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New York Times, Wednesday, February 1, 1995

Author:
Chet Currier
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : "E.R." rival
TotalDebutLatest
1811/25/19741/15/1997
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1416150
RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
11.54261240%
Chet Currier

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 16 for Mr. Currier. Wednesday freshness: 39%
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D
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© 1995, The New York Times2/1/95 ( No. 16,521 )
Across
1
Twin : DUAL
5
Market Square Arena team : PACERS
11
Dog command : BEG
14
Eye : OGLE
15
Turkish travel stop : IMARET
16
Bygone coalition: Abbr. : UAR
17
"E.R." rival : CHICAGOHOPE
19
Brother : FRA
20
Kay Kyser's "___ Reveille" : TIL
21
Hide-hair connector : NOR
22
___ in the ointment : AFLY
23
Cape Cod sight : DUNE
24
E.B. White output : ESSAYS
26
Stultified : INARUT
28
Free and easy : CASUAL
30
Isolated : SOLE
31
Religious rift : SCHISM
33
Anomalous : ODD
36
Works into shape : MOLDS
38
Scull : OAR
39
Clear-eyed : SOBER
41
Chunk of history : ERA
42
Gulch : ARROYO
45
Wretched : VILE
46
Frequent dice rolls : SEVENS
48
It may be laid down : THELAW
50
Confused : FOGGED
52
Pitch : HURL
53
60's coif : AFRO
54
Mate for Bambi : DOE
57
Outback egg-layer : EMU
58
Western Indian : UTE
59
Horse of the Year, 1977 : SEATTLESLEW
64
Wedding notice word : NEE
65
Get more gas : REFUEL
66
"___ perpetua" (Idaho's motto) : ESTO
67
Actress Lesley ___ Warren : ANN
68
Shakespeare's Duke of Illyria : ORSINO
69
Canvasback : DUCK
Down
1
Cohort of Wyatt : DOC
2
"Yuck" relative : UGH
3
"Aladdin" prince : ALI
4
Reprimanded : LECTURED
5
Farm newcomers : PIGLETS
6
Catullus's "Odi et ___" : AMO
7
Songwriter Sammy : CAHN
8
Switch ending : EROO
9
Subdue : REPRESS
10
Sault ___ Marie : STE
11
Subject of an E.E. Cummings "portrait" : BUFFALOBILL
12
Civil War general, loser at Waynesboro : EARLY
13
Becomes grizzled : GRAYS
18
Japanese aborigine : AINU
22
Film speed no. : ASA
23
Former New York Mets manager : DALLASGREEN
25
Tasks for calculators : SUMS
26
"Woe ___!" : ISME
27
Jordanian queen : NOOR
28
Turmoil : CHAOS
29
Light and open : AIRY
32
Mawkish material : CORN
34
Poet Walter ___ Mare : DELA
35
Lured : DREW
37
Goal preventer : SAVE
40
Trite : OVERUSED
43
Forest denizen : REDDEER
44
1982 James Earl Jones role : OTHELLO
47
The big I : EGO
49
Actor Cronyn : HUME
50
Creatures : FAUNA
51
Many times : OFTEN
55
Dunces : OAFS
56
Toiletries case : ETUI
59
Kind of hotel, for short : SRO
60
X : TEN
61
Southeastern Conference sch. : LSU
62
Catchall abbr. : ETC
63
Stir-fry vessel : WOK

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

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