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New York Times, Thursday, April 11, 1996

Author:
R. Hamel
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Aviary?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
271/22/19946/19/20061
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
3442446
ScrabDebutFresh
1.6015145%
Raymond Hamel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {KQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Hamel. Thursday freshness: 67%
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© 1996, The New York Times4/11/96 ( No. 16,956 )
Across
1
Bad golf shot : BAFF
5
Stuff : CRAM
9
"Apollo 13" co-star : BACON
14
Epithet for Athena : ALEA
15
Ready for picking : RIPE
16
Kind of artery : ILIAC
17
Site at the end of "Romeo and Juliet" : TOMB
18
Satanic : EVIL
19
Cabal : JUNTO
20
Aviary? : HOMETWEETHOME
23
Search (out) : FERRET
24
Marker : IOU
25
Rustic parents : MAS
28
Buck Rogers player Gerard : GIL
29
Monopolist's amount : ALL
30
Covenant : PACT
31
Bowling alley button : RESET
34
Junior Dumas : FILS
35
Sgt. Snorkel's bulldog : OTTO
36
Bird call competition? : ACHEEPIMITATION
39
Modern music maker : MOOG
40
Antilles, e.g. : ILES
41
Mother-of-pearl : NACRE
42
First name in fashion : OLEG
43
Antiquity, old-style : ELD
44
"Wanna___?" : BET
45
Bird's beak : NEB
46
Start of many Quebec place names : STE
47
Bodies of law : CANONS
50
Why the crow wouldn't sing? : ITHADJUSTCAWS
54
Girl of a Beatles title : JULIA
56
Sharer's word : OURS
57
Attacks weeds : HOES
58
Made goo-goo eyes at : OGLED
59
Bring to ruin : UNDO
60
"___Her on Monday" (1942 song) : IMET
61
Domineering : BOSSY
62
Mrs. Dick Tracy : TESS
63
Low state, with "the" : PITS
Down
1
Serious business loss : BATH
2
Cold : ALOOF
3
"Cherchez la___" : FEMME
4
Russian royal treasure : FABERGEEGG
5
Embroidery yarn : CREWEL
6
Construction fastener : RIVET
7
"...blackbirds baked in___" : APIE
8
"Coca-Cola Cowboy" singer : MELTILLIS
9
Small, exquisite ornament : BIJOU
10
Reunion attender : ALUM
11
Of the movies : CINEMATIC
12
Kind of bran : OAT
13
U.S.O. user : NCO
21
Shopworn : TRITE
22
"The Planets" composer : HOLST
26
Cast member : ACTOR
27
What "litho-" means : STONE
29
Pointed : AIMED
30
Picnic bite : POTATOCHIP
31
Novarro of "Ben-Hur" : RAMON
32
Moliere's "L'___des femmes" : ECOLE
33
Nile birds : SHOEBILLS
34
Got plumper : FILLEDOUT
37
Michelangelo marble : PIETA
38
Concerning : ANENT
44
Low singers : BASSOS
46
Darkened : SHADY
47
Part of Miss Muffet's diet : CURDS
48
Model Campbell : NAOMI
49
Darling : SWEET
51
Connections : TIES
52
Part of summer : JUNE
53
Sonic boom creators : SSTS
54
Task : JOB
55
Italian dramatist ___Betti : UGO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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