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New York Times, Tuesday, March 12, 1996

Author:
R. J. Hartman
Editor:
Will Shortz
32-Down : Morocco's capital
TotalDebutLatest
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41.552297%
Randall J. Hartman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQVWX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Hartman. Tuesday freshness: 4%
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© 1996, The New York Times3/12/96 ( No. 16,926 )
Across
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Nosegay : POSY
5
Stared at : OGLED
10
Mex. miss : SRTA
14
Pro___ : RATA
15
Stopped in one's tracks : FROZE
16
Beatles' "Magical Mystery___" : TOUR
17
Prince William's school : ETON
18
British strand : FIBRE
19
Hick : RUBE
20
Type of sonnet : SHAKESPEAREAN
23
J.F.K. jet : SST
24
Avant-garde rocker Lou : REED
25
Bill addition : RIDER
28
Part of a B.A. : ARTS
29
"Frasier" setting : SEATTLE
31
Top-notch : PRIMO
34
Conger : EEL
35
Luftwaffe foe: Abbr. : RAF
36
Hiking danger : RATTLESNAKEBITE
41
Kimono sash : OBI
42
Corporal punishment, with "the" : ROD
43
Cowboy at roundup : ROPER
44
Troughs : MANGERS
47
Stockholm sedan : SAAB
49
Brace (oneself) : STEEL
50
Horse feed : OATS
51
Boston baseball legend Williams : TED
54
Crap shoot : ROLLOFTHEDICE
58
Heartthrob actor Pitt : BRAD
60
Set free : UNTIE
61
Love, in Oviedo : AMOR
62
Film director Clair : RENE
63
Outboard motor's locale : STERN
64
Part : ROLE
65
Chooses : OPTS
66
Sharpens : HONES
67
Spock's voyage : TREK
Down
1
Fourth Estate : PRESS
2
"Gosh darn!" and worse : OATHS
3
Summer ermine : STOAT
4
American : YANK
5
Compensate : OFFSET
6
Complains : GRIPES
7
Like oak leaves : LOBED
8
Pound of poetry : EZRA
9
Bambi, e.g. : DEER
10
Mariner's passage : STRAIT
11
Here to there to here : ROUNDTRIP
12
Not the sleekest ship : TUB
13
"Odds___..." : ARE
21
Swashbuckler Flynn : ERROL
22
One of the history books : ERA
26
Gladden : ELATE
27
Direct elsewhere : REFER
28
Qty. : AMT
29
Coral___ : SEA
30
Cousin of the moose : ELK
31
They're full of dates : PROMS
32
Morocco's capital : RABAT
33
Traveling salesman : ITINERANT
34
Curtains, with "the" : END
37
Blow it : ERR
38
...---... : SOS
39
De-chalk : ERASE
40
Bing's buddy in old films : BOB
45
Hollow rocks : GEODES
46
Building wing : ELL
47
Juvenal's genre : SATIRE
48
Acropolis locale : ATHENS
50
Frequently : OFTEN
51
Indonesian island : TIMOR
52
Paris's___des Beaux-Arts : ECOLE
53
Bo of "10" fame : DEREK
55
Opulent : LUSH
56
Cognizant of : ONTO
57
Pub throw : DART
58
Pal : BRO
59
Newt Gingrich, e.g.: Abbr. : REP

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

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