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New York Times, Tuesday, April 1, 1997

Author:
Patrick Jordan
Editor:
Will Shortz
56-Down : Susan of "Looker"
TotalDebutLatest
163/19/19966/4/2001
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0363400
CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.635523%
Patrick Jordan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {GX} Spans: 3 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Jordan. Tuesday freshness: 59%
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© 1997, The New York Times4/1/97 ( No. 17,311 )
Across
1
Start to form, as a storm : BREW
5
"___-Dick" : MOBY
9
Christie's Miss Marple : JANE
13
Exude : OOZE
14
Village Voice award : OBIE
15
Miser Marner : SILAS
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Where this answer goes : BACKTOSQUAREONE
19
Singing syllable : TRA
20
Mysterious loch : NESS
21
Utah mountains : UINTAS
22
Villa d'___ : ESTE
23
Up to the task : ABLE
24
Goodyear fleet : BLIMPS
27
Train storage area : RAILYARD
31
W.W.II hero Murphy : AUDIE
32
Seas, to Cousteau : MERS
33
Go a-courtin' : WOO
34
What this answer does : COMESFULLCIRCLE
38
Suffix with ranch : ERO
39
"...unto us ___ is given" : ASON
40
Contemptible one : LOUSE
41
Narrow-necked bottle : DEMIJOHN
44
Cried like a baby : MEWLED
45
Word with slicker or hall : CITY
46
Guns, as an engine : REVS
47
"Lucky" dice rolls : SEVENS
50
___ over (carry through) : TIDE
51
Point of decline : EBB
54
What this answer seems to have : ROUNDTRIPTICKET
57
Book with legends : ATLAS
58
The triple in a triple play : OUTS
59
Author Bagnold : ENID
60
Exude : SEEP
61
Phoenix neighbor : MESA
62
Thanksgiving dishes : YAMS
Down
1
Ring engagement : BOUT
2
First sound in an M-G-M film : ROAR
3
Poet Pound : EZRA
4
Little piggy's cry : WEE
5
Some MOMA paintings : MONETS
6
More than plump : OBESE
7
Strained pea catchers : BIBS
8
Biblical affirmative : YEA
9
Small bus : JITNEY
10
Heaps : ALOT
11
Cape Canaveral org. : NASA
12
Gentlemen: Abbr. : ESQS
15
Expertise : SKILL
17
Without obligation : ONSPEC
18
Picasso-Braque movement : CUBISM
22
Bahrain bigwig : EMIR
23
Hammerin' Hank : AARON
24
Bundled, as straw : BALED
25
Riches : LUCRE
26
Manner of speaking : IDIOM
27
Scouting mission : RECON
28
Horrendous : AWFUL
29
Stir from slumber : ROUSE
30
Parceled (out) : DOLED
32
Like fine netting : MESHY
35
Chinese philosopher : LAOTSE
36
Football team quorum : ELEVEN
37
Starts a crop : SOWS
42
Polar feature : ICECAP
43
Pixie and Dixie's nemesis, in the cartoons : JINKS
44
Mythological woman with unruly hair : MEDUSA
46
Laughfests : RIOTS
47
Mineral springs : SPAS
48
Suffix with cigar : ETTE
49
Reprehensible : VILE
50
Veracious : TRUE
51
Sicilian peak : ETNA
52
Cup lip : BRIM
53
Political campaigns : BIDS
55
Mr. Turkey : TOM
56
Susan of "Looker" : DEY

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

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