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New York Times, Thursday, August 19, 1999

Author:
Cathy Millhauser
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : Aggressive, competitive person from Taiwan's capital?
TotalDebutLatest
881/26/19925/15/2011
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Cathy Allis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {VW} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 56 for Ms. Allis. Thursday freshness: 62%
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© 1999, The New York Times8/19/99 ( No. 18,181 )
Across
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Tuft on a tam : POMPOM
7
Weight : HEFT
11
Be up : BAT
14
Roughly : AROUND
15
Northern capital : OSLO
16
Hurry-scurry : ADO
17
Aggressive, competitive person from Taiwan's capital? : TAIPEITYPEA
19
Hirsute Tibetan : YAK
20
Zhou ___ : ENLAI
21
TV actress ___ Elias : ALIX
22
Video game name : SEGA
23
Result of a card player's dinner spill? : ENTREEONTREY
26
Data: Abbr. : INF
29
Beloved comic, familiarly : COS
30
Sturdy cart : DRAY
31
Issue a Shetland denial? : NEIGHNAE
34
Printing woes : BLOTS
38
___ vu : DEJA
39
Occasional suffix on political titles : ELECT
42
Sound in an empty room : ECHO
43
Loathing : ODIUM
45
Name for a ballpark restaurant? : CHEZSHEA
47
___ Grande, Ariz. : CASA
50
Crack : ACE
51
Undermine : SAP
52
Dance move done with a perfumed bag? : SACHETSASHAY
57
Part of qq.v. (which see) : QUAE
58
Omar of "Scream 2" : EPPS
59
Kind of beer : LAGER
63
Coffee ___ : URN
64
Poet's "Long live composer Gabriel!"? : FAUREFORAYE
66
Follower of Christ? : IAN
67
Hungary's ___ Nagy : IMRE
68
Dived (for) : LUNGED
69
Global traveler Nellie : BLY
70
Bar selection : RYES
71
Size up : ASSESS
Down
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Crown : PATE
2
Setting for Camus's "The Plague" : ORAN
3
Drudge : MOIL
4
Cocoon dwellers : PUPAE
5
Lumber thickness, maybe : ONEINCH
6
Year that Michelangelo began work on "David" : MDI
7
Game expert : HOYLE
8
Saw : ESPIED
9
Limb-bending muscle : FLEXOR
10
___ fault : TOA
11
Tablet name : BAYER
12
Saw : ADAGE
13
Hungarian wine : TOKAY
18
Of the ankle : TARSAL
22
Does do's : STYLES
24
Color quality : TONE
25
Collar : NAB
26
___-European : INDO
27
Desideratum : NEED
28
Suva's country : FIJI
32
Inept : GAUCHE
33
Common Market: Abbr. : EEC
35
Phil of folk : OCHS
36
___-Team (this puzzle's theme?) : THEA
37
Bubble source : SOAP
40
Gliding step : CHASSE
41
Part of M.I.T.: Abbr. : TECH
44
Daisy ___ : MAE
46
Devoted : ZEALOUS
48
R-rated, maybe : STEAMY
49
Comparable to driven snow : ASPURE
52
Short news bit : SQUIB
53
Ear-related : AURAL
54
Shrewd : CANNY
55
___-ski : APRES
56
They're not to be believed : YARNS
60
"Eleni" author Nicholas : GAGE
61
Art appreciation duo? : EYES
62
Many wines : REDS
64
Balsam, for one : FIR
65
Neighbor of Ala. : FLA

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

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