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New York Times, Friday, February 26, 1999

Author:
Martin Ashwood-Smith
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Down : Game keeper?
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Martin Ashwood-Smith

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {FJQ} Spans: 3, (1 triple stack) This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. Ashwood-Smith. Friday freshness: 21%
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© 1999, The New York Times2/26/99 ( No. 18,007 )
Across
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Big name in beer : PABST
6
"Cooperstown" star, 1993 : ARKIN
11
Tooth dr.'s org. : ADA
14
Be taken with : ADORE
15
Pico de ___ (12,000-foot volcano on the Canary Islands) : TEIDE
16
Snaps : PIX
17
Kidneylike : RENAL
18
Master manipulator : OSTEOPATH
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___ vapeur (steamed) : ALA
21
Cap : LIMIT
23
Pigeonhole : NICHE
24
Earth movers : LANDSLIDES
27
"___ Team" : THEA
28
"___ With a Z" (1972 Emmy-winning show) : LIZA
29
Extended operatic solo : SCENA
30
Drove : HERD
31
"Gunsmoke" Doc : ADAMS
33
Like high-strung horses : SNORTY
35
Letters in some ratings : XES
36
Literally, "traveling companion" : SPUTNIK
38
Relief provider? : MAP
41
Small-time : TWOBIT
42
Watch name since 1894 : OMEGA
44
1997 Philip Kerr best-selling mystery : ESAU
47
Fighter of the Sioux : OMAHA
49
Teen ___ : IDOL
50
This may be hard to date : NERD
51
16th-century Italian composer, subject of a 1917 German opera : PALESTRINA
53
Former insider : EXCON
55
Gardener, at times : RAKER
56
Year Martial died : CIV
57
Middle weight? : SPARETIRE
59
Floor : AMAZE
61
One way to ship : COD
62
Mead base : HONEY
63
Kitchen utensil : PARER
64
Suffix with Capri : OTE
65
Think pieces? : IDEAS
66
Starting points : SEEDS
Down
1
Difference in apparent direction, in astronomy : PARALLAX
2
City NE of Kangaroo Island : ADELAIDE
3
Windfalls : BONANZAS
4
Overseas title: Abbr. : SRA
5
Goes public : TELLS
6
1950's cold war development : ATOMICSUBMARINE
7
Living room? : RESIDENTIALAREA
8
1921 hit piano tune : KITTENONTHEKEYS
9
Suffix with sulf- : IDE
10
Hardly drab : NEON
11
Kind of helicopter : APACHE
12
State : DITHER
13
Helve attachment : AXHEAD
19
Concise : PITHY
22
Parisian pronoun : ILS
25
Water gate : DAM
26
Part of it is draped over the shoulder : SARI
32
Hurricane hdg. : SSW
34
Ring letters : TKO
37
Lowdown : POOP
38
What a portion of all wages goes for : MEDICARE
39
Sweated : AGONIZED
40
Conferences : PALAVERS
41
House of two Henrys : TUDOR
43
Successor to Salyut 7 : MIR
44
Violinist Georges : ENESCO
45
Bombshell, so to speak : SEXPOT
46
Game keeper? : ARCADE
48
Peer Gynt's mother : ASE
52
Game keepers? : TRAPS
54
Classic soft drink : NEHI
58
"___ und Verklärung" (Richard Strauss opus) : TOD
60
Pearl Bailey's middle name : MAE

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

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