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New York Times, Monday, January 31, 1994

Author:
Janet R. Bender
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Down : Trevanian's "The ___ Sanction"
TotalDebutLatest
3111/30/199211/3/2014
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1151111002
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.5992215%
Janet R. Bender

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Bender. Monday freshness: 64%
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© 1994, The New York Times1/31/94 ( No. 16,155 )
Across
1
Wrongs : SINS
5
Stockyard group : HERD
9
Sail supports : MASTS
14
Govt. agents : TMEN
15
War of 1812 battle site : ERIE
16
Member of a crowd scene : EXTRA
17
Give stars to : RATE
18
Basketball's Chamberlain : WILT
19
1993 Formula One winner Prost : ALAIN
20
Old "House Party" host : ARTLINKLETTER
23
Knocks down : FELLS
24
Reserved : SHY
25
1975 Stephanie Mills musical, with "The" : WIZ
28
Hot time in Paris : ETE
29
Take turns : ROTATE
33
Kind of package : CARE
34
More albinolike : PALER
35
Phobic : SCARED
37
P.G.A.'s 1992 leading money winner : FREDCOUPLES
39
Rickey Henderson stat : STEALS
41
Hunter of myth : ORION
42
Well ventilated : AIRY
43
Least exciting : TAMEST
45
Rotary disk : CAM
48
Sign of summer : LEO
49
Mathematician's letters : QED
50
Throw : HEAVE
52
N.F.L. receiver for 18 seasons : CHARLIEJOINER
57
Booby : IDIOT
59
Not in use : IDLE
60
Grips or Bloods : GANG
61
Uris's "___ Pass" : MITLA
62
Baylor mascot : BEAR
63
Skirt : EDGE
64
Check writer : PAYER
65
Slumped : SANK
66
Actress Charlotte et al. : RAES
Down
1
Attack by plane : STRAFE
2
Turkish hostelry : IMARET
3
Stinging plant : NETTLE
4
Fish-line attachment : SNELL
5
Axed : HEWN
6
Dancer Bruhn : ERIK
7
Small brook : RILL
8
Loathe : DETEST
9
Substantial : MEATY
10
Wheel shaft : AXLE
11
Noted film trilogy : STARWARS
12
Angle starter : TRI
13
___ Jose : SAN
21
Hebrew for "contender with God" : ISRAEL
22
Eponymous poet of Greek drama : THESPIS
26
Temper : IRE
27
British alphabet ender : ZED
30
Elderly one : OLDSTER
31
Gumshoe : TEC
32
"___ With a View" : AROOM
33
Columnist Herb : CAEN
34
Supplicate : PRAY
36
Thread of life spinner, in myth : CLOTHO
37
Savageness : FEROCITY
38
Late actress Mary : URE
39
NaCl, to a pharmacist : SAL
40
Truss : TIE
44
Deviates from the script : ADLIBS
45
Party to Nafta : CANADA
46
Exact retribution : AVENGE
47
Enters a freeway : MERGES
49
Persian Gulf land : QATAR
51
Trevanian's "The ___ Sanction" : EIGER
53
Green target : HOLE
54
Madison Avenue product : IDEA
55
Ardor : ELAN
56
Boor : JERK
57
Cutup : IMP
58
Noche's opposite : DIA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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