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New York Times, Tuesday, April 21, 1998

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
59-Across : Erratic move
TotalDebutLatest
15411/22/19939/1/2024
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.5550233%
Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQV} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 44 for Mr. Piscop. Tuesday freshness: 25%
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K
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H
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A
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N
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M
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P
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C
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N
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N
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R
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B
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G
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M
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© 1998, The New York Times4/21/98 ( No. 17,696 )
Across
1
Top Tatar : KHAN
5
N.Y.C. gallery : MOMA
9
Bygone A.M.C. car : PACER
14
Junction : NODE
15
Pop music's Clapton or Carmen : ERIC
16
Allan-___ : ADALE
17
20
Obliterates : XES
21
"Hurry up!" : COMEON
22
Scruff : NAPE
23
Happy hour day, usually: Abbr. : FRI
24
"Piano," literally : SOFT
26
Any doctrine : ISM
27
Eyepieces, in jargon : OCULARS
31
Opposite of pencil in : ERASE
33
Settlement of 1624 : NEWAMSTERDAM
36
Swarm : TEEM
37
Give it ___ (attempt to do) : AGO
38
Wine connoisseur's concern : YEAR
42
Extra life : BORROWEDTIME
47
Garbo, who vanted to be let alone : GRETA
49
Beat the admission fee : SNEAKIN
50
Rage : IRE
51
Where Tulsa is: Abbr. : OKLA
54
MSNBC competitor : CNN
55
Beats by a nose : NIPS
57
Mama Cass of the Mamas and the Papas : ELLIOT
59
Erratic move : ZIG
62
Thoroughbred-breeding country : BLUEGRASSREGION
65
Sacrifice site : ALTAR
66
Yard pest : MOLE
67
Diva Moffo : ANNA
68
Steel plow maker : DEERE
69
Copies : APES
70
"Shoo!" : SCAT
Down
1
The "K" of James K. Polk : KNOX
2
19th ___ (golf clubhouse) : HOLE
3
Throws in : ADDS
4
Teachers' org. : NEA
5
Autobiographies : MEMOIRS
6
City near Provo : OREM
7
Pesky arachnids : MITES
8
Cause for a blessing : ACHOO
9
Audio systems, for short : PAS
10
Mideast's Gulf of ___ : ADEN
11
Channel port : CALAIS
12
Pass, as time : ELAPSE
13
Shorten again, as a skirt : REHEM
18
"Get outta here!" : SCRAM
19
Famine-stricken : UNFED
23
Burn a steak on purpose? : FLAMBE
25
___-la-la : TRA
27
Neighbor of Que. : ONT
28
Middle grade : CEE
29
Hockey's Krupp : UWE
30
Astronomer's sighting : STAR
32
"The Joy Luck Club" writer : AMYTAN
34
Big head : EGO
35
Propels a dinghy : ROWS
39
Apt. feature, in the classifieds : EIK
40
"What ___, chopped liver?" : AMI
41
Stimpy's TV partner : REN
43
Ear: Prefix : OTO
44
Autumn toiler : RAKER
45
Concert extenders : ENCORES
46
Al ___ (not too soft) : DENTE
47
Car's front : GRILLE
48
Good name : REPUTE
50
___ company (running with troublemakers) : INBAD
52
Andean animal : LLAMA
53
Journalist Stewart : ALSOP
56
Burn the surface of : SEAR
58
Vacation spot, perhaps : ISLE
59
Brass component : ZINC
60
New Rochelle college : IONA
61
Pesky flier : GNAT
63
Coll. senior's test : GRE
64
Kind of station : GAS

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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