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New York Times, Thursday, June 26, 1997

Author:
Martin Ashwood-Smith
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : Start of an Erma Bombeck quip
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Martin Ashwood-Smith

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QU} This is puzzle # 18 for Mr. Ashwood-Smith. Thursday freshness: 45%
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© 1997, The New York Times6/26/97 ( No. 17,397 )
Across
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Historic introduction? : PRE
4
Clamorous : AROAR
9
Gothic architectural feature : GABLE
14
Grp. overseeing early reactors : AEC
15
Slowly : LARGO
16
Auriculate : EARED
17
Start of an Erma Bombeck quip : ICOMEFROM
19
"___ Honey Are You?" (Fats Waller hit) : WHOSE
20
Dey TV series : LALAW
21
Kind of wheels : MAG
23
He's a real doll : KEN
24
Rapper? : SPIRIT
26
Terrorize : MENACE
28
Quip, part 2 : AFAMILYWHERE
32
Dieter's no-no : FATTENER
35
___ operas (Gilbert and Sullivan works) : SAVOY
36
___ Jima : IWO
37
Quip, part 3 : GRAVY
40
First mate? : EVE
41
Rib-ticklers : JESTS
44
Set straight : NEATENED
47
Quip, part 4 : ISCONSIDERED
50
Actress Donohoe : AMANDA
51
Sticking point? : DAGGER
55
Ax : CAN
57
Crack or jack follower : POT
58
Twilled fabric : SERGE
59
Stomach ___ : ACIDS
61
End of the quip : ABEVERAGE
65
The merry widow in "The Merry Widow" : SONIA
66
"Aha!" : GOTIT
67
London Zoo feature? : ZED
68
'Mid : TWIXT
69
Trades : SWAPS
70
GQ staff, e.g. : EDS
Down
1
Barn items : PAILS
2
Summation : RECAP
3
Dangerous bacteria : ECOLI
4
Female member of the bar? : ALEWIFE
5
Churchill's "so few": Abbr. : RAF
6
Famous Bruin : ORR
7
Gone by : AGO
8
The Desert Fox : ROMMEL
9
Baubles : GEWGAWS
10
Word to a doctor : AAH
11
Covered costs : BROKEEVEN
12
___-majesté : LESE
13
Paradise lost : EDEN
18
Corday's victim, 1793 : MARAT
22
"___ luck?" : ANY
25
Astronauts' ade : TANG
26
Arrestee's rights, familiarly : MIRANDA
27
Half a dance : CHA
29
Debussy subject : MER
30
Gad about : ROVE
31
Got a load of : EYED
32
Suva is its capital : FIJI
33
Takes one's breath away : AWES
34
Longtime NBC Symphony conductor : TOSCANINI
38
Flight formation : VEE
39
Long spar : YARD
42
The piper's son : TOM
43
Rebukes sharply : SNAPSAT
45
Four o'clock services : TEASETS
46
Lawn tool : EDGER
48
___-Cat : SNO
49
Luggage necessities : IDTAGS
52
Nibble : GRAZE
53
Encouraged, with "on" : EGGED
54
Saxophonist's supply : REEDS
55
Ones going through a stage? : CAST
56
Have ___ (flip out) : ACOW
60
Fort ___, N.J. : DIX
62
Fiddle stick : BOW
63
LAX info : ETA
64
Kind of treatment : VIP

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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