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New York Times, Wednesday, March 20, 1996

Author:
G. Newman
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Down : "Dick Tracy" star
TotalDebutLatest
153/20/19965/18/2015
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.515732%
Gene Newman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQWXZ} Spans: 3 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Newman. Wednesday freshness: 92%
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G
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A
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L
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D
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U
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B
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C
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K
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L
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B
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Y
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M
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C
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A
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M
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B
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R
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B
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D
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© 1996, The New York Times3/20/96 ( No. 16,934 )
Across
1
Hollywood do : GALA
5
Coat, with "on" : DAUB
9
By surprise : ABACK
14
Favorite : IDOL
15
___facto : IPSO
16
Kind of pad : LEGAL
17
Heart of the matter : GIST
18
Jerk: Var. : SHMO
19
Bogart in "High Sierra" : EARLE
20
23
Linear : ONED
24
Toss (out) : CAST
25
Doyle's "___in Scarlet" : ASTUDY
28
Diner lunch order : BLT
29
"It's fun to stay at the___" (1978 song lyric) : YMCA
33
"Little Lulu" cartoonist : MARGE
34
50's Yankees great Hank : BAUER
36
Not in, in Innsbruck : AUS
37
40
PC key : ESC
41
Rummages (through) : ROOTS
42
Toot : SPREE
43
Campus org. : ROTC
45
Scheduled : DUE
46
Some 16th-century engravings : DURERS
47
"Looks like trouble" : OHOH
49
Japanese writing sticks : SUMI
50
57
"Smoking gun" : PROOF
58
Pitcher Wilhelm : HOYT
59
"The Art of Love" author : OVID
60
Exploded : BURST
61
English composer : ARNE
62
"So long" : TATA
63
Pants parts : SEATS
64
Tournament ranking : SEED
65
Leave rolling in the aisles : SLAY
Down
1
"Thank Heaven for Little Girls" musical : GIGI
2
Tennis score : ADIN
3
Without a clue : LOST
4
Notwithstanding that : ALTHOUGH
5
ABC's owner : DISNEY
6
It eats its vegetables : APHID
7
"Semper fi" grp. : USMC
8
Literary circles : BOOKCLUBS
9
Hebrew A's : ALEFS
10
"Dick Tracy" star : BEATTY
11
Farm prefix : AGRI
12
Not windy : CALM
13
"The Mocker Mocked" artist : KLEE
21
Make beloved : ENDEAR
22
Cowboy flick : OATER
25
Stoplight light : AMBER
26
Express authority : SAYSO
27
Pamphlet : TRACT
28
Thrash : BASTE
30
Part of Felipe's family : MADRE
31
More good-looking : CUTER
32
Hardwoods : ASHES
34
To-dos : BROUHAHAS
35
Job hunter's need : RESUME
38
Crystalline antiseptic : IODOL
39
California crop : APRICOTS
44
Regis or Kathie Lee : COHOST
46
Prepared to lift prints : DUSTED
48
Tests the weight of : HEFTS
49
Composer Jule : STYNE
50
P.D. alerts : APBS
51
Exact : TRUE
52
Part of a Japanese pilot's war cry : TORA
53
Resentful : SORE
54
Planetary path : OVAL
55
Actress Naldi : NITA
56
Normandy event : DDAY

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

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