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New York Times, Saturday, June 24, 1995

Author:
Bob & Sharon Klahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
13-Across : Toughening (up)
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
601/29/19945/22/201110
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1313121426
CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.5746577%
Bob Klahn
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
32/2/199510/17/19993
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1000101
ScrabDebutFresh
1.673870%
Sharon Klahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {FQXZ} This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Klahn. This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Klahn. Saturday freshness: 35%
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W
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© 1995, The New York Times6/24/95 ( No. 16,664 )
Across
1
N.F.L. perfect-season coach : SHULA
6
Magnum effort : OPUS
10
Venomous varmint : ASP
13
Toughening (up) : TONING
15
One of Orson's exes : RITA
16
Kind of camera, briefly : SLR
17
Subject of this puzzle, born 6/24/1895 : JACKDEMPSEY
19
Hotfoot it : HIE
20
Early film star Charles ___ : OGLE
21
Capital of Okinawa : NAHA
22
Coasts : SLEDS
24
How some see : EYETOEYE
26
Sushi chef's needs : KNIVES
27
On the fritz : OUT
28
Lincoln, for one : UNIONIST
30
Humorist Shriner : WIL
33
Stubborn : CUSSED
35
Precollege : ELHI
36
Spider woman : ARACHNE
38
Half a Faulkner title : ABSALOM
40
Disquiet : ROIL
41
Stinger : NETTLE
43
"Concentration" pronoun : EWE
44
Native : INDIGENE
46
Jeep, e.g.: Abbr. : ATV
48
Buffer, in a way : SHAMMY
49
Fast in the water : ANCHORED
54
Whence the phrase "They shall reap the whirlwind" : HOSEA
55
Expedition : TREK
56
Kaneohe event : LUAU
57
Joseph Lincoln book "Cap'n ___" : ERI
58
17-Across dethroned him on 7/14/19 : JESSWILLARD
61
60's turn-on : LSD
62
Chekhov lady : OLGA
63
First woman to swim the English Channel : EDERLE
64
"I'm Sorry" singer : LEE
65
Director Martin : RITT
66
Gettysburg general George : SYKES
Down
1
Missouri city, locally : STJOE
2
Grinder : HOAGY
3
Creon, to Antigone : UNCLE
4
Almost, in dialect : LIKETO
5
Bonding agent : AND
6
Stravinsky-Balanchine ballet : ORPHEUS
7
Council of ___, 1409 : PISA
8
___ Pass, near Pikes Peak : UTE
9
Refuses : SAYSNO
10
Thomas Wolfe's birthplace : ASHEVILLE
11
Travelogoue, perhaps : SLIDESHOW
12
Deadline for some : PRESSTIME
14
He dethroned 17-Across on 9/23/26 : GENETUNNEY
18
Conditional word : MAY
23
Tax form part : LINEA
25
Smart remark? : OUCH
26
First alias of 17-Across : KIDBLACKIE
29
Trig : NEAT
30
Sherman assertion : WARISHELL
31
Locomotive : IRONHORSE
32
Saved : LAIDASIDE
34
Surveyed : SEEN
37
Region : CLIME
39
Cabot Cove's Dr. ___ Hazlitt : SETH
42
Afflicts : TEARSAT
45
Key of Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" : GMAJOR
47
Barrage : VOLLEY
50
Just in or out : NEW
51
"Uhuru" author Robert : RUARK
52
"G.E. College Bowl" host : EARLE
53
Dandies : DUDES
55
Air Force NCO : TSGT
59
Clockmaker Terry : ELI
60
Mormons, initially : LDS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 11 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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