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New York Times, Wednesday, November 6, 1996

Author:
M. E. Skolsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
22-Down : Super-duper
TotalDebutLatest
131/30/19967/28/2004
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0138100
RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.624630%
Mark Elliot Skolsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 80, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Skolsky. Wednesday freshness: 30%
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© 1996, The New York Times11/6/96 ( No. 17,165 )
Across
1
Inside the foul line : FAIR
5
Like Ionesco's soprano : BALD
9
Romantic actor Charles : BOYER
14
It parallels the radius : ULNA
15
Perlman of "Pearl" : RHEA
16
A month in Madrid : ENERO
17
Robin : REDBREAST
19
Actress Shire : TALIA
20
Wall Street order : BUY
21
Brain test results, for short : EEGS
23
Some linemen: Abbr. : LTS
24
Hopes : ASPIRES
28
School failure : DROPOUT
30
Alphabetic run : STU
31
Kind of summit : ARAB
33
All over : ANEW
34
Pinkish color : CORAL
36
Custard tart : FLAN
38
Longtime Israeli foreign minister : EBAN
41
Rock concert equipment : AMPS
42
See 32-Down : BEARD
43
Start of a Latin boast : VENI
44
___ Alto, Calif. : PALO
45
Mobil rival : ARCO
46
E-mail predecessor : TELEX
47
Oklahoma city : ENID
49
1995 earthquake site : KOBE
51
Potash : LYE
52
Conniver : SCHEMER
55
Having deep pockets : MONEYED
57
Miler Sebastian : COE
58
French tire : PNEU
60
Shot over the head : LOB
61
D-Day beach : OMAHA
63
Legal-tender bill : GREENBACK
68
Situation for Pauline? : PERIL
69
Ice cream thickener : AGAR
70
Industrial show : EXPO
71
First name in cosmetics : ESTEE
72
Mother of Apollo : LETO
73
___ ex machina : DEUS
Down
1
Raccoon, e.g. : FUR
2
Bitter : ALE
3
Not the party type: Abbr. : IND
4
Browning's Ben Ezra, e.g. : RABBI
5
Supreme Court Justice Stephen : BREYER
6
"Gotcha!" : AHA
7
___-majeste : LESE
8
Saw : DATED
9
Trusts : BETSON
10
___ roll : ONA
11
Chicken, so to speak : YELLOWBELLY
12
"A Masked Ball" aria : ERITU
13
Friars Club event : ROAST
18
Part of R.F.D. : RURAL
22
Super-duper : GRAND
24
Royalties org. : ASCAP
25
Pore in a leaf : STOMA
26
Service award : PURPLEHEART
27
"60 Minutes" newsman : SAFER
29
Irk : PEEVE
32
With 42-Across, a famous pirate : BLACK
35
Together : ASONE
37
Woolf's "___ of One's Own" : AROOM
39
Words before and after "for" : ANEYE
40
Forbade : NIXED
42
When doubled, a German city : BADEN
46
Mortise's mate : TENON
48
Stick : IMPALE
50
Ravel composition : BOLERO
52
Sub's eye, for short : SCOPE
53
Shows up : COMES
54
Buick model : REGAL
56
Fell off : EBBED
59
Feel the ___ : URGE
62
Make haste : HIE
64
Dinner table exhortation : EAT
65
Fire : AXE
66
Computer's heart, for short : CPU
67
Dempsey stat : KOS

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

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