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New York Times, Saturday, September 11, 1999

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
30-Across : Nut case?
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1894/27/19948/3/2024
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 109 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 59%
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© 1999, The New York Times9/11/99 ( No. 18,204 )
Across
1
1960's TV western star : LEEJCOBB
9
Chemical extracts : EDUCTS
15
Fugitive pursuer : INTERPOL
16
Noted love poem of 1831 : LENORE
17
Gentle air : NOCTURNE
18
Major bore : YAWNER
19
Self-deprecating utterance : DUH
20
Rocks : DAZES
22
Kind of pitch : FEVER
23
Many a moon : AGES
25
"Hawaii Five-O" extra : HODAD
27
"The Art of Beauty" author Montez : LOLA
28
4,000-year-old Chinese dynasty : HSIA
30
Nut case? : TOOLKIT
32
Defense advisory grp. : NSC
34
Talks : JAWS
35
Lansing-to-Flint dir. : ENE
36
Two-faced person? : JEKYLLANDHYDE
40
Lever Bros. brand : LUX
41
Half of a griffin : LION
42
Passing word? : YEA
43
Nonhuman part of a cyborg : IMPLANT
45
MCMLVII and others : ANNI
48
"...baked in ___" : APIE
49
1955 Physics Nobelist : KUSCH
53
Insolence : GUFF
55
Funk of Funk & Wagnalls : ISAAC
57
Bar : SHOAL
59
Workers' grp. founded 1886 : AFL
60
Poor : SUBPAR
62
Condition sometimes treated by hypnosis : INSOMNIA
64
___ Collins, first woman to command a space shuttle : EILEEN
65
Hectic existences : RATRACES
66
Skeleton parts : STERNA
67
Reflex : KNEEJERK
Down
1
1963 Jan and Dean hit : LINDA
2
"Stop it!" : ENOUGH
3
Delineates : ETCHES
4
Whirlpool feature : JET
5
Muck : CRUD
6
Big name in book clubs : OPRAH
7
Early Reagan associate : BONZO
8
Run : BLEED
9
England's Isle of ___ : ELY
10
Ones who sign, with "the" : DEAF
11
Indisposed : UNWELL
12
Called : CONVOKED
13
Where the top begins to get bare : TREELINE
14
Notched : SERRATE
21
One leading to temptation? : SATAN
24
Descend : SINK
26
Old-fashioned : DOWDY
29
Retreats : ASYLA
31
Comic actress Tessie : OSHEA
33
Sound from a toaster? : CLINK
34
Calendar abbr. : JAN
36
Casual garment : JUMPSUIT
37
Subject to recompense, as a crime : EXPIABLE
38
___-eater : LOTUS
39
Positive principle : YANG
40
Makes connections : LIAISES
44
One making rebounds : LEAPER
46
Subtlety : NUANCE
47
Less settled : IFFIER
50
Goldbrick : SHIRK
51
Literary middle name : CONAN
52
Oversight cause, maybe : HASTE
54
Rounded vessel : FLASK
56
City retaken by the Allies, July 9, 1944 : CAEN
58
Tales and such : LORE
61
Some strands : RNA
63
Kind of scale: Abbr. : MAJ

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

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