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New York Times, Friday, March 24, 1995

Author:
Christopher Hurt
Editor:
Will Shortz
64-Across : Religious title
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
117/19/199412/23/19981
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2013410
ScrabDebutFresh
1.607363%
Christopher Hurt

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Hurt. Friday freshness: 73%
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© 1995, The New York Times3/24/95 ( No. 16,572 )
Across
1
BBC competitor : ITV
4
Spoils : SWAG
8
Furry swimmers : OTTERS
14
Curtain : SHOWTIME
16
Business group : CARTEL
17
Depressions : MALAISES
18
Emergency processing : TRIAGE
19
Antiperspirant's target : WETNESS
20
Best of all possible worlds : UTOPIA
21
This may have come first : EGG
22
K.G.B. predecessor : OGPU
24
L.I. clock setting : EST
25
Like some juices : CITROUS
29
___, Bravo, Charlie,... : ALFA
31
Like a bump on ___ : ALOG
32
Boss's last words : YOUREFIRED
37
Gull-like birds : SKUAS
39
Italian artist ___ Bartolommeo : FRA
40
Notched : EROSE
41
Humankind : EARTHLINGS
44
Frame part : JAMB
45
Brian Boru's land : ERIN
46
Makes hard to read : ENCODES
48
Noun after a verb: Abbr. : OBJ
51
Without a clue : ASEA
53
Factory second: Abbr. : IRR
54
Crotchety folk : GRUMPS
56
Took up residence : MOVEDIN
60
Mardi Gras mask : DOMINO
61
Hunter : PREDATOR
63
Badge : EMBLEM
64
Religious title : HOLINESS
65
Improvise, in music : NOODLE
66
Educational org. : INST
67
Ran into : MET
Down
1
You can believe it : ISM
2
Warm up : THAW
3
Field mouse : VOLE
4
"Sophie's Choice" role : STINGO
5
Flippant fellow : WISEGUY
6
Iowa State's home : AMES
7
Surface for painting : GESSO
8
Eightfold : OCTUPLE
9
Molière hypocrite : TARTUFFE
10
Fates, e.g. : TRIO
11
Troop encampment : ETAPE
12
First name in TV talk : REGIS
13
Sound between Skye and Scotland : SLEAT
15
1973 news topic : WATERGATE
23
Breezeway terminus : GARAGE
25
File object : CASE
26
She was Sylvia in Broadway's "The Women" : ILKA
27
The rounds : TOUR
28
1959 Fiestas hit : SOFINE
30
Popular sneaker : AIRJORDAN
33
Coffee container : URN
34
It may have broad shoulders : ROAD
35
Salinger girl : ESME
36
Five-time Presidential candidate : DEBS
38
Dangerous debris : SHRAPNEL
42
Supple : LISSOME
43
Mewls : SNIVELS
47
Acknowledge : CREDIT
48
Chicago's first mayor William : OGDEN
49
Fizzy remedy : BROMO
50
Family-size : JUMBO
52
On both sides: Prefix : AMPHI
55
Easy to take : MILD
57
"Straight ___ the rocks?" : ORON
58
Detail : ITEM
59
Airplane part : NOSE
62
Alphabet snippet : RST

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

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