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New York Times, Saturday, February 24, 1996

Author:
M. Shenk
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : Was a dud
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Mike Shenk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JQVXZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Shenk. Saturday freshness: 50%
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© 1996, The New York Times2/24/96 ( No. 16,909 )
Across
1
Was a dud : MISFIRED
9
Sect's manuals? : TRACTS
15
Out early : ONPAROLE
16
"Wayne's World" town : AURORA
17
Like Henry Sweet's alphabet : PHONETIC
18
"Cabaret" setting : BERLIN
19
Electronic drug in Shatner books : TEK
20
Church events : SOCIALS
22
Getting on : OLD
23
Like most testimony : ORAL
25
Fingerprint part : RIDGE
26
Eye of the wolf? : OGLE
27
Needle holders : PINES
29
Concert souvenirs : TEES
30
Humdinger : ONER
31
Dump outputs : STENCHES
33
Packing : ARMED
35
Gaggle:goose::knot:___ : TOAD
36
Turn on the lights, in a way : CLAP
37
Move with stealth : PROWL
39
Jitterbugs : CUTSARUG
43
Gallant : BEAU
44
Scandal : FLAP
46
Singles player : PHONO
47
Wax bananas? : RANT
48
Kernite component : BORON
50
Sir Charles and chums, in basketball : SUNS
51
"___in hoary winter's night": Southwell : ASI
52
Balloon : GROWFAT
54
Draw upon : TAP
55
Year, symbolically : CANDLE
57
Never : ATNOTIME
59
Admission : ENTREE
60
Orlando paper : SENTINEL
61
Psyched up : STOKED
62
Slickers' counterparts : HAYSEEDS
Down
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Fab Four features : MOPTOPS
2
Come into : INHERIT
3
Inland Empire capital : SPOKANE
4
Summer cooler : FAN
5
Ticks off : IRES
6
Wankel engine part : ROTOR
7
Brought out : ELICITED
8
Gets off the fence : DECIDES
9
Cellar contents : TABLESALT
10
Plan de Paris lines : RUES
11
Dep.'s opposite : ARR
12
Christmas gift for a man : COLOGNE
13
Sang like a bird : TRILLED
14
Plane's kin : SANDER
21
Minor drinking problem? : AGE
24
Not in the stacks : LENTOUT
26
Brass band sounds : OOMPAHS
28
Refuse transport : SCOW
32
1973 hit for Cher : HALFBREED
34
Its teeth are conical : RASP
36
Forte : CUPOFTEA
37
Robert Burns, the___Bard : PEASANT
38
Met : RANINTO
39
Compact cleaner : CARWASH
40
Everyday : ROUTINE
41
Left to the imagination : UNNAMED
42
Father's reading : GOSPELS
43
Readies for impact : BRACES
45
Forfeit-paying game : LOO
49
Billy's partner : NANNY
52
18th-century part song : GLEE
53
Wee bits o' whiskey : TOTS
56
Dwight Gooden moniker : DRK
58
Deuce, for example : TIE

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

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