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New York Times, Saturday, January 6, 1996

Author:
A.J. Santora
Editor:
Will Shortz
55-Down : Silences
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A. J. Santora

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJKQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 210 for Mr. Santora. Saturday freshness: 19%
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© 1996, The New York Times1/6/96 ( No. 16,860 )
Across
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Cut and filed : MANICURED
10
Lay up : AMASS
15
Poker-faced : UNEMOTIVE
16
Hardly wimpy : MACHO
17
Orbital rendezvous point : MIRSPACESTATION
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Like 17-Across, once: Abbr. : SOV
20
Sister of Erato : THALIA
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Crime boss : DON
22
Site of a Hercules task : NEMEA
24
Underling : DEPUTY
27
Vernaculars : ARGOTS
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___Plummer (Dickens character) : CALEB
32
Defensive weapons, for short : SAMS
35
River rising in the Cantabrian Mountains : EBRO
36
"The Last Command" locale : ALAMO
37
Pop singer Tori : AMOS
38
Things : NOUNS
40
Vingt-___ (casino game) : ETUN
41
___Prospekt (old thoroughfare) : LENIN
43
Head start : EDGE
44
Cult film "___Man" : REPO
45
Found riches : TROVE
46
Gambler's secret : SYSTEM
48
Copies : MIMEOS
50
Stomached : STOOD
53
Nail down : ICE
54
Mystery woman : AGATHA
58
Author Wallace : LEW
60
Time-off time : NATIONALHOLIDAY
64
Hot time in Santiago : ENERO
65
Some antibodies : GLUTININS
66
Writer ___Orne Jewett : SARAH
67
Unmanly quality : SISSINESS
Down
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Flowers, for short : MUMS
2
Hydroxide particle : ANION
3
Steadfastness : NERVE
4
Architect Pei and others : IMS
5
Traffic reporter's transport : COPTER
6
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Tony winner : UTAHAGEN
7
Costa follower : RICA
8
Stuntman Knievel : EVEL
9
Big name in 50's comedy : DESI
10
M.D. group : AMA
11
Ring covering : MAT
12
Embitter : ACIDULATE
13
Typical western : SHOOTEMUP
14
California Congressman : SONNYBONO
18
Bit : TAD
23
Huge : MASSIVE
25
Novelist ___de Queiroz : ECA
26
Frank Capra's birthplace : PALERMO
28
Ensemble instruments : OBOES
29
Hubert's wife, in the funnies : TRUDY
30
"Maria" and "Marie" : SONGS
32
Place of drudgery : SALTMINES
33
World Book rival : AMERICANA
34
One-foot line of verse : MONOMETER
39
Two-handed hoops : SETSHOTS
42
Revived: Prefix : NEO
47
List abbreviator : ETALII
49
Antonio, e.g. : SAN
51
"Maria" or "Marie" : OLDIE
52
Ecclesiastical officials : DEANS
55
Silences : GAGS
56
"For___know..." : ALLI
57
Accordingly : THUS
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"Swiss Family Robinson" writer : WYSS
61
L.A. lawyer Reiner : IRA
62
Cry of wonderment : OOH
63
B and B : INN

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

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