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New York Times, Thursday, December 14, 1995

Author:
Matt Gaffney
Editor:
Will Shortz
47-Across : Listen
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
587/24/19949/6/20001
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1401615157
ScrabDebutFresh
1.6152461%
Matt Gaffney

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JKQUW} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Gaffney. Thursday freshness: 6%
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© 1995, The New York Times12/14/95 ( No. 16,837 )
Across
1
Half of an old radio duo : AMOS
5
German Expressionist Franz ___ : MARC
9
Like many football stadiums : DOMED
14
Queen's home : HIVE
15
Where most people live : ASIA
16
Out : ALIBI
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Stock heading : AMEX
18
Leg crosser : YOGI
19
Computer accessory : CDROM
20
1915 film epic, with "The" : BIRTHOFANATION
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Goddess, in ancient Rome : DEA
24
Leb. neighbor : SYR
25
Bradbury adjective : MARTIAN
29
Not uncut, as a film : SPLICED
33
"___ little teapot..." : IMA
34
1960's U.N. name : THANT
36
Met's home : SHEA
37
1965 Beatles lyric : LIFEISVERYSHORT
41
Picnic ruiners : ANTS
42
Red as ___ : ABEET
43
Polite "du" : SIE
44
Odor eater? : NOSTRIL
47
Listen : PAYHEED
49
Point of law : RES
50
Rock's ___ Lobos : LOS
51
Classic Poirot case : DEATHONTHENILE
59
New Age musician : YANNI
60
Crèche figure : MARY
61
Pressed cheese : EDAM
62
Coordinate : ALIGN
63
Shirt stitching : IZOD
64
Big rig : SEMI
65
Jason deserted her : MEDEA
66
Ajax rival : TIDE
67
Erstwhile despot : TSAR
Down
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Husband of Jezebel : AHAB
2
Actress Rogers : MIMI
3
Banking blunders : OVERDRAFTS
4
The Brady kids, e.g. : SEXTET
5
Minnesota clinic : MAYO
6
Since : ASOF
7
Baltic capital : RIGA
8
Dean of "Lois & Clark" : CAIN
9
Finger or toe : DACTYL
10
Ancient Celtic tongue : OLDIRISH
11
Barcelona-born artist : MIRO
12
Jet : EBON
13
Slow-witted : DIM
21
Columbus landfall, 1492 : HAITI
22
Snake charmer's snake : ASP
25
City of Lombardy : MILAN
26
___ acid : AMINO
27
Relaxed sighs : AHS
28
Like some blockades : NAVAL
29
Throat problem : STREP
30
Didn't engage in fence sitting : CHOSESIDES
31
Chilling : EERIE
32
Obsolete : DATED
35
Lincoln's home: Abbr. : NEB
38
Alienate : ESTRANGE
39
Verily : YEA
40
Do, as hair : STYLE
45
Image receiver : RETINA
46
Approximately, in times : ISH
48
"It's true!" : HONEST
51
Valley : DALE
52
Oklahoma city : ENID
53
Drop : OMIT
54
Hitlerite : NAZI
55
Stepped (on) : TROD
56
Park visited by Sherlock Holmes : HYDE
57
Buddhist priest : LAMA
58
Mideast bigwig : EMIR
59
Starchy dish : YAM

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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