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New York Times, Friday, August 8, 1997

Author:
Martin Ashwood-Smith and Bob Klahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
26-Across : Fighting bird
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
876/5/19919/24/202210
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
000246417
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.52456766%
Martin Ashwood-Smith
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
601/29/19945/22/201110
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1313121426
CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.5746577%
Bob Klahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {QXY} Spans: 6, (2 triple stacks) This is puzzle # 20 for Mr. Ashwood-Smith. This is puzzle # 28 for Mr. Klahn. Friday freshness: 20%
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© 1997, The New York Times8/8/97 ( No. 17,440 )
Across
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Posts in the Hearst empire : EDITORIALCHAIRS
16
Bailed out : CAMETOTHERESCUE
17
Bark, generally : THREEMASTEDSHIP
18
Gene Autry's "___ Faithful" : OLE
19
Wailuku welcome : ALOHA
20
Nobelist Morrison : TONI
21
"Woodstock" songwriter Mitchell : JONI
23
Voltmeter meas. : EMF
25
Mandela's land: Abbr. : RSA
26
Fighting bird : GAMECOCK
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Memnon's mother, in Homer : EOS
32
Dispatch boat : AVISO
33
One way to resign : INPROTEST
38
Preseason staple : RERUN
39
Animals: Suffix : ZOA
40
Hamlet's relatives : TOWNS
41
A piece of one's mind? : BRAINCELL
43
More or less vertical : APEAK
44
With 4-Down, perfectly : TOA
45
Digs : LODGINGS
47
First name in horror : LON
50
A.A.A. recommendation : RTE
52
Congregate : MEET
53
Compass : AREA
55
"Roustabout" star : ELVIS
57
"The Simpsons" storekeeper : APU
60
They're debatable : BORDERLINECASES
64
International understanding : ENTENTECORDIALE
65
Down
1
Prefix with -therm : ECTO
2
"Kiss, Kiss" author : DAHL
3
Hungarian poet Madach : IMRE
4
See 44-Across : TEE
5
Suffix with Capri : OTE
6
Cheese made from ewe's milk : ROMANO
7
Underscore : ITALICIZE
8
"Now I see!" : AHSO
9
Oblivion : LETHE
10
Service piece : CREAMER
11
"___ make a lovely corpse": Dickens : HED
12
Kind of D.A. : ASST
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It ran in Ares' arteries : ICHOR
14
Wreckage : RUINS
15
Print tint : SEPIA
21
Follower of Ignatius Loyola : JESUIT
22
Bunker player : OCONNOR
24
"Live at Five" clip : FOOTAGE
26
Habit : GARB
27
Say for sure : AVER
28
Red giant in the constellation Cetus : MIRA
29
Mound : KNOLL
31
"Enough!" : STOPIT
34
Trigger and others : PALOMINOS
35
Gershwin biographer David : EWEN
36
Hitch or glitch : SNAG
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Priggish pronouncements : TSKS
42
Pamper : CATERTO
46
Ditch : DESERT
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Record company : LABEL
48
Maine college town : ORONO
49
"Dagnabbit!" : NERTS
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Columnist Goodman : ELLEN
54
Chick's tail? : ADEE
56
Number two : VICE
57
Chop-chop : ASAP
58
1958 World Cup sensation : PELE
59
Mouse manipulator : USER
61
No one has two of them : ENS
62
Do, re, mi : CDE
63
Object : AIM

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later.

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