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New York Times, Tuesday, August 6, 1996

Author:
F. Heaney
Editor:
Will Shortz
49-Across : Leaves the office early?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
114/17/19968/16/20203
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
30142001
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
111.548261%
Francis Heaney

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Heaney. Tuesday freshness: 77%
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P
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© 1996, The New York Times8/6/96 ( No. 17,073 )
Across
1
Piano part : PEDAL
6
Trot and canter : GAITS
11
Jamaica-based music : SKA
14
Integra maker : ACURA
15
___ Joe's (classic sign) : EATAT
16
Tennis's Shriver : PAM
17
Camel rival : LUCKYSTRIKE
19
"___ we having fun yet?" : ARE
20
Linked, in a way : SIAMESE
21
Persia, today : IRAN
22
Hot mo. : AUG
25
Weekday: Abbr. : TUE
26
Gem sides : FACETS
28
Daze : STUPOR
30
Small piano : SPINET
32
Reveal : LETON
33
Whirling ones : DERVISHES
36
Johnson of "Laugh-In" : ARTE
37
Golfer with an army : ARNIE
38
Six: Prefix : HEXA
39
Banal bit of versification : POETICISM
41
Mushroom : MOREL
42
Gully : RAVINE
43
Do over : REWORK
44
Gave the wrong impression : MISLED
46
Shepherd's beckoning : BAA
47
Sot's woe : DTS
48
Novelist Tyler : ANNE
49
Leaves the office early? : RESIGNS
53
Schuss : SKI
54
Dairy Queen offering : BANANASPLIT
58
Cool, old-style : HEP
59
Mountain chain : RIDGE
60
Steaming : IRATE
61
Summer quencher : ADE
62
Commencement : ONSET
63
Mike with a punch : TYSON
Down
1
Buddy : PAL
2
Common Market money : ECU
3
Vietnam's Le ___ Tho : DUC
4
Synagogue cabinets : ARKS
5
Tell frankly, in slang : LAYITON
6
"___ to the Church on Time" : GETME
7
Switzerland's Gorge of the ___ : AARE
8
Medical suffix : ITIS
9
Go on break : TAKEFIVE
10
Marie, e.g.: Abbr. : STE
11
Be lenient : SPARETHEROD
12
Gold standard : KARAT
13
Hymn finales : AMENS
18
Ancient reptile's suffix : SAUR
21
Rink event : ICESHOW
22
Be ___ in the face : ASLAP
23
In ___ (unborn) : UTERO
24
Bit of riffraff : GUTTERSNIPE
27
Black cuckoo : ANI
29
"The Pit and the Pendulum," e.g. : POETALE
30
Pick up on : SENSE
31
Stiffly neat : PRIM
33
Albanian river : DRIN
34
Use, as influence : EXERT
35
Physician Jonas and kin : SALKS
37
Environmental problem : ACIDRAIN
40
"___ had it!" : IVE
41
Is serious : MEANSIT
43
Indian music : RAGA
44
One of Chekhov's "Three Sisters" : MASHA
45
Smeared indelibly : INKED
46
I.Q. test name : BINET
50
Goals : ENDS
51
Pundit : SAGE
52
Nimble : SPRY
54
Sis's sib : BRO
55
___ Vegas : LAS
56
Lance of L.A. law : ITO
57
Perfection in gymnastics : TEN

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

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