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New York Times, Thursday, February 19, 1998

Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Will Shortz
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A. J. Santora

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 225 for Mr. Santora. Thursday freshness: 41%
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© 1998, The New York Times2/19/98 ( No. 17,635 )
Across
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Where Caesar landed, 46 B.C. : AFRICA
7
Huge : MASSIVE
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Wavered : TEETERTOTTERED
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Requires more than one person, in a saying : TAKESTWOTOTANGO
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Pro ___ : TEM
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Ask, as for a loan : HITUP
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Fruit holder : STEM
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Chap : GUY
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Equivoque : PUN
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Occupy : USE
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Like best : PREFER
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Part of an exchange : TAT
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Hardly a libertine : PRIG
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Ceremonial occasion : SEDER
31
Average : SOSO
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A Turner : LANA
33
Match game? : TICTACTOE
36
French chef's mushroom : CEPE
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Torrent : RASH
40
Photographer's setup : ANGLE
44
They're heard in rings : OLES
45
Giant of a Giant : OTT
46
Not a hog : SHARER
47
Suffix with pay : OLA
48
Continental money : ECU
49
Atmosphere: Prefix : AER
50
Tower site : PISA
52
First: Prefix : PROTO
55
Medit. country : ISR
56
Classic Jolson hit : TOOTTOOTTOOTSIE
60
Gains control, in a way : TURNSTHETABLES
61
Saliva : SPITTLE
62
Drives : STEERS
Down
1
Lawyer: Abbr. : ATT
2
Showcase : FEATURE
3
What lost computer data may need to be : REKEYED
4
Detail : ITEM
5
These, in Thiers : CES
6
Film with the Oscar-winning song "Best That You Can Do" : ARTHUR
7
Kind of court : MOOT
8
An Aleutian : ATTU
9
Depot : STOP
10
Place : SET
11
Some investments, for short : IRAS
12
City with a view of Santa Cruz : VENTURA
13
Enters, but just barely : EDGESIN
15
Kind of bed : TWIN
17
The end, in Revelation : OMEGA
21
Docs : GPS
22
Lovely young woman : PERI
25
Throws a party for : FETES
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A goner : TOAST
27
"The Nazarene" writer : ASCH
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One in a romper room : TOT
29
Full assemblies : PLENA
31
TD's, e.g. : STAT
34
___-Magnon : CRO
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Home of Hickam Air Force Base : OAHU
36
Usurp : COOPT
37
Old sportscaster Win and others : ELLIOTS
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Dense fog : PEASOUP
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Karen of "Little House on the Prairie" : GRASSLE
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More wary : LEERIER
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Slip up : ERR
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Darts : SCOOTS
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Non-P.C. suffix : ETTE
51
Longfellow's "The Bell of ___" : ATRI
52
Assignment : POST
53
Mideast dry measure : ROTL
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"___ days gone by!": Riley : OTHE
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The Beatles' "Let ___" : ITBE
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It can make a molehill out of a mountain : TNT
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Feedbox grain : OAT
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Skiing path : ESS

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

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