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New York Times, Friday, January 26, 1996

Author:
M. Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
36-Down : Capital city once called Batavia
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 29 Missing: {FX} This is puzzle # 49 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 84%
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© 1996, The New York Times1/26/96 ( No. 16,880 )
Across
1
Good work, as by an auto mechanic? : BANGUPJOB
10
Plague : BANE
14
Relative of a water ski : AQUAPLANE
15
Indian soldier of old : SEPOY
16
Transfers : TURNSOVER
17
Dashed off : WROTE
18
Navigation hazard : MIST
19
Ancient Brit : PICT
20
Holdup man? : ATLAS
21
Tip off : ALERT
23
Electrically transmitted picture : TELEPHOTO
25
___Shah, Persian ruler who seized the Kohinoor diamond : NADIR
26
Kink : SNAG
27
Pulitzer author Herbert : AGAR
28
Düsseldorf dessert : EIS
30
Drive-___ : THRU
32
Québec's___de Montréal : ILE
33
1954 Maxwell Anderson play, with "The" : BADSEED
37
Some summer cabins : RENTALS
39
My and thy : OUR
40
Already, in Allier : DEJA
42
Clipped conjunction : THO
43
Not much : ATAD
45
Bills : TABS
47
1915 Gallipoli fighter : ANZAC
51
By the___ (what's more) : SAMETOKEN
53
Some canines : TEETH
54
Actress Lords of "A Time to Die" : TRACI
55
Some Arab kings : ALIS
57
"Vissi d'___" (Puccini aria) : ARTE
58
Outward, in anatomy : ECTAD
59
Carried away : RAPTUROUS
61
View from Basel : RHINE
62
Therapy : TREATMENT
63
Part of PBS: Abbr. : SYST
64
Phone book info : ADDRESSES
Down
1
Masked savior : BATMAN
2
Constellation south of Cygnus : AQUILA
3
Took care of : NURSED
4
Train signal frameworks : GANTRIES
5
Shipping co. : UPS
6
Raindrop's fall : PLOP
7
New York's___Center : JAVITS
8
Copper : ONECENT
9
Onetime Judy Garland co-star : BERTLAHR
10
W.W.I's Big___ : BERTHA
11
Augustine's "The City of God," e.g. : APOLOGIA
12
Less than rarely : NOTATALL
13
Blemishes : EYESORES
15
Kind of meet : SWAP
22
True companion : TRIED
24
Gulf Coast bird : EGRET
29
Mind : SEETO
31
Doff one's derby : UNHAT
33
Ones with "I" problems? : BOASTERS
34
Czarism, e.g. : AUTARCHY
35
___personae : DRAMATIS
36
Capital city once called Batavia : DJAKARTA
38
Needle holders : TONEARMS
41
Lover of Héloïse : ABELARD
44
Pour, as port : DECANT
46
Shot from cover : SNIPED
48
Flunking scores : ZEROES
49
Bring into harmony : ATTUNE
50
Caissons : CHESTS
52
Procter & Gamble brand : TIDE
56
Destiny : STAR
60
Commercial truck, for short : UTE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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