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New York Times, Thursday, September 10, 1998

Author:
Christopher Hurt
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Nicolas Cage co-star, 1995
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
117/19/199412/23/19981
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2013410
ScrabDebutFresh
1.607363%
Christopher Hurt

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Hurt. Thursday freshness: 51%
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© 1998, The New York Times9/10/98 ( No. 17,838 )
Across
1
In ___ (undisturbed) : SITU
5
Shindig : BASH
9
Acclamation : ECLAT
14
___ impasse : ATAN
15
Ancestor of the Q'ero Indians : INCA
16
Everybody's opposite : NOONE
17
Anklebones : TALI
18
Punkie : GNAT
19
"Fiddler on the Roof" role : TEVYE
20
Nicolas Cage co-star, 1995 : ELISABETHSHUE
23
Kind of derby : SOAPBOX
24
Aimless : ERRANT
27
"Hands off!" : HEY
28
___ de León, Spain : ISLA
30
Each : PER
31
Direction at a scene's end : FADE
34
Southern dessert : SHOOFLYPIE
37
Rhône feeder : ISERE
39
Family card game : UNO
40
___ column (building support) : LALLY
41
Tiny bankroll : SHOESTRING
44
Animation frames : CELS
45
"Nightline" name : TED
46
Bathroom supply : TALC
47
Old English letter : EDH
49
Icelandic poet ___ Sturluson : SNORRI
51
Assassination victim of 1940 : TROTSKY
55
Sullivan offering, inevitably : REALLYBIGSHEW
58
Long-armed zoo creature : ORANG
60
Quarter-deck? : SUIT
61
Playwright Connelly : MARC
62
Not solid-colored : PINTO
63
He sang of Alice : ARLO
64
Sigmund Freud's daughter : ANNA
65
"Paradise Lost" character : SATAN
66
Bill site : TILL
67
Capone chaser : NESS
Down
1
Fills up : SATES
2
Prefix with -phile : ITALO
3
Actress Shire : TALIA
4
1964-65 World's Fair centerpiece : UNISPHERE
5
Major-leaguers : BIGBOYS
6
Take over : ANNEX
7
"Beat it!" : SCAT
8
"Thirty days ___ November..." : HATH
9
Captivate : ENTHRALL
10
Heart of Paris : COEUR
11
Tomato : LOVEAPPLE
12
Whatever : ANY
13
Kicker's aid : TEE
21
Nancy Hanks's boy : ABE
22
Narcissist's love : SELF
25
Sam of "The Piano" : NEILL
26
They're usually not good with tricks : TREYS
28
Kind of column : IONIC
29
Procrastinator's promise : SOON
31
Dukes : FISTS
32
Pale : ASHEN
33
Toilette accessory : DEODORANT
35
Pitch : HURL
36
Aristotle Onassis, notably : YACHTSMAN
38
Gogo, in "Waiting for Godot" : ESTRAGON
42
Deer's scut : TAIL
43
Iron-rich tonic : GERITOL
48
Follow : DOG
50
___-Wreck : RENTA
51
Govt. promissory note : TBILL
52
Fictional gunfighter : SHANE
53
Typeface extensions : KERNS
54
Community orgs. : YWCAS
56
Exam for college srs. : LSAT
57
Cosmonaut Gagarin : YURI
58
Photo ___ : OPS
59
Its mouth is its biggest part : RIA

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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