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New York Times, Monday, July 13, 1998

Author:
Bill Ballard
Editor:
Will Shortz
62-Across : First number in season records
TotalDebutLatest
102/24/19984/13/2004
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0342100
ScrabDebutFresh
1.573620%
Bill Ballard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Ballard. Monday freshness: 37%
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© 1998, The New York Times7/13/98 ( No. 17,779 )
Across
1
More than dislike : ABHOR
6
Big name in computer games : SEGA
10
Fish from Dover : SOLE
14
Be loud, as a radio : BLARE
15
Cawer : CROW
16
Let ___ a secret : INON
17
Write without a single mistake : BELETTERPERFECT
20
Cosmonauts, by definition : RUSSIANS
21
Perfume essence : ATTAR
22
Phone no. at the office : EXT
23
Letters starting naval carrier names : USS
25
With 28-Down, a university in Dixie : OLE
26
Cass Elliot was one of them : MAMAS
30
Watering holes : SPAS
31
Kimono sashes : OBIS
32
1961 Best Actor Maximilian : SCHELL
34
British rule in colonial India : RAJ
37
Not play it safe : PUSHTHEENVELOPE
40
Ave. crossers : STS
41
NaI, e.g., chemically : IODIDE
42
Poems of praise : ODES
43
Look surreptitiously : PEEK
44
Search : QUEST
45
Prefix with cycle : UNI
48
6-pt. scores : TDS
49
Sigma follower : TAU
51
Spotted pony : PINTO
53
Sunrise and sunset locales : HORIZONS
58
61
Sea eagle : ERNE
62
First number in season records : WINS
63
French pupil : ELEVE
64
High schooler : TEEN
65
Like custards : EGGY
66
Called one's bluff : DARED
Down
1
Shortened form, in shortened form : ABBR
2
___ cheese dressing : BLEU
3
Dutch artist Frans : HALS
4
Mined metals : ORES
5
Knots again : RETIES
6
Bloodhound's trail : SCENT
7
Goofs : ERRS
8
Opposition for Dems. : GOP
9
Wonderment : AWE
10
Refine, as flour : SIFT
11
"And ___ grow on" : ONETO
12
Hometown-related : LOCAL
13
___ nous : ENTRE
18
I.R.S.'s share : TAX
19
Grapple (with), colloquially : RASSLE
23
Overturn : UPEND
24
Soothing ointment : SALVE
26
Swabs : MOPS
27
Adjoin : ABUT
28
See 25-Across : MISS
29
Baseball wood : ASH
30
Valentino title role, with "the" : SHEIK
32
Covered the foot : SHOED
33
Yields : CEDES
34
Went on horseback : RODE
35
King Kong and others : APES
36
It's said with a poke in the ribs : JEST
38
First-rate : TIPTOP
39
Cardinals great Brock : LOU
44
In sets of 24 sheets : QUIRED
45
Come-from-behind victory : UPSET
46
Saltpeter: Brit. : NITRE
47
Silly : INANE
49
She said "I 'spect I growed" : TOPSY
50
Dadaism founder : ARP
52
Govt. agents : TMEN
53
Be suspended : HANG
54
French novelist Émile : ZOLA
55
"Roger, ___ and out!" : OVER
56
Central church area : NAVE
57
Winter toy : SLED
59
Be indebted to : OWE
60
Not worth a ___ : FIG

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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