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New York Times, Tuesday, July 15, 1997

Author:
Frank Longo
Editor:
Will Shortz
33-Across : Complicated situations
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Frank Longo

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQZ} Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 25 for Mr. Longo. Tuesday freshness: 27%
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© 1997, The New York Times7/15/97 ( No. 17,416 )
Across
1
Top piece of a two-piece : BRA
4
Italian seaport : SALERNO
11
Timber wood : ASH
14
"Alley ___" : OOP
15
Zoom-in shot : CLOSEUP
16
Chinese principle : TAO
17
Sex determinant : XCHROMOSOME
19
___ rampage : ONA
20
Ready to go : ONTAP
21
Taste test label : BRANDX
23
200 milligrams, to a jeweler : CARAT
25
Funnyman Philips : EMO
28
Not have ___ in the world : ACARE
29
Spinks defeater, 1978 : ALI
30
Parallel bar exercises : DIPS
32
Not nude : CLAD
33
Complicated situations : MESSES
37
Debussy contemporary : SATIE
39
Treasure hunter's declaration : XMARKSTHESPOT
43
Pen : WRITE
44
Parti-colored : MOTLEY
46
Quite the expert : BUFF
49
Having conflicting allegiances : TORN
51
___ du Diable : ILE
52
Kind of fool : APRIL
54
Wood splitter : AXE
55
Quite the expert : MAVEN
57
For adults only : XRATED
59
Tickle one's fancy : AMUSE
61
Play (with) : TOY
62
Twenty-somethings : GENERATIONX
67
Jargon suffix : ESE
68
Earth, wind or fire : ELEMENT
69
Squid secretion : INK
70
Texas-Oklahoma boundary river : RED
71
Tennis volleys : RETURNS
72
Gypsy Rose ___ : LEE
Down
1
Word with band or sand : BOX
2
Dutton's sitcom role : ROC
3
"Art is long, life is short," e.g. : APHORISM
4
Astronaut Carpenter : SCOTT
5
Soprano Gluck : ALMA
6
Blotto : LOOPED
7
Suffix with lion : ESS
8
Rock's ___ Speedwagon : REO
9
Feeling the effects of Novocaine : NUMB
10
"Don Giovanni," for one : OPERA
11
Like Schoenberg's music : ATONAL
12
Bullock of "Speed" : SANDRA
13
Took in, in a way : HOAXED
18
Genetic stuff : RNA
22
Say "yes" to : ACCEPT
23
Auto shaft, slangily : CAM
24
"Family Ties" boy : ALEX
26
Anonymous man : MISTERX
27
Moonfish : OPAH
31
Fruit/tree connector : STEM
34
Deemed appropriate : SAWFIT
35
Miscalculate : ERR
36
"In Living Color" segment : SKIT
38
Prefix with propyl : ISO
40
Greek portico : STOA
41
Salad dressing ingredient : OLIVEOIL
42
Boob tube, in Britain: Var. : TELE
45
Hankering : YEN
46
Bandleader Les : BAXTER
47
Revolted : UPROSE
48
Not neat at the ends : FRAYED
50
More imminent : NEARER
53
Pioneer in Cubism : LEGER
55
Fido and friends : MUTTS
56
"___ recall..." : ASI
58
Take out : DELE
60
"Buddenbrooks" novelist Thomas : MANN
63
Surfing site : NET
64
Big bird : EMU
65
Opposite SSW : NNE
66
Classic Jaguar : XKE

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

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