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New York Times, Monday, April 8, 1996

Author:
S. B. Whitten
Editor:
Will Shortz
29-Across : Naval fleets
TotalDebutLatest
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.5029920%
Stanley B. Whitten

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Whitten. Monday freshness: 80%
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© 1996, The New York Times4/8/96 ( No. 16,953 )
Across
1
Surviving : ALIVE
6
Police radio messages, for short : APBS
10
Come clean, with "up" : FESS
14
Rich veins : LODES
15
Word to a fly : SHOO
16
"Step___!" : ONIT
17
1995 Kline-Ryan comedy : FRENCHKISS
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Monster : OGRE
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Look up to : ADMIRE
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One who works at a stable : HOSTLER
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Free, as a subscription : COMP
25
Think out loud : OPINE
26
Make misty : BEDEW
29
Naval fleets : ARMADAS
33
Buckeyes' school: Abbr. : OSU
34
Exertion : STRAIN
36
Slender : THIN
39
Dobbin's dinner : OATS
41
Redhead's dye : HENNA
42
Hawaiian seaport : HILO
43
Filth : MUCK
44
Bars at Fort Knox : INGOTS
46
Chablis or Beaujolais : VIN
47
He's cool : HIPSTER
49
Check recipient : PAYEE
51
Quarrel : SETTO
53
Walk heavily : SLOG
55
Celebrates : PARTIES
58
Make possible : ENABLE
62
Words of understanding : ISEE
63
Beef entree : SWISSSTEAK
66
Close : NEAR
67
Riot spray : MACE
68
Chicago's ___Field : OHARE
69
Concordes : SSTS
70
"Iliad," e.g. : EPIC
71
Area of corporate expenditure, in brief : RANDD
Down
1
Italian auto ___Romeo : ALFA
2
The Almighty : LORD
3
The same as before : IDEM
4
City of canals : VENICE
5
Home seller deposits : ESCROWS
6
Inquire : ASK
7
___Beta Kappa : PHI
8
"Poppycock!" : BOSH
9
Middling : SOSO
10
Walker's lane : FOOTPATH
11
Ornamental vine : ENGLISHIVY
12
Ambulance's warning : SIREN
13
Cubic meter : STERE
18
Dress's bottom : HEM
22
Square of lawn : SOD
24
Ma or Pa : PARENT
26
Cannon's sound : BOOM
27
Jacob's twin : ESAU
28
Separate-checks occasion : DUTCHTREAT
30
Distance : RANGE
31
Class AAA baseball : MINORS
32
Med. sch. course : ANAT
35
"___Magic Moment" (60's hit) : THIS
37
Nastase of tennis : ILIE
38
"And Then There Were___" : NONE
40
Runs lightly and rapidly : SKITTERS
45
Advertiser : SPONSOR
48
Luau dish : POI
50
Christie who wrote 38-Down : AGATHA
51
Rotates : SPINS
52
Facilitates : EASES
54
"___Miserables" : LES
56
Salinger girl : ESME
57
Trade : SWAP
59
Lima, for one : BEAN
60
Cooking fat : LARD
61
___out (barely got) : EKED
64
Here, in Nice : ICI
65
Jiffy : SEC

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

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