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New York Times, Thursday, March 28, 1996

Author:
G. Petgrave
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : Charitable one
TotalDebutLatest
812/4/19936/10/2000
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0001115
ScrabDebutFresh
1.481469%
Glenton Petgrave

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 29 Missing: {BJKQXYZ} This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Petgrave. Thursday freshness: 75%
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S
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P
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F
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L
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C
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A
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R
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M
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G
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U
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M
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C
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N
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G
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R
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© 1996, The New York Times3/28/96 ( No. 16,942 )
Across
1
Charitable one : SPONSOR
8
Aloof : OFFISH
14
Fish whose male hatches the eggs : SEAHORSE
15
Tree-held shelter : LEANTO
16
Heaven : PARADISE
17
Hard to move : LEADEN
18
In the know : AWARE
19
Work of Homer : ILIAD
21
Ill temper : IRE
22
Sugar source : CANE
23
Chief : MAIN
24
Intellectuals : SAGES
26
"Am___believe...?" : ITO
27
Confession maker : SINNER
29
Arguable : MOOT
30
Horses' sounds : NEIGHS
32
Sourball : GRUMP
34
Breakfast cereal : GRANOLA
36
1948 Literature Nobelist : TSELIOT
40
Old hand : ADEPT
42
Crayola color : SIENNA
43
C.I.S. predecessor : USSR
46
Furtive one : DARTER
48
Take captive : NET
49
Domain : REALM
51
Winter need : COAT
52
Price : COST
53
Hair-styling stuff : GEL
54
Oil, pharmaceutically : OLEUM
56
Scoundrel : DEVIL
57
Large lizard : IGUANA
59
Protective fence : PALISADE
61
Down below : NETHER
62
Prominent : ELEVATED
63
Hall of Fame members : GREATS
64
Put on a pedestal : REVERED
Down
1
Nonpotable : SEAWATER
2
Irrational distrust : PARANOIA
3
Alternative to Midway : OHARE
4
Bump : NODE
5
___Lanka : SRI
6
Legendary Gaelic hero : OSSIAN
7
Not steady on the feet : REELING
8
Jar : OLLA
9
Gives special nursing care : FEEDS
10
Airline watchdog grp. : FAA
11
Blue shade : INDIGO
12
Car option : STEREO
13
Fair and square : HONEST
14
Typist's concern : SPACING
20
Sluggish : INERT
23
Duped : MISLED
25
Roomy : AMPLE
27
Supplied with footwear : SHOD
28
Reddish-brown winter apple : RUSSET
31
Contort : GNARL
33
Israel's Golda : MEIR
35
Fast : APACE
37
Produce new technology : INNOVATE
38
Partial : ONESIDED
39
Was a snitch : TATTLED
41
Veteran actor : TROUPER
43
Insistence : URGING
44
"If I Had a Hammer" singer : SEEGER
45
Bow to : SALUTE
47
"Hot" dish : TAMALE
50
Water lilies painter : MONET
52
Labor organizer Chavez : CESAR
55
Swedish author Gustafsson : LARS
56
Belly flop, e.g. : DIVE
58
"There you are!" : AHA
60
Soviet Physics Nobelist___Landau : LEV

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

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