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New York Times, Wednesday, July 4, 2001

Author:
John Beck
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Across : 50.1%+
TotalDebut
17/4/2001
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0001000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.6919%
John Beck

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FQZ} Spans: 3 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Beck. Wednesday freshness: 9%
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© 2001, The New York Times7/4/1 ( No. 18,866 )
Across
1
Aerobic bit : STEP
5
Managing, with "out" : EKING
10
Leader in a beret : CHE
13
Stay in the closet, say : HIDE
14
Written record : ANNAL
15
Classic detective : CHAN
16
Strange-sounding city? : ERIE
17
First territorial capital of Alaska : SITKA
18
Posterior : HIND
19
Start of a patriotic sports trio : DETROITREDWINGS
22
Many a storm : SHE
23
Anthropologist Fossey : DIAN
24
More, in Managua : MAS
27
Warmonger : ARES
30
"Juno and the Paycock" writer : OCASEY
34
Actor Werner of "Ship of Fools" : OSKAR
36
Salt, to a chemist : NACL
38
F.D.R.'s mother : SARA
39
Middle of a patriotic sports trio : CHICAGOWHITESOX
42
Mr., in Munich : HERR
43
Important wine region : ASTI
44
Operatic villains, often : BASSI
45
Capers : ANTICS
47
Number of sides on an "alto" sign : OCHO
49
Word on a Ouija board : YES
50
50.1%+ : MOST
52
Singleton : ONE
54
Ironically, end of a patriotic sports trio : TORONTOBLUEJAYS
62
Rack's partner : RUIN
63
Approves : OKAYS
64
"Tickle Me" boy : ELMO
65
Unctuous : OILY
66
"From the Earth to the Moon" writer : VERNE
67
Kind of leaves : COCA
68
Designer monogram : YSL
69
Paradises : EDENS
70
Furniture wood : TEAK
Down
1
Tool site : SHED
2
Spare item : TIRE
3
Modify : EDIT
4
They might cause pressure : PEERS
5
Simpler : EASIER
6
Make bootees, say : KNIT
7
Foreword: Abbr. : INTR
8
In an embarrassing position, maybe : NAKED
9
Colorful, spiky flowers : GLADIOLI
10
It may be stroked : CHIN
11
"___ it all!" : HANG
12
Completes : ENDS
15
Taiwan is in it : CHINASEA
20
Butler's companion? : OHARA
21
W.W. II female : WAC
24
Coffee flavor : MOCHA
25
Pale : ASHEN
26
Avoid : SKIRT
28
Baseball's Slaughter : ENOS
29
Tended : SAWTO
31
Bygone teen magazine : SASSY
32
Notched, as a leaf : EROSE
33
Vertical graph component : YAXIS
35
Bitterness : ACRIMONY
37
In : CHIC
40
Kitchen appliance : GASSTOVE
41
Hearty entree : TBONE
46
Jailbird : CON
48
Two halves of Congress : HOUSES
51
Puffed, illegally : TOKED
53
Walkman button : EJECT
54
Priam's home : TROY
55
French accords? : OUIS
56
Brook : RILL
57
Reveal : BARE
58
Boston suburb : LYNN
59
Medicinal juice : ALOE
60
Gym site : YMCA
61
Drunkard : SOAK

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

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