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New York Times, Saturday, August 23, 1997

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
15-Across : Advantage, of a sort
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Missing: {BKQX} This is puzzle # 64 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 16%
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© 1997, The New York Times8/23/97 ( No. 17,455 )
Across
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Racecourse sections : STRAIGHTS
10
Sign of stagnation : ALGAE
15
Advantage, of a sort : HEADSTART
16
Imprudence : FOLLY
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Car with a dragon in its logo : ALFAROMEO
18
Without delay : APACE
19
1970's guerrilla grp. : SLA
20
Kind of school : SUMMER
22
Common PC file suffix : DAT
23
Abounds (with) : TEEMS
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Springs (for), slangily : POPS
27
Lance on a bench : ITO
28
Former TV host Sorkin : ARLEEN
30
LP's: Abbr. : RECS
32
Nickel in a pocket, say? : ORE
33
Station : STOP
35
Gloomy : DUN
36
Put : LAY
37
Antigone's mother : JOCASTA
40
More than esteem : IDOLIZE
42
Actress Merkel : UNA
43
Shaker Society founder Lee : ANN
44
One of Asta's masters : NORA
45
Quite a hgt. : MTN
46
Receptions : TEAS
48
Submit : SENDIN
52
Master's follower, maybe : PHD
53
A.B.A. members : ATTS
55
Candy manufacturer Harry : REESE
56
One of the Maritime Provinces: Abbr. : PEI
57
"Brighton Rock" author : GREENE
59
Farm mother : SOW
60
Up : ADDTO
62
Run away, perhaps : LEAVEHOME
65
Classical Spanish composer Antonio : SOLER
66
Drives away : ALIENATES
67
Chic : STYLE
68
Underestimate : SELLSHORT
Down
1
Cascades peak : SHASTA
2
Penn pal : TELLER
3
Baseball's Palmeiro : RAFAEL
4
City SSW of Tulsa : ADA
5
Leb. neighbor : ISR
6
Old cars with Turbo-Hydramatic gearboxes : GTOS
7
Publicly exaggerate, in slang : HAMUP
8
Shaking : TREMOR
9
Entered noisily : STOMPEDIN
10
Winston Churchill's "___ Country" : AFAR
11
Cut : LOP
12
Some irises : GLADIOLI
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Island with a view of the Golden Gate : ALCATRAZ
14
The same way : EYETOEYE
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Currency in Oporto : ESCUDOS
24
Costa ___ : MESA
25
Attacks : SETSAT
29
Removed : NOTNEAR
31
Wood sawer, so to speak : SNORER
34
Slim cigars : PANATELAS
37
Cager's maneuver : JUMPPASS
38
Punctually : ONTHEDOT
39
In plain English : CANDIDLY
41
Way : LANE
47
Actor Bob of "Of Mice and Men," 1939 : STEELE
49
Mississippi River explorer : DESOTO
50
One of chemically related compounds : ISOMER
51
Just out : NEWEST
54
Slowpoke : SNAIL
57
Murder and such : GORE
58
Notable name in derring-do : EVEL
61
___ el Amarna, Egyptian excavation site : TEL
63
Nav. rank : ENS
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"I doubt that!" : HAH

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

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