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New York Times, Thursday, March 12, 1998

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
9-Down : Fulminator
TotalDebutLatest
15411/22/19939/1/2024
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1425262552948
RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.5550233%
Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQWXZ} This is puzzle # 42 for Mr. Piscop. Thursday freshness: 86%
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© 1998, The New York Times3/12/98 ( No. 17,656 )
Across
1
Ventures : TRIES
6
Nantes's river : LOIRE
11
___-Locka, Fla. : OPA
14
Familiar term of address : KIDDO
15
Recital feature : ORGAN
16
Populous area : URB
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It doesn't generate interest : OCOUPONBOND
19
Javits Center designer : PEI
20
Late comic Farley : CHRIS
21
Described as : TERMED
23
Land of Robert Burns : SCOTIA
26
College in Syracuse, N.Y. : LEMOYNE
27
Keep locked up : CLOSET
28
Requirements for some badges : MERITS
29
W.W. II heroes: Abbr. : RAF
30
Attack : SETAT
32
___ of Glenure ("Kidnapped" character) : COLIN
35
Some are liberal : ARTS
37
Idiots : DODOS
39
Russo of "Tin Cup" : RENE
40
Bris participant : MOHEL
42
Incurred : RANUP
44
Sked guess : ETA
45
Place of darkness on the way to Hades : EREBUS
47
Evergreen hedge : PRIVET
49
Go-between : LIAISON
51
Relative of a grapefruit : POMELO
52
40's-50's comedy team member : ABBOTT
53
A Stooge : SHEMP
55
Road show grp. : USO
56
Academy Award song of 1947 : OADEEDOODAH
61
Man of the cloth, slangily : REV
62
The "I" in IV : INTRA
63
Treasure : TROVE
64
Suffix with meth- : ANE
65
Popular disinfectant : LYSOL
66
Pre-Novocain stuff : ETHER
Down
1
Ref's ruling, briefly : TKO
2
Rock's Ocasek : RIC
3
Answer to a minister's question : IDO
4
Chemical extractions : EDUCTS
5
"___ Choice" : SOPHIES
6
She was WKRP's Jennifer : LONI
7
Peepers : ORBS
8
1987 #1 hit "Here ___ Again" : IGO
9
Fulminator : RANTER
10
Peculiar to a locale : ENDEMIC
11
Magician's claim : OUPMYSLEEVE
12
Dress up : PREEN
13
Put up with : ABIDE
18
Spieled : ORATED
22
Turbine part : ROTOR
23
Beat it : SCRAM
24
Humidor item : CLARO
25
Multiple-choice choice : OOFTHEABOVE
26
Pretend : LETON
28
___ a hatter : MADAS
31
Springsteen's "Born ___" : TORUN
33
Big name in computer chips : INTEL
34
"Cool!" : NEATO
36
Prefix with comic : SERIO
38
Ate : SUPPED
41
Clorox Company cleanser : LESTOIL
43
Hype : PROMOTE
46
Horticulturist's topic : BOTANY
48
Significance : IMPORT
49
Petrarch's beloved : LAURA
50
"A Doll's House" dramatist : IBSEN
53
Blood fluid: Prefix : SERO
54
Patch up : HEAL
57
Bowery bum's affliction : DTS
58
Homer Simpson exclamation : DOH
59
Blvd. : AVE
60
Any boat : HER

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

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