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New York Times, Thursday, August 8, 1996

Author:
D. J. Kahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
47-Across : Yale students beginning in 1969
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16241.551,23753%
David J. Kahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {BJKWXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 18 for Mr. Kahn. Thursday freshness: 92%
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© 1996, The New York Times8/8/96 ( No. 17,075 )
Across
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"Rock of ___" : AGES
5
Press output : APPLECIDER
15
Brest bridge : PONT
16
Subject of a Longfellow poem : PAULREVERE
17
Raised nautically : HOVE
18
Be mature : ACTONESAGE
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Short poem : ODELET
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Sounds of dismay : OYS
22
Rx giver : DOC
23
Ticks off : RILES
24
"What happened next?" : AND
25
Give a price : QUOTE
27
Swear words : IDO
28
Negri of silents : POLA
30
Game divisions : TURNS
31
Fall mo. : SEP
32
Moonfish : OPAH
33
Towel word : HIS
34
50's TV game show : MASQUERADEPARTY
40
Norfolk inits. : USN
41
Absolute worst : PITS
42
Cenozoic, e.g. : ERA
43
Is snoopy : PRIES
45
Old-fashioned fuel : PEAT
46
Patriotic soc. : DAR
47
Yale students beginning in 1969 : COEDS
48
Barrett of Pink Floyd : SYD
49
Heston film role : ELCID
51
Relevant : APT
52
"What's the ___?" : DIF
53
Fitting-room activities : TRYONS
54
1957 #1 song : CHANCESARE
58
Spanish linen fabric : CREA
59
Down-to-the-wire campaigns : TIGHTRACES
60
Subject of peer pressure? : EARL
61
Words of despair : ITSUSELESS
62
Or ___ (if not) : ELSE
Down
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Terse saying : APHORISM
2
"I like that!" : GOODIDEA
3
Surrounds : ENVELOPS
4
Inscribed slab : STELE
5
Give ___ on the back : APAT
6
F.E.C. file entry : PAC
7
"Bye Bye Birdie" song : PUTONAHAPPYFACE
8
Chaplin contemporary : LLOYD
9
Atlantic fliers : ERNS
10
Passing grade : CEE
11
Hosp. hookups : IVS
12
Precisely correct : DEADON
13
Cereal plant diseases : ERGOTS
14
Volleyball's Gabrielle : REECE
20
Takes up, in a way : ESPOUSES
24
Orchard spray : ALAR
25
Wit : QUIPSTER
26
___ Major : URSA
29
Debuts : OPENS
30
Eighth in a series : THETA
35
Chewable wad : QUID
36
Lost vitality : DIED
37
Marine life used for jewelry : REDCORAL
38
Workout figures : TRAINERS
39
Event in a classified : YARDSALE
43
54-Across, e.g. : POPHIT
44
Puts new prices on : RETAGS
47
Western plants : CACTI
48
Fiber named for a town in Mexico : SISAL
50
Eleve's place : LYCEE
52
Classic Latin work "___ Rustica" : DERE
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1979 Polanski film : TESS
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Madame ___ of 60's Vietnam : NHU
56
Pennies: Abbr. : CTS
57
___ judicata : RES

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

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