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New York Times, Thursday, August 21, 1997

Author:
Martin Ashwood-Smith
Editor:
Will Shortz
62-Across : Nickels and dimes
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Martin Ashwood-Smith

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JKMQWXYZ} This is puzzle # 21 for Mr. Ashwood-Smith. Thursday freshness: 22%
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© 1997, The New York Times8/21/97 ( No. 17,453 )
Across
1
Road runners? : CARS
5
Make a move : ACT
8
Pastime : ESCAPE
14
Plaudits, of a sort : OLES
15
"___ any drop to drink": Coleridge : NOR
16
Went easy on : SPARED
17
Start of a quote : NOSTATUE
19
Snapper : TURTLE
20
Four, on the phone : GHI
21
Quote, part 2 : HASEVERBEEN
23
___ al-Khaimah (one of the United Arab Emirates) : RAS
24
Area of coll. study : SCI
25
Doo-wop part : ALTO
26
Point on Magellan's compass : ESTE
28
Summed up : INALL
30
Badgers : NAGS
34
Not tacit : STATED
36
Toot : BEEP
38
Aerialist's insurance : NET
39
Money lender, for short : SANDL
40
Quote, part 3 : PUT
41
Terra ___ : COTTA
43
Familiar substitution : ETC
44
Holding steady : FLAT
46
St. Francis's home : ASSISI
47
Exude : SEEP
49
It may involve gas : ARSON
51
Have words (with) : SPAR
52
Russo of "Ransom" : RENE
54
Educ. group : PTA
56
Miltonian sea creature : ORC
57
End of the quote : UPTOACRITIC
61
Mauna ___ : LOA
62
Nickels and dimes : CHANGE
63
Source of the quote : SIBELIUS
65
Warehouse worker, at times : LIFTER
66
Hotel sign : ICE
67
Bad spots? : ACNE
68
Noted Titanic couple : ASTORS
69
Puncture sound : SSS
70
Strata : BEDS
Down
1
Party places? : CONGRESSES
2
Hawaii : ALOHASTATE
3
Freedom fighters : RESISTANCE
4
Its business is booming : SST
5
Pepto-Bismol, e.g. : ANTACID
6
Term of familiarity : COUSIN
7
Leaves' home : TREE
8
English stage actress Winwood : ESTELLE
9
Jet : SPURT
10
Kind of copy : CARBON
11
Uffizi display : ARTE
12
Cosmos star : PELE
13
Carl Sagan's "The Dragons of ___" : EDEN
18
4th of July cries : AHS
22
Person with the keys : VALET
27
Train sta. posting : ETD
29
Borders : ABUTS
31
Unable to stand the heat? : ANTIPOLICE
32
Circulates : GETSAROUND
33
Ways up : STAIRCASES
35
Little one : ELF
37
Mac rivals : PCS
40
Certain knife : PARER
42
C.I.A.'s forerunner : OSS
45
Bygone regiment : LANCERS
46
Seaport southwest of Nice : ANTIBES
48
On the double : PRONTO
50
Branch of physics : OPTICS
53
Athirst : EAGER
55
Valuable diamond? : ACE
57
Bruins' home : UCLA
58
Greek characters : PHIS
59
Hotel in "The Graduate" : TAFT
60
Goddess of fertility : ISIS
64
Test place : LAB

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

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