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New York Times, Wednesday, April 24, 1996

Author:
G. Dean
Editor:
Will Shortz
49-Down : One with a sting operation?
TotalDebutLatest
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Gayle Dean

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQY} This is puzzle # 30 for Ms. Dean. Wednesday freshness: 19%
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O
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C
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T
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A
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© 1996, The New York Times4/24/96 ( No. 16,969 )
Across
1
Prefix with -genarian : OCTO
5
Mercury model : SABLE
10
Braid : PLAT
14
No longer new : WORN
15
Bay window : ORIEL
16
Unhinged : LOCO
17
Put out : EMIT
18
Esteemed fish escort? : CODOFHONOR
20
Capital on the Barada River : DAMASCUS
22
Declares : AVERS
23
Map features: Abbr. : RTES
24
Italy's Gulf of___ : SALERNO
26
Let the baby fish beware? : CAVIAREMPTOR
30
You can believe it : AXIOM
31
Ready follower : AIM
32
Filet, maybe : SOLE
36
Energy : PEP
37
Horticulturist's box : PLANTER
41
Lend a hand : AID
42
Otherwise : ELSE
44
Japanese novelist ___Kobo : ABE
45
Wan : ASHEN
47
Musical TV fish game? : NAMETHATTUNA
51
Eared flask : COSTREL
54
Opole's river : ODER
55
Kind of nerve : OPTIC
56
Slandered : TRADUCED
60
Fish's courting place? : PERCHSWING
63
Catch some Z's : DOZE
64
Ohio or New York county : ERIE
65
Martinique volcano : PELEE
66
Commits a faux pas : ERRS
67
Dupes : SAPS
68
Eggs on : ABETS
69
Security breach : LEAK
Down
1
Had to give it to? : OWED
2
Robin Cook best seller : COMA
3
In good condition : TRIM
4
Thunder Bay locale : ONTARIO
5
Kin of rugby : SOCCER
6
Stir up : AROUSE
7
Some auction action : BIDS
8
Constellation with the star Regulus : LEO
9
Toymaker's assistant : ELF
10
Shorebirds : PLOVERS
11
Not the social type : LONER
12
Squirrel's prize : ACORN
13
Certain sculpture : TORSO
19
Nimbus : HALO
21
Characteristic mark : STAMP
24
Rain slightly : SPIT
25
Tommy Dorsey's "Oh, Look___Now" : ATME
26
Garment for Batman : CAPE
27
Figure skating jump : AXEL
28
Bigwigs : VIPS
29
"Absinthe Drinker" artist : MANET
33
Site of the Koolau Range : OAHU
34
Debt security : LIEN
35
Novelist Ferber : EDNA
38
Glittery fabric : LAME
39
Spy Rudolf : ABEL
40
Graded : RATED
43
Tempts : ENTICES
46
Pastry whose name means "whirlpool" : STRUDEL
48
Principal : ARCH
49
One with a sting operation? : HORNET
50
Sayings : ADAGES
51
Contends (with) : COPES
52
"Ernani," e.g. : OPERA
53
Mobius piece : STRIP
56
Grouter's target : TILE
57
Reactor part : CORE
58
Poet Pound : EZRA
59
Office station : DESK
61
Whirlpool : SPA
62
Modern information source, with "the" : WEB

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

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