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New York Times, Friday, September 19, 1997

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : Gravely ill, once
TotalDebutLatest
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31.571,11574%
Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FQX} This is puzzle # 66 for Mr. Norris. Friday freshness: 38%
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© 1997, The New York Times9/19/97 ( No. 17,482 )
Across
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Gravely ill, once : AMORT
6
Big name in auto supplies : NAPA
10
Alphabet trio : RST
13
Damfool thing : BONER
14
Machetes : BOLOS
15
Appear indecisive : HAW
16
Comics hero since 1947 : STEVECANYON
18
Porter : ALE
19
Beers, maybe : CHASERS
20
Request of Rhonda, in a 1965 Beach Boys hit : HELPME
22
Heavenly route : ARC
23
Consider appropriate : DEIGN
26
Have another picture taken : RESIT
27
Helm of fiction : MATT
29
Stop using : SCRAP
31
Left : GONE
32
Invoice fig. : AMT
34
Unfair : ONESIDED
36
Beverly Sills contemporary : MARTINAARROYO
39
Tom or Daisy of "The Great Gatsby" : BUCHANAN
40
1981 Tony winner McKellen : IAN
41
North Carolina county on the Blue Ridge Parkway : ASHE
42
___-Roman : GRECO
44
Trudge : SLOG
48
More remote : ICIER
50
Tanker's cargo : CRUDE
52
Provoke : IRE
53
Old nursery song word : LULLAY
55
V.I.P. : KINGPIN
57
Wing : ELL
58
Subject of a 1930's mystery : JUDGECRATER
61
"Norma ___" : RAE
62
Anonym : ALIAS
63
Thunderstorm product : OZONE
64
A.A.R.P. members : SRS
65
Cord fiber : HEMP
66
Fast times : LENTS
Down
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F.B.I. sting of the late 70's : ABSCAM
2
1962 monster film : MOTHRA
3
Like "The Zoo Story," e.g. : ONEACT
4
Guns : REVS
5
Stuck : TREED
6
Prefix with dairy : NON
7
One of the Khans : ALY
8
"Fiddlesticks!" : POOH
9
Seven-time Emmy winner : ASNER
10
Liszt piece : RHAPSODY
11
Gene Krupa portrayer, 1959 : SALMINEO
12
Chirped : TWEETED
14
Computer language : BASIC
17
Ready to break, as a wave : CRESTING
21
Multitudes : LEGIONS
24
Certain witticism : GROANER
25
1880 literary heroine : NANA
28
Wolfpack opponent : TARHEEL
30
Kind of table : PERIODIC
33
Hit song of 1959 : MTA
35
Overseas Mrs. : SRA
36
Powerful : MUSCULAR
37
Victim of Paris : ACHILLES
38
One whose work's a bust : NARC
39
Emergency boat workers : BAILERS
43
Salad ingredients, briefly : CUKES
45
Maker of Wish-Bone salad dressing : LIPTON
46
Break in, so to speak : ORIENT
47
Categories : GENRES
49
Indian chief : RAJAH
51
Register : ENROL
54
Winter time : YULE
56
Goggle : GAZE
59
Lower, in a way : DIM
60
Break : GAP

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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