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New York Times, Wednesday, June 2, 1999

Author:
Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Across : Capitol toothpaste?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
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1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 30 for Ms. Salomon. Wednesday freshness: 10%
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© 1999, The New York Times6/2/99 ( No. 18,103 )
Across
1
"ER" doctor : ROSS
5
Hogwash : BUNK
9
Storied royal elephant : BABAR
14
Course akin to Physiol. : ANAT
15
Ever's partner : ANON
16
Info from Webster's : USAGE
17
Where Singaraja is : BALI
18
"All ___" : RISE
19
Wiped out : TIRED
20
Toothpaste sold in Hollywood? : AIMFORTHESTARS
23
Odds and ends : TRIFLES
24
Crooner Bennett : TONY
25
Big fat zero : NIL
26
Drudge : PEON
28
Recipient of many a televised "Hi" : MOM
31
Israeli desert : NEGEV
34
Big rig : SEMI
35
A bit : SOME
36
Toothpaste ad art? : CLOSEUPPICTURES
39
Impressionist works : OILS
40
History : PAST
41
Detroit's Joe Louis ___ : ARENA
42
Regrettable : SAD
43
Vino region : ASTI
44
Lao-___ : TSE
45
It may be stolen : BASE
47
Finishes a suit : SETTLES
51
Capitol toothpaste? : CRESTOFTHEHILL
54
France's longest river : LOIRE
55
Therapeutic plant : ALOE
56
1985 film "To Live and Die ___" : INLA
57
Bibliography abbr. : OPCIT
58
Whistler's whistle : TUNE
59
Rheinland rejection : NEIN
60
Send-offs of a sort : WAKES
61
Kind of pearl : SEED
62
Dharma's guy : GREG
Down
1
Capital on the Atlantic : RABAT
2
Broadcasting : ONAIR
3
Actor Albert : SALMI
4
Starch : STIFFNESS
5
Monkey holder? : BARREL
6
Courseload : UNITS
7
Have some chips, say : NOSH
8
Cap locale : KNEE
9
Means of control : BUTTON
10
Kind of flu : ASIAN
11
Classic name on stage : BARRYMORE
12
A long, long time : AGES
13
Lobsterlike : RED
21
Greenish : OLIVE
22
Like Zeno : STOIC
26
"Gotta have it" sloganeer : PEPSI
27
Send forth : EMIT
29
Foreshadow : OMEN
30
City west of Apache Junction : MESA
31
Sgts. and cpls. : NCOS
32
"Essays of ___" : ELIA
33
Shirk : GOLDBRICK
34
Quarrel : SPAT
35
"No problem!" : SURETHING
37
Having a cow : UPSET
38
Refinement : TASTE
43
Diligence, a winning smile, etc. : ASSETS
44
Snickered : TEHEED
46
Home with a view : AERIE
47
Driveway type : STONE
48
Purse item : LINER
49
"Dallas" Miss : ELLIE
50
Loose talk? : SLANG
51
"At the ___" (1978 song phrase) : COPA
52
Rolled items : OATS
53
Air duct : FLUE
54
Blue : LOW

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

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