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New York Times, Thursday, July 18, 1996

Author:
W. R. Williams
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Across : Specious debater
TotalDebutLatest
384/30/19943/5/1998
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44312843
RebusScrabDebutFresh
21.5516243%
Wayne Robert Williams

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 31 for Mr. Williams. Thursday freshness: 41%
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© 1996, The New York Times7/18/96 ( No. 17,054 )
Across
1
First course, maybe : SOUP
5
Mans : STAFFS
11
Kind of site : WEB
14
About 30 (percent) of the earth : ASIA
15
"Anybody ho-o-ome?" : HALLOO
16
Car m.p.g. raters : EPA
17
"Hee Haw" comedienne : MINNIEPEARL
19
Cave-dwelling fish : EEL
20
Second-brightest stars : BETAS
21
Stormed : ATTACKED
23
What Jesus spoke : ARAMAIC
26
High school class, informally : ECON
27
Broad ties : ASCOTS
30
Architect Jones : INIGO
33
Tough turkeys : TOMS
36
Take___(accept congratulations) : ABOW
37
Israeli desert : NEGEV
38
Health care lobby: Abbr. : AMA
39
Chicken___ : ALAKING
41
Otto I's realm: Abbr. : HRE
42
London cricket ground : LORDS
44
Vega's constellation : LYRA
45
W.W. II gun : STEN
46
Risible : COMIC
47
Ancient Mexican : TOLTEC
49
Farm field, maybe : ACRE
51
Specious debater : SOPHIST
55
Amber wines : MADEIRAS
59
Home of the biblical city Ephesus : IONIA
60
Flightless bird : EMU
61
Noted Swiss item : BANKACCOUNT
64
No-good ending : NIK
65
Yupik speaker : ESKIMO
66
Case for a vet : LICE
67
Presidential monogram : DDE
68
Salt : SEADOG
69
Associate: Suffix : STER
Down
1
Afro-Brazilian dance : SAMBA
2
Willow switch : OSIER
3
Range of the Rockies : UINTA
4
Straw hats : PANAMAS
5
Word for a storm : SHE
6
Choose : TAP
7
Epithet of Athena : ALEA
8
Not increasing, as earnings : FLAT
9
Loud : FORTE
10
Comforting : SOLACING
11
Traditional homework time : WEEKNIGHT
12
Sporting sword : EPEE
13
Coming out on top? : BALD
18
"A miss___good..." : ISAS
22
Volcano's shape : CONE
24
Suffix with egotist : ICAL
25
Shade of blue : COBALT
28
Godzilla's target : TOKYO
29
Ice cream features : SWIRLS
31
Actor Richard : GERE
32
Kind of mitt : OVEN
33
Drying powder : TALC
34
Melville novel : OMOO
35
The Winslows' family dog : MARMADUKE
39
Imputes : ASCRIBES
40
Org. whose symbol is a four-pointed compass : NATO
43
Reno cubes : DICE
45
Teaches : SCHOOLS
48
Big story : EPIC
50
Expunge : ERASE
52
Preferred term for 65-Across : INUIT
53
Until now : SINCE
54
Starchy food, informally : TATER
55
Repair : MEND
56
In the center of : AMID
57
"You Are My Destiny" singer : ANKA
58
Slide sideways : SKID
62
Latin 101 word : AMO
63
Wheel part : COG

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

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