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New York Times, Saturday, December 5, 1998

Author:
Daniel R. Stark
Editor:
Will Shortz
48-Down : Carpentry chore
TotalDebutLatest
165/18/199412/5/1998
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Daniel R. Stark

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 16 for Mr. Stark. Saturday freshness: 48%
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© 1998, The New York Times12/5/98 ( No. 17,924 )
Across
1
Pot contents, perhaps : LOBSTER
8
Weak : FLACCID
15
Light yellowish green : AVOCADO
16
Musical embellishment : ROULADE
17
Roman home protectors : PENATES
18
They're left behind : ESTATES
19
Property of a cliché : TRITENESS
21
Ready for drawing : ONTAP
22
Gray piece : ODE
23
Safer associate : STAHL
25
Shiva's wife : KALI
26
Hardly retiring : PUSHY
29
Fine-tune : TWEAK
31
Not nous : ILS
32
Bristles : SETAE
33
___ nous : ENTRE
34
Leaching product : LYE
35
Perverse : WRY
37
Viña ___ Mar, Chile : DEL
39
Defective : BAD
42
Scourges : BANES
46
Gorilla's swing : LIANA
50
Gloaming : EVE
51
Floor : AMAZE
52
Tannin source : SUMAC
53
Finnish cross-country gold medalist Maentyranta : EERO
55
First-magnitude star in Virgo : SPICA
57
Launch of 2/20/86 : MIR
58
Error that leads to trial : CRIME
60
Hierarchy : TOTEMPOLE
63
Danish cheese : HAVARTI
65
"1984" setting : OCEANIA
66
Program particular : AGENDUM
67
Salad preparation step : RINSING
68
Referee : MEDIATE
69
Banger, in Britain : SAUSAGE
Down
1
They're off during takeoff : LAPTOPS
2
Accumulating fines : OVERDUE
3
Superlatively spare : BONIEST
4
"Aroint thee!," in modern language : SCAT
5
Poet laureate of 1692 : TATE
6
Blissful states : EDENS
7
Leopard spot : ROSETTE
8
Flash flood : FRESHET
9
West end of L.A.? : LOS
10
___ parts : AUTO
11
Knight noise : CLANK
12
Elephant grass, e.g. : CATTAIL
13
For best results : IDEALLY
14
Not fancy at all : DESPISE
20
Cut : SAWN
24
Enrich, in a way : LARD
27
Bit of hesitation : HAW
28
___ Buena (island in San Francisco Bay) : YERBA
30
Dirigible parts : KEELS
36
Southern roots : YAMS
38
"Turandot" slave girl : LIU
39
Royal Philharmonic founder : BEECHAM
40
B+ or C-, e.g. : AVERAGE
41
Reasoned out : DERIVED
43
When the kids are out : NAPTIME
44
Handel opera : EZIO
45
They may be private : SECTORS
47
Suffocating solution : AMMONIA
48
Carpentry chore : NAILING
49
Land : ACREAGE
54
Qabus bin Said, e.g. : OMANI
56
Fungal spore sacs : AECIA
59
Mother of the Valkyries : ERDA
61
Dinner table? : MENU
62
It's often made freshly : PASS
64
Entombed king : TUT

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

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