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New York Times, Friday, June 27, 1997

Author:
Dean Niles
Editor:
Will Shortz
67-Across : Exams
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Dean Niles

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQWZ} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 15 for Mr. Niles. Friday freshness: 29%
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© 1997, The New York Times6/27/97 ( No. 17,398 )
Across
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Some clauses : ESCALATORS
11
Pond dross : SCUM
15
College in 1995 headlines : THECITADEL
16
Account : TALE
17
Unconventional ideas : HETERODOXY
18
Kennedy Center focus : ARTS
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Fine and dandy, in old slang : OKE
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On ___ with : APAR
21
French crowd? : TROIS
22
Slobodan Milosevic, e.g. : SERB
24
Like the surface of Mars : SERE
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John's "Pulp Fiction" co-star : UMA
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Stockpiled : LAIDIN
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Chest muscle : PEC
33
What spirits may do : SAG
34
Total : DEMOLISH
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Summer abroad : ETE
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Axioms serving as starting points : FIRSTPRINCIPLES
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What I may mean : ONE
42
"The Joy of Cooking" author : ROMBAUER
43
Mail abbr. : RFD
44
Simile center : ASA
45
Wound : LESION
48
Date for Dizzy : GIG
49
Spanish novelist who won a 1989 Nobel : CELA
51
1980's police comedy : ENOS
53
Language that gave us "kayak" : INUIT
55
Polish export : COAL
59
Speck : DOT
60
Ampule's kin : VIAL
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Site of the Woodrow Wilson Sch. of Public and Intl. Affairs : PRINCETONU
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Basic French verb : ETRE
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Preserved oral history, e.g. : AUDIOTAPED
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Jazz drummer Catlett et al. : SIDS
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Exams : TESTPAPERS
Down
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Greek character? : ETHOS
2
Foreign currency : SHEKEL
3
The rest : CETERA
4
One with perfect pitch? : ACE
5
Foreign currency : LIRA
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Over : ATOP
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"There!" : TADA
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Osmics is the study of these : ODORS
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Sergeant Preston's horse : REX
10
Rocky, really : SLY
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Antares, for one : STAR
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"If I Loved You" musical : CAROUSEL
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Eventual : ULTIMATE
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E-mail : MESSAGES
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Computer experts, e.g. : TECHIES
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They may be made in clubs : BIDS
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French city on the Moselle : EPINAL
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Deliver : RESCUE
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Take away : DETRACT
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Horn in (on) : IMPOSE
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Standard : NORMAL
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Canadian pol. party : LIB
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Excuses : FORGIVES
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Q45, e.g. : INFINITI
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60's militant : REDGUARD
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___-dieu : PRIE
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High, in a way : ONDOPE
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Midday event : NOONER
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They have low pH's : ACIDS
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Harness features : STUDS
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Mer sights : ILES
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"Get ___!" (boss's order) : ONIT
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1988 film "Rent-___" : ACOP
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"___ joy keep you": Sandburg : LETA
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Show of support : PAT
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Herb of grace : RUE
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Keep time : TAP

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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