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New York Times, Wednesday, October 6, 1999

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
9-Down : Detective novelist John Dickson ___
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Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 64 for Mr. Piscop. Wednesday freshness: 47%
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© 1999, The New York Times10/6/99 ( No. 18,229 )
Across
1
Hide-hair link : NOR
4
Letters in cyberspace : EMAIL
9
Insured's contribution : COPAY
14
Log cabin President : ABE
15
Comics orphan : DONDI
16
Fred's dancing partner : ADELE
17
Winter air quality : NIP
18
Fetch : GOGET
19
Played over : RERAN
20
Most Three Stooges films : TWOREELSHORTS
23
Maneuver slowly : EASE
24
Overindulgent one : DOTER
25
Rushed headlong : TORE
28
Curl one's lip : SNEER
30
Chekhov's first play : IVANOV
32
Ed Norton's field of work : SEWERAGE
37
Affirmative : AYE
38
Attorneys' filings : LEGALBRIEFS
40
Before now : AGO
42
NATO, for one : ALLIANCE
43
Update, as a story : RETELL
45
Nobel Prize economist Lawrence : KLEIN
49
Physicist Niels : BOHR
50
Vaudevillian Foy : EDDIE
55
"___ hungry I could..." : IMSO
56
Some Olympians : AMATEURBOXERS
59
Makeshift money : SCRIP
61
Pentagon bigwigs : BRASS
62
"Yay, team!" : RAH
63
"Common Sense" pamphleteer : PAINE
64
Ancient letters : RUNES
65
"That's amazing!" : GEE
66
Arctic floaters : FLOES
67
Acid in proteins : AMINO
68
Loop loopers : ELS
Down
1
Port on the Loire : NANTES
2
Alec's "Star Wars" role : OBIWAN
3
Lie at rest : REPOSE
4
Upper hand : EDGE
5
Hit a low note? : MOOED
6
White : ANGLO
7
In other words : IDEST
8
Loose-limbed : LITHE
9
Detective novelist John Dickson ___ : CARR
10
One-named folk singer : ODETTA
11
Public images : PERSONAS
12
In the style of : ALA
13
Kyoto cash : YEN
21
Artful Dodger : REESE
22
(0,0) on a graph : ORIGIN
26
Frontier judge Bean : ROY
27
Adam's madam : EVE
29
Fit for a king : REGAL
31
Legendary baseball exec Bill : VEECK
33
Back-pocket bulge : WALLET
34
45 inches : ELL
35
Batter's stat. : RBI
36
Celestial altar : ARA
38
Lady-killer : LOTHARIO
39
Justice Frankfurter : FELIX
40
Wall St. figure : ARB
41
Prizm maker : GEO
44
Furrier's offering : ERMINE
46
Exit one's cocoon : EMERGE
47
Galilee's land : ISRAEL
48
Enjoys a bagel, maybe : NOSHES
51
Winger of the screen : DEBRA
52
Pasta-maker's wheat : DURUM
53
Farsi speaker : IRANI
54
Buddy who played Barnaby : EBSEN
57
King Kong's kin : APES
58
___ buco : OSSO
59
Sunblock letters : SPF
60
Hall-of-Famer Hubbard : CAL

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

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