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New York Times, Thursday, November 9, 1995

Author:
Bob Sefick
Editor:
Will Shortz
49-Down : Hand wringers
TotalDebutLatest
108/7/19928/3/2000
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Bob Sefick

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQVXYZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Sefick. Thursday freshness: 63%
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© 1995, The New York Times11/9/95 ( No. 16,802 )
Across
1
Fair plot : ACRE
5
Laundry load : BASKETFUL
14
Brown : TOAST
16
Cowboy's horse : APPALOOSA
17
Live coal : EMBER
18
"Mee-ow!" crier of verse : CALICOCAT
19
L.A.P.D. alert : APB
20
Eliminate : ABOLISH
22
Hypotheticals : IFS
23
Regular character in "Blondie" : MAILMAN
25
Overrun : TEEM
27
Arthur Murray instruction : STEPS
28
Forage areas : RANGES
32
Out of port : ASEA
33
Tops or props : TEES
37
Office betting plans : POOLS
38
Snoop group : CIA
39
Costa Rican coin : CENTIMO
41
Surfers' hangout with "the" : NET
42
Blackmore heroine : LORNA
44
Seaman-author : DANA
45
Bodybuilders build them : PECS
46
Still on the market : UNSOLD
48
Tap choice : DRAFT
50
First name in tennis : ILIE
52
Yellow, trafficwise : CAUTION
54
"The Kids Are Alright" band, with "The" : WHO
57
Juliet question, with "What's" : INANAME
59
Boffo sign : SRO
60
Showoff : HOTDOGGER
62
Addict's program : REHAB
64
Full, as clothes : UNTAPERED
65
Wallop : SMITE
66
Nags : PESTERERS
67
Scott Turow title : ONEL
Down
1
Varsity : ATEAM
2
Empathy : COMPASSION
3
TV projections : RABBITEARS
4
Language suffix : ESE
5
Breakfast sizzler : BACON
6
"You're ___" ("Thanks") : APAL
7
Take off : SPLIT
8
Popular roll : KAISER
9
Hardly a big spender : ELCHEAPO
10
Unduly : TOO
11
Geometry points : FOCI
12
F-111 fliers: Abbr. : USAF
13
Bodybuilders build them : LATS
15
Chaplin persona : TRAMP
21
Tend the roast : BASTE
24
Greenery : LEA
26
Telephone "6" : MNO
29
1951 Crosby-Armstrong tune : GONEFISHIN
30
Voters : ELECTORATE
31
J.F.K. sights : SSTS
32
Rights champion, for short : ACLU
34
Epilogue : END
35
Hellenic vowel : ETA
36
Trespass : SIN
39
Circus whistler : CALLIOPE
40
Gentlewoman : MADAM
43
"___ don't!" : NOI
45
Like some alibis : PAT
47
Home run, in slang : DINGER
49
Hand wringers : RUERS
51
Tidal bore : EAGRE
52
Busch Stadium team : CARDS
53
Prestigious prize : NOBEL
54
Lick : WHUP
55
Improve : HONE
56
Baseball's Mel and Ed : OTTS
58
___-do-well : NEER
61
Latin case: Abbr. : DAT
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Comic Philips : EMO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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