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New York Times, Friday, February 20, 1998

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Down : Sr. trials
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 71 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 3%
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© 1998, The New York Times2/20/98 ( No. 17,636 )
Across
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Diner dish : HASHBROWNS
11
Bed and breakfast sites : INNS
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Area of Great Society concern : APPALACHIA
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"The Seven Joys of Mary," e.g. : NOEL
17
Boonlike : HEAVENSENT
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To be, to Cato : ESSE
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Green light : ASSENT
20
___ corporales : RES
21
Acclivity : RISE
22
Figure (out) : DOPE
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Penicillin target, for short : STREP
25
Stuffs : SATES
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First name in Mideast politics : HOSNI
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England's Isle of ___ : ELY
33
Like most limericks, in short : ANON
34
Mellow : SOFTEN
35
"Look ___ ye leap" : ERE
36
Explosive powder : CORDITE
38
Hair style : PAGEBOY
40
Play with robots : RUR
41
Active police officer : NABBER
43
Way it's done : MODE
44
Stretch (out) : EKE
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"Wunderbar!" : GREAT
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Like some sugar : CUBED
47
"Purgatorio" writer : DANTE
49
Bud, maybe : BEER
51
Ticket : CITE
52
One or more : ANY
54
Lawgivers : SOLONS
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Forget about : OMIT
60
Business personnel : SALESWOMEN
62
Don : WEAR
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Diamond theft? : STOLENBASE
64
Actress Ward : SELA
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Serious : NONONSENSE
Down
1
Result of a crack? : HAHA
2
"2001" characters : APES
3
They may be filled with jets : SPAS
4
Be laid up with : HAVE
5
Compounds : BLENDS
6
Totaled : RANTO
7
Where lts. are trained : OCS
8
From which : WHEREOF
9
See left : NINE
10
Sr. trials : SATS
11
Just sitting : INERT
12
"Forget it!" : NOSIREEBOB
13
Kind of pie named for a Russian count : NESSELRODE
14
Unalert, in a way : SLEEPYEYED
23
The moon, in poetry : PHOEBE
24
Tell all : SING
25
They are beyond reproach : SACREDCOWS
26
"Un Homme et une Femme" actress : ANOUKAIMEE
27
Coming in a rush : TORRENTIAL
28
Cricket wicket : END
30
Southern resort city, briefly : STPETE
31
Kind of catastrophe : NEAR
34
Celebrated : STAR
37
Longtime dean of St. Paul's : INGE
39
Outback denizen : EMU
42
Ancient city whose name means "Gate of God" : BABYLON
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Some dentalwork : CROWNS
48
Fish in a tank : TETRA
50
City NE of Düsseldorf : ESSEN
52
Professional org. : ASSN
53
Expanding grp. : NATO
55
Earlap : LOBE
56
Neighbor of Saudi Arabia : OMAN
57
Famed loch : NESS
58
Cornell's ___ Hall : SNEE
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"Ole ___" (1976 album) : ELO

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

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