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New York Times, Thursday, July 27, 2000

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
65-Across : Bait
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1418/26/19955/9/20241
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311092443303
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
331.591,23673%
Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 35 for Mr. DiPietro. Thursday freshness: 21%
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© 2000, The New York Times7/27/0 ( No. 18,524 )
Across
1
Rebounds, e.g. : STAT
5
Pioneer automaker : OLDS
9
Ill-prepared : UNSET
14
Word with Red or ant : ARMY
15
Galba's predecessor : NERO
16
"Lorenzo's Oil" star, 1992 : NOLTE
17
Chicken (out) : WIMP
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Clever accomplishment : COUP
19
Bakery goodie : SCONE
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Proceeds boldly : GOESRIGHTAHEAD
23
"Potent Potables for 200, ___" : ALEX
24
___ piece (consistent) : OFA
25
Adventurer played by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. : SINBAD
28
Approached : CAMENEAR
33
It's grounded : EMU
34
Golfer's accessory : VISOR
36
Muse of history : CLIO
37
Doesn't go in single file : WALKSTWOABREAST
41
Give the look to : OGLE
42
To whom a fakir prays : ALLAH
43
Mom's specialty, for short : TLC
44
Some plastic surgery : NOSEJOBS
47
Seychelles money : RUPEES
49
Part of a price : PER
50
Top : ACME
51
Shows shock : GETSTAKENABACK
58
"Golden Boy" playwright : ODETS
59
Jerusalem's Mosque of ___ : OMAR
60
Result of a dam, perhaps : POND
62
Go together : AGREE
63
Drop : OMIT
64
Word to a C.B. operator : OVER
65
Bait : TEMPT
66
"It Was a Lover and His ___" (old song standard) : LASS
67
Damp : DEWY
Down
1
Prop for a magician's trick : SAW
2
Kind of function : TRIG
3
It's found in a round : AMMO
4
Rare blood designation : TYPEAB
5
One way to buy things : ONCREDIT
6
Pope who created the Schism of 1054 : LEOIX
7
Regulated item : DRUG
8
Certain student, for short : SOPH
9
Wobbly, say : UNSAFE
10
"Impossible" : NOCHANCE
11
___-eyed : SLOE
12
Peak in Catania province : ETNA
13
Put down one's ball : TEED
21
Poles, e.g. : SLAVS
22
Name repeated in a nursery rhyme : TOM
25
Attach, as a patch : SEWON
26
Adult insect : IMAGO
27
Cancels : NULLS
28
Relaxes, with "down" : COOLS
29
Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL
30
Send : ELATE
31
Window alternative : AISLE
32
Univ. military programs : ROTCS
35
Clear the deck? : SWAB
38
Maintain the pace : KEEPSTEP
39
Mixed drink servers : BARCARTS
40
Any point on a mariner's compass : RHUMB
45
Hardly stay-at-homes : JETSET
46
___ pro nobis : ORA
48
It may be shelled : PEAPOD
50
First name in diaries : ANAIS
51
Kind of cheese : GOAT
52
Leg up : EDGE
53
___ limit : TERM
54
Brown & Williamson brand : KOOL
55
Flaubert heroine : EMMA
56
Sheltered spot : COVE
57
Understood : KNEW
61
Like some wines : DRY

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later.

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