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New York Times, Thursday, December 11, 1997

Author:
Trip Payne
Editor:
Will Shortz
3-Down : Come-on line
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
464/10/19948/3/20211
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1034463133
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
421.5333860%
Trip Payne

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 3 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Payne. Thursday freshness: 54%
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© 1997, The New York Times12/11/97 ( No. 17,565 )
Across
1
Twaddle : PAP
4
Sears one's steers : BRANDS
10
Binge : TOOT
14
Gompers's grp. : AFL
15
American hardwood : REDOAK
16
"Aunt" with a 1979 best seller : ERMA
17
Letters often followed by a number : IOU
18
Coolness : APATHY
19
First name? : ADAM
20
Bouquets : NOSEGAYS
22
Holography needs : LASERS
24
Con jobs : STINGS
25
"Consider Yourself" musical : OLIVER
27
Stew : FRET
28
Mergenthaler patent of 1884 : LINOTYPE
31
Atlanta's Bill Campbell, e.g. : MAYOR
33
Guys who use come-on lines? : ADMEN
34
Masseur's need : OIL
35
Tautomeric compound : ENOL
36
Acts like a quidnunc : PRIES
37
Nonexistent : NULL
38
St. Anthony's cross : TAU
39
Trigger pullers? : REINS
40
Essential parts : CORES
41
Heights : STATURES
43
Kitties : POTS
44
Léger, e.g. : CUBIST
45
Moving to the rhythm : INSTEP
48
Card catalogue entries : TITLES
50
Personally : ONETOONE
52
Trollope's "Lady ___" : ANNA
53
"Ars Poetica" poet : HORACE
55
Cause of some shaking : DTS
56
"Put ___ my tab" : ITON
57
Soccer squad : ELEVEN
58
Quaker verb : ART
59
"The Outsiders" actor : LOWE
60
Rub' al Khali, e.g. : DESERT
61
Sycophant's response : YES
Down
1
Special effort : PAINS
2
What the game may be : AFOOT
3
Come-on line : PLUSIFYOUACTNOW
4
Rodomontade user : BRAGGER
5
Meal : REPAST
6
Start of a Marx Brothers title : ADAY
7
Come-on line : NOTSOLDINSTORES
8
Morse bit : DAH
9
Postcard scenes, sometimes : SKYLINES
10
Afternoon service : TEASET
11
Come-on line : ORDERYOURSTODAY
12
"ER" actor Epps : OMAR
13
Dundee toppers : TAMS
21
Sign up : ENROL
23
River at Bristol : AVON
26
Bartender's "twists," maybe : LIMES
29
Stack : PILE
30
Connecting pipes : ELLS
31
Expansion team of 1962 : METS
32
Gray area?: Abbr. : ANAT
33
The cardinal fire sign : ARIES
36
Became extinct : PERISHED
37
"That's a lie!" : NOTSO
39
Yokel : RUBE
40
Carefree : CONTENT
42
New Orleans university : TULANE
43
Textile joiner : PIECER
46
Between, in Bayonne : ENTRE
47
Gnats and brats : PESTS
48
Shadow : TAIL
49
Fascinated by : INTO
51
Narthex neighbor : NAVE
54
Good ___ boy : OLE

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

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