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New York Times, Thursday, April 25, 1996

Author:
W. Canine
Editor:
Will Shortz
63-Across : Lizards
TotalDebutLatest
6710/16/19815/25/1998
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1551220195
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.5666523%
William Canine

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 35 Missing: {FQXZ} This is puzzle # 66 for Mr. Canine. Thursday freshness: 32%
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© 1996, The New York Times4/25/96 ( No. 16,970 )
Across
1
Prospector's aid : MAP
4
Crawl, e.g. : SWIM
8
Suddenly regain attention : SNAPTO
14
"...___quit!" : ORI
15
Soap bar : CAKE
16
Kind of collision : MIDAIR
17
Sleuth out : DISCOVER
19
Relative of euchre : ECARTE
20
One's all : ESTATE
21
Automaton : GOLEM
23
1958 Edgar winner Rex___ : STOUT
24
Ship, in poesy : KEEL
25
Some Duchamp art : DADA
29
Chinese dynasty : TANG
30
Book and TV crime solver : PERRYMASON
32
Utility customers : USERS
34
Northern native : ALEUT
35
Historic launch : TELSTAR
38
Suitcases : BAGGAGE
40
Like dogwood leaves : OVATE
41
Stendhal hero : SOREL
42
Crime solver from St. Mary Mead : JANEMARPLE
45
Part of the U.S. arsenal : ICBM
49
Linear : ONED
50
Twosome : DUET
51
Prefix with logical : NEURO
52
Incorporate : UNITE
54
Kind of note : POSTIT
55
Labiate : LIPPED
58
Tie : DEADHEAT
60
Beethoven's Third : EROICA
61
Exhort : URGE
62
___-Cone : SNO
63
Lizards : SKINKS
64
N.F.L., e.g., with "the" : PROS
65
Fabric measures: Abbr. : YDS
Down
1
Hardly given to exhibitionism : MODEST
2
Awn : ARISTA
3
Detroit cager : PISTON
4
Apollo 9 and 15 astronaut : SCOTT
5
Silent goodbye : WAVE
6
Alibi___ : IKE
7
Big business doings : MERGERS
8
Reeking : SMELLY
9
"Well done!" : NICE
10
P. D. James's crime solver from Scotland Yard : ADAMDALGLIESH
11
Figure to shoot for : PAR
12
Small songbird : TIT
13
Bauxite, e.g. : ORE
18
Poe's pioneering crime solver : CAUGUSTEDUPIN
22
___hill 'n' dale : OER
24
"The King and I" actress : KERR
26
Cruising : ASEA
27
McClure of "The Virginian" : DOUG
28
A chip, maybe : ANTE
30
Stew morsel : PEA
31
Old sorcerer : MAGE
33
Florist's cutting : STEM
35
W.W. II leader : TOJO
36
1985 Edgar winner___Hunter : EVAN
37
Wagon path : LANE
38
Lightning zigzag : BOLT
39
Live : ARE
41
Step on the gas : SPEEDUP
43
Some gym gear : ADIDAS
44
Groove : RUT
46
Coyly mannered : CUTESY
47
Name in a 1928 pact : BRIAND
48
Common inscriptions : MOTTOS
51
Knots : NODES
53
Make out : NECK
54
When repeated, a Samoan port : PAGO
55
French article : LES
56
Exasperate : IRK
57
Luau fare : POI
59
Fumble : ERR

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

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