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New York Times, Thursday, November 5, 1998

Author:
Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
3-Down : Author Dostoyevsky
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
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3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 17 for Ms. Salomon. Thursday freshness: 39%
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© 1998, The New York Times11/5/98 ( No. 17,894 )
Across
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Sentimental : SOFTBOILED
11
"Diary of ___ Housewife" : AMAD
15
With 37- and 67-Across, a question : IFYOUCHOKE
16
Hootenanny sight : BALE
17
Swords, after conversion : PLOWSHARES
18
Prime the pot : ANTE
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Bruise preventers : PADS
20
Big night : EVE
21
Couric of "Today" : KATIE
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Pacific's counterpart in W.W. II: Abbr. : ETO
24
Detroit's Joe Louis Sports ___ : ARENA
26
Brings up : REARS
28
Tried to keep one's seat : RERAN
30
Unsatisfying outcome : TIE
32
Bee chaser? : CEE
33
Noise of the lambs : BAA
35
Peak seen from the Ionian Sea : ETNA
36
Well-kept secret, for some : AGE
37
See 15-Across : ASMURFWHATCOLOR
42
Sorority letter : RHO
43
Low islands : CAYS
44
Common girl's middle name : LOU
45
See 57-Across : FOR
46
Otto I's realm: Abbr. : HRE
47
Not robust-looking : DRAWN
51
Wise guy : SWAMI
53
Graph measure : SLOPE
57
With 45-Across, try to get : VIE
58
Voting groups : BLOCS
60
Defunct sports org. since 1976 : ABA
61
Amorous skunk Le Pew : PEPE
62
It's a wrap : FOIL
63
Sabotaged, in a way : UNDERMINED
66
While away the time : LAZE
67
See 15-Across : DOESITTURN
68
Western tribe : UTES
69
Pilots must pass it : STRESSTEST
Down
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Not a guzzler : SIPPER
2
Recently : OFLATE
3
Author Dostoyevsky : FYODOR
4
Pulls : TOWS
5
Child carrier : BUS
6
Shade of yellow : OCHER
7
"___ a dream": King : IHAVE
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"Two Women" co-star, 1961 : LOREN
9
Scrape (out) : EKE
10
PC place : DESK
11
Let up : ABATE
12
More than crazy : MANIACAL
13
Bruce Wayne, to Batman : ALTEREGO
14
Singer Joey with the 60's Starliters : DEE
22
Three before seven : AREACODE
24
Lawless : ANARCHIC
25
"___ way!" ("You go, girl!") : ATTA
27
Student of palms : SEER
29
Aladdin's monkey : ABU
31
Like the U.N. : INTL
34
Way off : AFAR
35
Signals to speak up : EHS
37
Pound sounds : ARFS
38
Hot-dog : SHOWBOAT
39
Give a sermon : MORALIZE
40
Some electrical junctions : WYES
41
Old comic "Out ___ Way" : OUR
48
Means : AVENUE
49
Driver's switch : WIPERS
50
"You ___ bother!" : NEEDNT
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Double agents : MOLES
54
Dockworker : LADER
55
Having a lot to lose : OBESE
56
Seine city : PARIS
59
Brewski : SUDS
61
British P.M., 1783-1801 : PITT
62
Asian ___ : FLU
64
Excluding : NOT
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High points: Abbr. : MTS

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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