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New York Times, Friday, March 1, 1996

Author:
Charles E. Gersch
Editor:
Will Shortz
21-Across : Hoover Dam loc.
TotalDebutLatest
485/10/19519/29/2010
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.53973173%
Charles E. Gersch

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {FJQXZ} This is puzzle # 38 for Mr. Gersch. Friday freshness: 42%
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© 1996, The New York Times3/1/96 ( No. 16,915 )
Across
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Microwaveable meal : TVDINNER
9
Reach : GETAT
14
Card game also called schnautz : THIRTYONE
15
Nellie Forbush's "South Pacific" love : EMILE
16
Environmentalist's activity : RECYCLING
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Continued : RANON
18
Pierre's soul : AME
19
Car engine part : HOSE
20
Something much watched : WEIGHT
21
Hoover Dam loc. : NEV
22
"___blue-bell or streamer" (Poe poem start) : NEATH
24
Ancestress of six tribes of Israel : LEAH
25
Does a dog trick : SPEAKS
28
Subject of a certain code : DRESS
30
Stick one's___ (meddle) : OARIN
31
"It's___thing!" : ASURE
32
Detroit inits. : GMC
35
1939 Jimmy Stewart role : MRSMITH
37
Holiday decoration : MENORAH
39
Jamaican music : SKA
40
Win completely : SWEEP
42
1970 World's Fair site : OSAKA
43
Flimflammer : CHEAT
44
Detective, often : TRACER
45
Wound : GASH
48
First name in dance : ADELE
50
Add-on : ELL
51
Slight improvement : UPTICK
53
Delaware Senator William : ROTH
55
Never, in Nurnberg : NIE
56
"If I Were___Man" ("Fiddler" tune) : ARICH
57
Collection of a sort : ANTHOLOGY
59
Home for Hadrian : VILLA
60
Lines at a stadium? : BASEPATHS
61
Take up, e.g. : ALTER
62
Jazz band part : CLARINET
Down
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Disney venture : THEMEPARK
2
The opposite : VICEVERSA
3
Like Rioja wine : DRY
4
Yen : ITCH
5
These may run while you walk : NYLONS
6
Brattle : NOISE
7
Supreme Courts, e.g. : ENNEADS
8
Std. : REG
9
"Power" star, 1986 : GERE
10
Writes modern-style : EMAILS
11
Small amount : TINGE
12
Farewell : ALOHA
13
Tin anniversary : TENTH
14
Some windows : TRANSOMS
20
Invitation heading : WHERE
23
Surpass : TRUMP
26
Rifleman's second in command? : AIM
27
Deli delicacy : KNISH
29
___Wences of "The Ed Sullivan Show" : SENOR
31
Onward : AHEAD
32
Musical embellishment : GRACENOTE
33
Belittle, with "of" : MAKELIGHT
34
Brandon Thomas play "___Aunt" : CHARLEYS
36
Pinch : TWEAK
38
___Mayor (Spanish Big Dipper) : OSA
41
God, with "the" : ETERNAL
43
Chewing gum base : CHICLE
44
Restrain : TETHER
45
Fruit jelly source : GUAVA
46
Shower time : APRIL
47
Pink-legged bird : STILT
49
"___luck!" : LOTSA
52
Scorch : CHAR
54
Tribe whose name means "peaceful" : HOPI
57
Epitome of simplicity : ABC
58
The year, in Paris : LAN

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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