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New York Times, Tuesday, December 9, 1997

Author:
Fran and Lou Sabin
Editor:
Will Shortz
47-Down : Kitchen gadget
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
2510/5/19949/15/200925
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Fran Sabin
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1.4913710838%
Lou Sabin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 16 for Ms. Sabin. This is puzzle # 127 for Mr. Sabin. Tuesday freshness: 68%
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© 1997, The New York Times12/9/97 ( No. 17,563 )
Across
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Pea holders : PODS
5
Coagulate : CLOT
9
Not bold : TIMID
14
Declare : AVOW
15
Frost : RIME
16
"Swan Lake" maiden : ODILE
17
Stupefy : DAZE
18
Moffo at the Met : ANNA
19
Nice ___ (prudish one) : NELLY
20
Popular sing-along tune of 1925 : SLEEPYTIMEGAL
23
Whiz : PRO
24
Picked at, picked at, picked at : FUSSED
27
Hubbub : ADO
30
Fill with feeling : INSPIRE
34
Literary inits. : TSE
35
Minor dents : DINGS
37
What a chapeau covers : TETE
38
Art Deco pioneer : ERTE
39
1954 song with a repeating title : DREAMDREAMDREAM
42
"O.K., why not?" : LETS
43
Bagel or bialy : ROLL
44
Type type : AGATE
45
Prefix with sphere or disaster : ECO
46
Visits : COMESBY
48
Kind of school : MED
49
Clog : STOPUP
51
___ minérale : EAU
53
1954 #1 hit by the Chordettes : MISTERSANDMAN
60
Meager : SCANT
62
Foolish fellow : COOT
63
Mustachioed artist : DALI
64
Postal scale unit : OUNCE
65
Revolutionary hero Nathan : HALE
66
Prez : EXEC
67
Beautician's device : DRYER
68
Scent : ODOR
69
"Casablanca" role : RICK
Down
1
Goalie gear : PADS
2
Face's shape, approximately : OVAL
3
Nap : DOZE
4
Win all the games : SWEEP
5
One of a set of 64, maybe : CRAYON
6
Fluff : LINT
7
Home of the Hawks, with "the" : OMNI
8
Hawks or Seahawks, e.g. : TEAM
9
Deli meat offering : TONGUE
10
Notions : IDEAS
11
Grain grinder's power source : MILLSTREAM
12
___-timed : ILL
13
Actress Susan : DEY
21
Color separator : PRISM
22
Violinist Zimbalist : EFREM
25
Home in the country : ESTATE
26
Considered : DEEMED
27
Confounds : ADDLES
28
Run the show : DIRECT
29
Drinker's excess : ONETOOMANY
31
Sen. Thurmond : STROM
32
"The Old Wives' Tale" dramatist : PEELE
33
Biased writing?: Abbr. : ITALS
36
Bromo target : GAS
38
Bit of work : ERG
40
Let fall, in poetry : DROPT
41
Israel's Moshe : DAYAN
46
General called "Yellowhair" : CUSTER
47
Kitchen gadget : BEATER
50
___-nez : PINCE
52
Milk source : UDDER
54
Hollow reply? : ECHO
55
Way to go : ROAD
56
Fly like Lindy : SOLO
57
60's-70's dress : MAXI
58
Novelist Waugh : ALEC
59
Shaver's woe : NICK
60
Green cover : SOD
61
Junkyard dog : CUR

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

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