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New York Times, Tuesday, March 11, 1997

Author:
Alan Arbesfeld
Editor:
Will Shortz
25-Across : The United States, metaphorically
TotalDebutLatest
1338/27/19814/1/2024
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RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
51.59618943%
Alan Arbesfeld

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJKX} This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Arbesfeld. Tuesday freshness: 84%
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© 1997, The New York Times3/11/97 ( No. 17,290 )
Across
1
Certain drapes : SWAGS
6
Atlantic food fish : SCUP
10
Gator's kin : CROC
14
Cop ___ (confess for a lighter sentence) : APLEA
15
White-tailed flier : ERNE
16
Deli offering : HERO
17
Colt 45, e.g. : MALTLIQUOR
19
List member : ITEM
20
"That's a lie!" : UNTRUE
21
Household : MENAGE
23
70's-80's robotic rock group : DEVO
25
The United States, metaphorically : MELTINGPOT
27
Uris hero : ARI
28
Dance, in Dijon : BAL
29
Member of the 500 HR club : OTT
30
Rock impresario Brian : ENO
31
Surgical fabric : GAUZE
33
Ant, in dialect : EMMET
35
"Texaco Star Theater" host : MILTONBERLE
39
Cut down : PARED
40
Brilliance : ECLAT
43
High dudgeon : IRE
46
Mai ___ : TAI
47
Go on to say : ADD
49
"Bravo!" : OLE
50
It once settled near Pompeii : MOLTENLAVA
53
Part of a whole : UNIT
54
Kangaroo movements : BOUNDS
55
Hayfield activity : BALING
57
Prefix with China : INDO
58
Kind of cereal : MULTIGRAIN
62
Shade of red : BEET
63
Conception : IDEA
64
Bizarre : OUTRE
65
Bronte heroine : EYRE
66
Pre-1821 Missouri, e.g.: Abbr. : TERR
67
He had Scarlett fever : RHETT
Down
1
Uncle of note : SAM
2
New Deal prog. : WPA
3
Stream deposit : ALLUVIUM
4
"I can't ___" (Stones refrain) : GETNO
5
Morton product : SALT
6
"Rocky II," e.g. : SEQUEL
7
Diabolical : CRUEL
8
Due halved : UNO
9
Words of assistance : PERMITME
10
"I ___" (ancient Chinese text) : CHING
11
Record again : RETAPE
12
Where to find Eugene : OREGON
13
Awaken : COMETO
18
Early Shirley role : IRMA
22
Signed up for : ENTERED
23
U.N.'s Hammarskjold : DAG
24
Former polit. cause : ERA
26
___ of the Unknowns : TOMB
28
Like some greeting cards : BELATED
32
Nine-digit number, maybe : ZIP
33
Ultimate point : END
34
R.N.'s offering : TLC
36
Send : TRANSMIT
37
Trompe l'___ : OEIL
38
Stretch : ELONGATE
41
He KO'd Quarry, 10/26/70 : ALI
42
Asian holiday : TET
43
Tipple : IMBIBE
44
"Didja ever wonder...?" humorist : ROONEY
45
Successful escapee : ELUDER
47
Incarnation : AVATAR
48
Spanish Surrealist : DALI
51
Certain investment, informally : TNOTE
52
More competent : ABLER
53
Jesse who lost to Ronald Reagan in 1970 : UNRUH
56
Composer Stravinsky : IGOR
59
Ending with quiet : UDE
60
N.Y.C. subway : IRT
61
Modern information source, with "the" : NET

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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