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New York Times, Tuesday, January 4, 1994

Author:
David A. Rosen
Editor:
Will Shortz
33-Down : The Gold Coast, today
TotalDebutLatest
21/4/19944/8/1994
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0010010
ScrabDebutFresh
1.761127%
David A. Rosen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QZ} Spans: 4 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Rosen. Tuesday freshness: 16%
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© 1994, The New York Times1/4/94 ( No. 16,128 )
Across
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Rumble : MELEE
6
Not fancy? : FACT
10
Difficult obligation : TASK
14
"___of do or die" : ACASE
15
Bing Crosby best seller : AMOR
16
Guthrie the younger : ARLO
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Hearty entree : THICKJUICYSTEAK
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Kibbutzniks' dance : HORA
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Reverse : UNDO
22
Must : HASTO
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Place to crash : PAD
25
Kipling novel : KIM
26
Tasty side dish : FRIEDONIONRINGS
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Mortgage matter : RATES
36
Words before "in the arm" or "in the dark" : ASHOT
37
Detective's cry : AHA
38
Them in "Them!" : ANTS
39
Common key signature : BFLAT
40
Composer___ Carlo Menotti : GIAN
41
Cpl., for one : NCO
42
Feed a fete : CATER
43
Stood for : MEANT
44
Yummy dessert : CHOCOLATESUNDAE
47
Cherbourg chum : AMI
48
Latin I? : EGO
49
Lamb Chop's "spokesperson" : SHARI
52
Oceania republic : FIJI
55
Windmill segment : VANE
59
Eventual bonus? : HIGHCHOLESTEROL
62
Cream-filled sandwich : OREO
63
Debouchment : EXIT
64
Internet patrons : USERS
65
Blubber : WEEP
66
Yeltsin veto : NYET
67
Koch's predecessor : BEAME
Down
1
Calculator work : MATH
2
Radar blip : ECHO
3
Thieves' hideout : LAIR
4
They're loose : ESCAPEES
5
"Yikes!" : EEK
6
"The Afternoon of a ___" : FAUN
7
In the thick of : AMID
8
First name in perfumery : COCO
9
Venture : TRY
10
Japanese mats : TATAMI
11
Olympic hawk : ARES
12
Bed-frame crosspiece : SLAT
13
"Mikado" executioner : KOKO
18
Sport whose name means "soft way" : JUDO
19
Polo, e.g. : SHIRT
24
Circulars : ADS
25
Carpenter's woe : KNOT
26
French bread? : FRANC
27
High-priced spread? : RANCH
28
".... and eat ___" : ITTOO
29
Subj. of a Clinton victory, 11/17/93 : NAFTA
30
Key : ISLET
31
Midway alternative : OHARE
32
River nymph : NAIAD
33
The Gold Coast, today : GHANA
34
"A votre___!" : SANTE
39
Java neighbor : BALI
40
Columbus, by birth : GENOVESE
42
"Nancy" or "Cathy" : COMIC
43
Puss : MUG
45
Server on skates : CARHOP
46
DOS + cuatro : SEIS
49
Take third : SHOW
50
Take on : HIRE
51
"___on Film" (1983 book set) : AGEE
52
Conniving : FOXY
53
Coach Nastase : ILIE
54
Rock's Joan : JETT
56
Sphere : AREA
57
"Cheers" habitue : NORM
58
Alternatively : ELSE
60
Lady lobster : HEN
61
Ungainly craft : TUB

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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