT
30
More slick : OILIER
31
Kind of support : SPOUSAL
34
Big section in a dictionary : ESS
35
"The Fabulous Baker Boys" actor : BEAUBRIDGES
38
Journal publisher : AMA
40
Starts to cry : TEARSUP
41
Venue : LOCALE
44
One of the Apostles : STSIMON
48
Where a bangle may dangle : ANKLE
49
Hunt and peck : TYPE
51
Have a go at : TRY
52
Golden parachute, e.g. : SWEETHEARTDEAL
56
Fly high : SOAR
57
Onetime airline : BOAC
58
___ lunch : OUTTO
59
Drink with Stilton : PORT
60
Michelangelo's work : ARTE
61
Part of a wood joint : TENON
62
Common links : ANDS
63
The supreme Supreme : ROSS
64
Observatory observations : STARS
Down
1
Paged : LEAFED
2
Tear apart : AVULSE
3
Gemologist's concern : CARATS
4
Round cheese : EDAM
5
Take out : DELE
6
Flotation device : INNERTUBE
7
Looped rope : NOOSE
8
Morrison and Braxton : TONIS
9
Small bills : ONES
10
Handel's "___ in Egypt" : ISRAEL
11
Hovels : SHANTIES
12
Southpaws : LEFTIES
13
Summer hrs. in D.C. : EDT
21
Send another way : REROUTE
22
Prefix with state : TRI
26
Sounds of fluster : ERS
28
Quito-to-La Paz dir. : SSE
29
Govt. watchdog : EPA
30
Senior citizen : OLDSTER
32
Sp. lady : SRA
33
Places for flight patterns : AIRSPACES
35
Unenlightened : BACKWARD
36
Gloomy guy : GUS
37
Center starter : EPI
38
Pie-mode connection : ALA
39
Wet time : MONSOON
42
Signals : ALERTS
43
Jackie's sister : LEE
45
Site of the forges of Hephaestus, in myth : MTETNA
46
Daniel Webster, e.g. : ORATOR
47
Hose : NYLONS
49
Complete, informally : THORO
50
"The Wild Swans at Coole" poet : YEATS
53
It can give you a lift : TBAR
54
Kindergarteners : TOTS
55
Puccini's "Flower ___" : DUET
56
Place to unwind : SPA

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

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