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New York Times, Friday, March 5, 1999

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Across : Bill Gates and Steve Jobs
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1418/26/19955/9/20241
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311092443303
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
331.591,23673%
Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 29 Missing: {FJQWZ} This is puzzle # 15 for Mr. DiPietro. Friday freshness: 38%
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© 1999, The New York Times3/5/99 ( No. 18,014 )
Across
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7-10 and others : SPLITS
7
It appears next to some records : ASTERISK
15
College unit : CREDIT
16
Check out : LOOKINTO
17
Lots and plots : REALTY
18
Join : TAKEPART
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Legal action : APPEAL
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Suffix with verb : OSE
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It was, to Ovid : ERAT
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Kind of scallop : BAY
23
Mad : NUTS
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All-American name : KNUTE
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Brought up : BRED
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Smooth, in a way : SHAVEN
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Toni Morrison's "___ Baby" : TAR
32
Investigation aids : LEADS
34
Some are political : EXILES
36
Proof goof : ERRATUM
38
Stovepipe : SILKHAT
42
Dweller on the Red Sea : YEMENI
44
Saw things : TEETH
45
___-crab soup : SHE
48
Out to lunch : EATING
50
Proceeds : GATE
51
One holding a chair, perhaps : TAMER
53
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs : CEOS
55
Cold Harbor soldier : REB
56
"A Little Bitty Tear" singer, 1962 : IVES
57
Catullus composition : ODE
59
Valentine's Day message : BEMINE
61
Didn't have enough : RANSHORT
63
British protectorate until 1962 : UGANDA
64
Like a birdie : UNDERPAR
65
Electrical phenomena : SURGES
66
Disregards : PASSESBY
67
China shop purchase : TEASET
Down
1
Kind of tile : SCRABBLE
2
Chef : PREPARER
3
2000, for one : LEAPYEAR
4
Run without moving : IDLE
5
Powerhouse : TITAN
6
Record cutter : STYLUS
7
Part of a jazz combo : ALTOSAX
8
In order (to) : SOAS
9
It's a drag : TOKE
10
Squeeze (out) : EKE
11
Turn yellow, maybe : RIPEN
12
Bound by routine : INARUT
13
Sheets : STRATA
14
Title character in 70's TV : KOTTER
24
Aspiring diva's goal : THEMET
25
Showed respect, in a way : KNELT
27
When zero hour occurs : DDAY
29
Tetrahydrozoline brand : VISINE
30
Shiloh priest : ELI
33
What a wrangler wrangles : STEER
35
Rudder support : SKEG
37
She played Mia in "Pulp Fiction" : UMA
39
Capitol Hill doings : HEARINGS
40
Audience member : ATTENDEE
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Fairy tale title character : THEBEAST
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"Well, almost!" : NICETRY
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Incite : STIRUP
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Plaza de la Revolución locale : HAVANA
47
Improves : EMENDS
49
Lose one's shirt : GOBUST
52
Pluralizers : ESSES
54
Smooth link : SEGUE
57
Cry over spilled milk : OOPS
58
Hardly exciting : DRAB
60
"Matilda" star ___ Wilson : MARA
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Charles V's domain: Abbr. : HRE

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

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