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New York Times, Monday, July 29, 1996

Author:
F. Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
60-Across : ___d'oeuvres
TotalDebutLatest
15411/22/19939/1/2024
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.5550233%
Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JKQVZ} This is puzzle # 20 for Mr. Piscop. Monday freshness: 63%
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© 1996, The New York Times7/29/96 ( No. 17,065 )
Across
1
Islamic leader : IMAM
5
Madrid museum : PRADO
10
"___reminds me..." : THAT
14
Chess finale : MATE
15
Eagle's claw : TALON
16
Half nelson or full nelson, e.g. : HOLD
17
Set up camp : PITCHATENT
19
Singer Redding : OTIS
20
Biographee B. Toklas : ALICE
21
Grew suddenly : SHOTUP
23
Like terra-cotta tiles : CERAMIC
26
"___Miss Brooks" : OUR
27
Boy : LAD
30
Uno + due : TRE
31
Parties : DOS
33
R-rated, as humor : RIBALD
35
Spanish airline : IBERIA
38
Composer Erik : SATIE
39
42
Peninsula in 1967 fighting : SINAI
43
Impolite criticisms : SNIPES
44
Like Scrooge : STINGY
46
Stubborn one : ASS
47
Hula-Hoops, once : FAD
50
Jiffy : SEC
51
Rooster's partner : HEN
53
Chinese Water Torture Cell inventor : HOUDINI
56
Beginning : OUTSET
59
Venom, for one : TOXIN
60
___d'oeuvres : HORS
62
Lose on purpose : THROWAGAME
65
Whetstone : HONE
66
Eat into : ERODE
67
___-Tass news agency : ITAR
68
"Bonanza" role : HOSS
69
Ancient letters : RUNES
70
Wriggly fish : EELS
Down
1
Collision : IMPACT
2
Handy postal container : MAILER
3
Garments : ATTIRE
4
Goal of a Muslim pilgrimage : MECCA
5
School org. : PTA
6
Fink (on) : RAT
7
Pub potables : ALES
8
Hawaiian entertainer : DONHO
9
Traveling, as a musical group : ONTOUR
10
Ten C-notes : THOU
11
Ministove : HOTPLATE
12
Three-time Frazier foe : ALI
13
Six-pointers, for short : TDS
18
Skirt's bottom : HEM
22
Melancholy : TRISTE
24
"What's the big___?" : IDEA
25
Toes' woes : CORNS
28
Landed : ALIT
29
H.S.T.'s successor : DDE
32
Loudonville, N.Y., college : SIENA
34
Contemptuous comments : BAHS
35
Where Tabriz is : IRAN
36
Dilapidation : BLIGHT
37
Gorillalike : APISH
39
1976 best seller "The___Report" : HITE
40
Mythical beasts : UNICORNS
41
___facto : IPSO
42
Draft org. : SSS
45
Prefix with day or year : YESTER
47
Obsess (on) : FIXATE
48
Twenty Questions category : ANIMAL
49
Greasy spoons : DINERS
52
India's first P.M. : NEHRU
54
Actress Hagen : UTA
55
In song, one that needs to "git along" : DOGIE
57
"A thousand and one___" : USES
58
Jeff Bridges film of '82 : TRON
60
1968 election monogram : HHH
61
Tic-tac-toe win : OOO
63
"___to a Nightingale" : ODE
64
Jazzman Montgomery : WES

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

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