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New York Times, Friday, July 5, 1996

Author:
M. Gaffney
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Across : Spot
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
587/24/19949/6/20001
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1401615157
ScrabDebutFresh
1.6152461%
Matt Gaffney

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {FJKPQX} This is puzzle # 25 for Mr. Gaffney. Friday freshness: 60%
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© 1996, The New York Times7/5/96 ( No. 17,041 )
Across
1
1984 sci-fi film : STARMAN
8
Snafu : BIGMESS
15
Catherine the great was one : TSARINA
16
Where Al Capone went to prison : ATLANTA
17
Appellate court orders : REMANDS
18
Use as a base : STANDON
19
Clique member : ELITIST
20
Covering ground : SODDING
21
G.O.P. consultant Roger : AILES
22
Name in 1995 news : ITO
24
Word with time or life : SAVER
25
Moon over Munchen : MOND
26
It keeps Rover from roving : LEASH
28
"Tootsie" co-star for Dustin : TERI
29
Sault___Marie : STE
30
Neighborhood sign word : LOST
31
"Battleship Potemkin" locale : ODESSA
33
Gunk : GOO
34
Is afflicted by : HAS
35
Freshen : AIROUT
38
Desert Storm terror : SCUD
40
To be, in Buenos Aires : SER
43
Bring (out) : TROT
44
Kind of heat : STEAM
46
Presage : BODE
47
1988 skating gold medalist Gustafson : TOMAS
49
Headline with an exclamation point : WAR
50
Spot : LOCUS
51
Befuddled : INADAZE
53
"West Side Story" song : AMERICA
55
Sea cow : MANATEE
56
Get set : CONGEAL
57
Swellhead : EGOTIST
58
Mickey Mouse Club name : ANNETTE
59
Common speeding speed : SEVENTY
60
Agrees : SAYSYES
Down
1
Currents : STREAMS
2
"Murder in the Cathedral" writer : TSELIOT
3
"Enchanted Places" memoir subject : AAMILNE
4
Like "Pulp Fiction" : RRATED
5
60's attire : MINIS
6
No ifs,___or buts : ANDS
7
Unpleasant folk : NASTIES
8
Choir section : BASSOS
9
"Tell___the judge" : ITTO
10
Certain garden flowers, for short : GLADS
11
Requires : MANDATES
12
Salad greens : ENDIVES
13
Some assailants : STONERS
14
Drink in a pitcher : SANGRIA
23
Retribution object : TAT
26
Sacks : LOOTS
27
Causing ennui : HOHUM
30
Actor Jacobi : LOU
32
Lead-in for gum : DAD
33
Prepared for the prom : GOTADATE
35
Now and then : ATTIMES
36
Archeologist's period : IRONAGE
37
Bygone dynasty name : ROMANOV
38
Overwhelming amount : SEA
39
Simon Bolivar's birthplace : CARACAS
40
Glitterati : SOCIETY
41
School : EDUCATE
42
Some transactions : RESALES
45
Sylvester's would-be prey : TWEETY
46
Celebrated Argentine writer : BORGES
48
Protested, 1960's-style : SATIN
50
Comic Bruce : LENNY
52
Animation : ZEST
54
Novelist Simpson : MONA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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