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New York Times, Thursday, April 30, 1998

Author:
Kelly Clark
Editor:
Will Shortz
9-Down : O'Neal/Streisand comedy, appropriately
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Kelly Clark

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FJQZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Clark. Thursday freshness: 3%
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© 1998, The New York Times4/30/98 ( No. 17,705 )
Across
1
"Hasta luego!" : TATA
5
Like Mozart's flute : MAGIC
10
Elhi orgs. : PTAS
14
Riffraff : SCUM
15
College town near Bangor : ORONO
16
Mock words of enlightenment : AHSO
17
Prefix with lateral : AMBI
18
Position : STAND
19
Summer job seeker, often : TEEN
20
Don sackcloth and ashes : REPENT
22
Lunchbox alternative : PAPERBAG
24
Trojans' sch. : USC
25
Porky's love : PETUNIA
26
Blvd. crossers : STS
28
Mary Todd's love : ABE
30
Shakespearean suffix : EST
31
Big bang producer : TNT
34
It's dead, some say : CHIVALRY
37
Overly : TOOTOO
39
Penta- plus one : HEXA
40
Last of a series : OMEGA
42
Coal site : VEIN
43
Gilligan's boat : MINNOW
45
Run through : REHEARSE
47
Pedro might pan for it : ORO
48
Clock-setting std. : GMT
50
Erie Lackawanna, e.g.: Abbr. : RWY
51
Toady's response : YES
52
Publicist's handout : RELEASE
55
Two-time U.S. Open winner : ELS
57
Added to a recording : DUBBEDIN
59
"Hurray!" : IDIDIT
62
Black-and-white treat : OREO
63
Vastness : OCEAN
65
Pro ___ : BONO
66
Govt. watchdog : OSHA
67
Hit plenty hard : WHACK
68
Feminine org. since the 1850's : YWCA
69
Dillon of "Wild Things" : MATT
70
Some shoes : NIKES
71
Art school subj. : ANAT
Down
1
Peter, for one : TSAR
2
Ne plus ultra : ACME
3
With 11-Down, "On the Town" lyric, appropriately : TUBPUSIXNORBEHT
4
Cannes confidantes : AMIES
5
Lion's share : MOST
6
Emerson's "jealous mistress" : ART
7
Freak out : GOAPE
8
Not learned : INNATE
9
O'Neal/Streisand comedy, appropriately : CODPUSTAHW
10
Gloria ___ (lesser doxology) : PATRI
11
See 3-Down : THEBATTERYSDOWN
12
Between ports : ASEA
13
Tin Pan Alley product : SONG
21
Orange Bowl org. : NCAA
23
Opposite of exo- : ENTO
25
Salon service : PERM
26
Jerk : SCHMO
27
Not our : THEIR
29
Comment from Popeye, appropriately : BLOWMEDOWN
32
Kind of pollution : NOISE
33
Steps on a scale? : TONES
35
U-Haul unit : VAN
36
"So's ___ old man!" : YER
38
Macrogametes : OVA
41
"Sommersby" star : GERE
44
Rubberneck : OGLE
46
Argus-___ (vigilant) : EYED
49
Chinese exercises : TAICHI
53
W.W. II torpedo vessel : EBOAT
54
Kind of preview : SNEAK
56
Gulf of Sidra locale : LIBYA
57
Bad end : DOOM
58
___ Minor : URSA
59
Some are indelible : INKS
60
Machu Picchu resident : INCA
61
Exactly : TOAT
64
Whiz : ACE

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

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