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New York Times, Tuesday, June 17, 1997

Author:
Robert Zimmerman
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Across : Spy's byword
TotalDebutLatest
143/24/199210/10/2007
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0372110
CircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
11.5121215%
Robert Zimmerman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {BJKQX} This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Zimmerman. Tuesday freshness: 27%
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O
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F
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A
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© 1997, The New York Times6/17/97 ( No. 17,388 )
Across
1
Bid : OFFER
6
Mesa dweller : HOPI
10
Nod off : DOZE
14
Site of Cnossus : CRETE
15
Big name in cosmetics : AVON
16
German biographer ___ Ludwig : EMIL
17
"___ looking at you, kid" : HERES
18
Lady's man : GENT
19
Movers : VANS
20
Quirky : ODD
21
Impressive achievement : TOURDEFORCE
24
Sorbonne, e.g. : ECOLE
26
Tire channel : RUT
27
Peer, to his servant : MILORD
29
Plant with a medicinal root : GINSENG
33
More than peeved : IRATE
34
Charles's domain : WALES
35
Hemispheric assn. : OAS
37
Ready to come off the stove : DONE
38
Examined, as before a robbery : CASED
39
Skip : OMIT
40
Business mag : INC
41
Lawn : GRASS
42
"The Taming of the Shrew" setting : PADUA
43
Spy's byword : SECRECY
45
Police datum : ARREST
46
Assistance : AID
47
Like toast : CRISP
48
Final stroke : COUPDEGRACE
53
Fate : LOT
56
The "A" in A.D. : ANNO
57
Film ___ : NOIR
58
Pan-fry : SAUTE
60
Harness part : REIN
61
Gusto : ZEST
62
Greek satirist : TIMON
63
These may be fine : ARTS
64
On the main : ASEA
65
Driving hazard : SLEET
Down
1
Cuatro y cuatro : OCHO
2
N.F.L. receiver Biletnikoff : FRED
3
Tropical viper : FERDELANCE
4
Bastille Day season : ETE
5
Give back : RESTORE
6
World Court site, with "The" : HAGUE
7
Finished : OVER
8
Thoreau subject : POND
9
Confined, as in wartime : INTERNED
10
Give, as time : DEVOTE
11
Gen. Bradley : OMAR
12
Over-the-counter cold remedy : ZINC
13
Otherwise : ELSE
22
Aged : OLD
23
Ado : FUSS
25
___ d'Azur (French Riviera) : COTE
27
Certain skirt : MIDI
28
Actor Jeremy : IRONS
29
Long-winded : GASSY
30
Nouvelle Caledonie and others : ILES
31
Pseudonym : NOMDEPLUME
32
Julius Caesar's first name : GAIUS
34
W.W. II enlistee : WAAC
36
Immediately, in the E.R. : STAT
38
Sideboard : CREDENZA
39
Sculls : OARS
41
Part of a crossword : GRID
42
Clergymen : PRIESTS
44
Poultry offerings : CAPONS
45
Compass tracing : ARC
47
Magna ___ : CARTA
48
Dear, as a signorina : CARA
49
Unique person : ONER
50
Military group : UNIT
51
"Anything ___" (1934 or 1987 musical) : GOES
52
Levitate : RISE
54
Siouan tribe : OTOE
55
Camp shelter : TENT
59
Be sick : AIL

Answer summary:
3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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