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New York Times, Friday, March 12, 1999

Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Down : Least buggy
TotalDebutLatest
2531/26/19565/22/2005
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41.5234018556%
A. J. Santora

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 231 for Mr. Santora. Friday freshness: 39%
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© 1999, The New York Times3/12/99 ( No. 18,021 )
Across
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Eerie feeling : DEJAVU
7
"Alice" spin-off : FLO
10
Badlands Natl. Park locale : SDAK
14
Brightest star in Draco : ETAMIN
15
"At Seventeen" singer Janis : IAN
16
Sound : HALE
17
Occasion to give a speech : ACCEPTANCE
19
Albania's last Communist president : ALIA
20
Greek consonant : RHO
21
Something often at stake? : TOMATOPLANT
23
"I Am a Camera" setting : BERLIN
25
Leans (on) : RELIES
26
Portaged : CARTED
28
Of a tart fruit: Prefix : CITRO
30
Mohawk River city : UTICA
31
Admonition to the unhip : GETWITHIT
35
Clockmaker Terry : ELI
36
"___ Te Ching" (classic Chinese work) : TAO
38
Yemana's portrayer on "Barney Miller" : SOO
39
Singer Sumac : YMA
40
Free from the flesh : DISEMBODY
43
Exhortation after grace : DIGIN
45
"Hard Cash" author Charles : READE
46
Time for a break : SPRING
47
Blacksmiths' needs : APRONS
50
Resurrect, old-style : ARAISE
52
Wasn't rebellious : TOEDTHELINE
54
Bird grp. : NBA
57
Pansophic : WISE
58
Preflight procedure : INSPECTION
60
Alphabet book phrase : ASIN
61
"___ too shabby" : NOT
62
Kind of ticket : SEASON
63
Let out : RENT
64
Mil. aide : GSO
65
Dangerous dipteran : TSETSE
Down
1
Billet-doux beginner : DEAR
2
Write with a point : ETCH
3
"The Battle With the Slum" author : JACOBRIIS
4
Rosemary Clooney's "Botch-___" : AME
5
Red-carpet reception : VIPTREATMENT
6
Countless : UNTOLD
7
Back : FINANCE
8
Milk: Prefix : LACT
9
Not many : ONEORTWO
10
Béarnaise ingredient : SHALLOT
11
Start of a holy name : DALAI
12
Fashion mode : ALINE
13
"Hyperion" poet : KEATS
18
Friend of Nancy : AMI
22
Some antiques : PERIODPIECES
24
Enumeration abbr. : ETC
26
Helped with a line : CUED
27
Brynhild's brother, in myth : ATLI
29
Tiny, informally : ITSY
31
Yummy : GOOD
32
Dental worker : HYGIENIST
33
What a folder wouldn't say : IMIN
34
Little kick : TANG
37
Discomfiting : ABASHING
41
Like water or wind : ERODENT
42
Gives a hand : DEALSTO
44
Org. with many schedules : IRS
46
Least buggy : SANEST
47
Crossing swords : ATWAR
48
Sang-froid : POISE
49
Dragon's blood, e.g. : RESIN
51
Job for a tailor : RIP
53
Chimp in space : ENOS
55
Responses to some calls : BOOS
56
Frank or Francis : ANNE
59
South Korea's Roh ___ Woo : TAE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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