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New York Times, Wednesday, May 8, 1996

Author:
R. Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
47-Down : Excludes
TotalDebutLatest
1894/27/19948/3/2024
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
31.571,11574%
Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 42 Missing: {VX} This is puzzle # 34 for Mr. Norris. Wednesday freshness: 22%
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© 1996, The New York Times5/8/96 ( No. 16,983 )
Across
1
Biblical verb ending : ETH
4
Dress : ATTIRE
10
Logician's abbr. : QED
13
Biblical pronoun : THEE
15
Confiscates : SEIZES
16
"What's the___?" : USE
17
Really solid : HARDASAROCK
19
Boor : APE
20
"Love Story" co-star : ONEAL
21
Change colors : REDYE
22
Phys ed : GYM
23
Tar : SEAMAN
25
Put in an all-nighter : CRAM
27
Operating at capacity : INFULLSWING
33
Singer McEntire : REBA
37
Bud Grace comic strip : ERNIE
38
___da capo : ARIA
39
Goofs : ERRS
40
Handicapper's hangout: Abbr. : OTB
41
Retained : KEPT
42
Broadcast : EMIT
43
Hog hangouts : STIES
45
Former name at the pumps : ESSO
46
Acknowledged responsibility : FACEDTHERAP
49
Zone : AREA
50
Big name in typewriters : CORONA
55
Position : JOB
57
Military muckamucks : BRASS
61
Fleet : RAPID
62
Scull : OAR
63
Similar but unspecified things : ALLTHATJAZZ
65
Depot: Abbr. : STA
66
Cash in, as chips : REDEEM
67
Not aweather : ALEE
68
PC panic button : ESC
69
Visit : STOPBY
70
Grads-to-be: Abbr. : SRS
Down
1
System of beliefs : ETHOS
2
Title for Macbeth : THANE
3
"___cow, there a cow..." : HEREA
4
Beast of burden : ASS
5
Rip : TEAR
6
Kind of pump : TIRE
7
___Lacoste : IZOD
8
Environmental buzzword : RECYCLE
9
Geological ridges : ESKERS
10
Swamps : QUAGMIRES
11
Wordsmith Willard : ESPY
12
Reckon : DEEM
14
Mild cheese : EDAM
18
Jai___ : ALAI
24
Vane dir. : NNE
26
With eyes open : AWAKE
28
Suds : FROTH
29
Let loose : UNTIE
30
Legal record book : LIBER
31
Bites : NIPS
32
Cat, in Castile : GATO
33
Cause of grounding : REEF
34
Writer Bombeck : ERMA
35
Curios : BRICABRAC
36
Fall bloomer : ASTER
43
Budding actress : STARLET
44
Pouch : SAC
47
Excludes : DEBARS
48
Dessert wine : PORT
51
Hindu nobility : RAJA
52
October birthstones : OPALS
53
"My Life in Court" author : NIZER
54
Cutting tools : ADZES
55
Canseco of baseball : JOSE
56
Feedbox filler : OATS
58
Actor Ray : ALDO
59
Measure : STEP
60
"The Purple People Eater" singer Wooley : SHEB
64
Irving of "Micki & Maude" : AMY

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

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