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New York Times, Saturday, July 5, 1997

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
41-Across : Add more staff than
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JX} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 61 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 62%
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© 1997, The New York Times7/5/97 ( No. 17,406 )
Across
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Tolerate : STANDFOR
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Food item introduced in 1968 : BIGMAC
15
Trifling : PICAYUNE
16
Some computer keys : ARROWS
17
Got to : ACCESSED
18
Fairy tale heroine : GRETEL
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Bygone theaters : RKOS
20
Andrew Carnegie and Alexander Graham Bell, by birth : SCOTS
22
Chip maker : WISE
23
50's Reds star, familiarly : KLU
24
Some time in Toledo : ANO
25
Words to remember : VOW
26
Let use : LENT
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Uses a coaster, perhaps : SLEDS
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Tournament match : SEMI
31
Summerlike : ESTIVAL
33
Transfers, for a limited time, at law : DEMISES
35
Minimal measure : MIL
36
Kind of order : GAG
37
Handled easily, with "through" : BREEZED
41
Add more staff than : OUTHIRE
45
Split : REND
46
Big name in little books : MILNE
48
Crime-fighters, for short : TMEN
49
Summer clock setting: Abbr. : EDT
50
Tank : VAT
51
Bolt, perhaps : EAT
52
Ballantine and others : ALES
54
Many churchgoers: Abbr. : CATHS
56
Island named for a figure in Hindu myth : BALI
57
Unwelcome end, with "the" : KIBOSH
59
Greek : HELLENIC
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Spread, as hay : UNBALE
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Balance : EQUALIZE
63
Glimpse : PEEKAT
64
Having furrows : STRIATED
Down
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Vivacity : SPARKLE
2
"That ___!" : TICKLES
3
Rendering : ACCOUNT
4
Dundee denials : NAES
5
Bad: Prefix : DYS
6
Bother : FUSS
7
Detainee's privilege : ONECALL
8
Newly appointed : REDONE
9
Catches : BAGS
10
Sale abbr. : IRR
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Snowballed : GREW
12
Columbo concerns : MOTIVES
13
Beyond rad : AWESOME
14
"Perelandra" novelist : CSLEWIS
21
Thelma of "The Maltese Falcon," 1931 : TODD
27
Like many tests : TIMED
28
"The Crucible" setting : SALEM
29
Transition : SEGUE
30
Spectacle : SIGHT
32
Relative of "i.e." : VIZ
34
Tangle : MAT
37
Split : BREAKUP
38
Mark for cancellation : REDLINE
39
Town on Lake Victoria : ENTEBBE
40
Battle, e.g. : DIVA
41
Secretly : ONTHEQT
42
"Don't play with me!" : IMEANIT
43
Net : REALIZE
44
Drew : ENTICED
47
Carpentry tools : LATHES
53
Tarry in a tub : SOAK
54
Jazzman Baker : CHET
55
Score line : SLUR
56
Shannon's coach : BELA
58
1974 abduction grp. : SLA
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My ___ : LAI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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