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New York Times, Friday, May 9, 1997

Author:
Richard Hughes
Editor:
Will Shortz
14-Down : Casements
TotalDebutLatest
3511/8/19944/2/2007
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ScrabDebutFresh
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Richard Hughes

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JKQWXZ} This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Hughes. Friday freshness: 7%
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© 1997, The New York Times5/9/97 ( No. 17,349 )
Across
1
Lived it up : HADABLAST
10
Wedge-shaped inserts : SHIMS
15
Too keen : OVEREAGER
16
Site of two of the Ancient Wonders : IONIA
17
Ace : HOLEINONE
18
Slag : DROSS
19
Put ___ ease : ONEAT
20
Tore : RAN
21
Third rock from the sun : EARTH
22
Toward the end : LATTER
24
Rap's Dr. ___ : DRE
25
Marching band instruments : FIFES
29
Detects : ESPIES
31
Italian count? : UNODUETRE
35
Actress Balin : INA
36
Commando's outing : RAID
37
He was Amin guy : IDI
38
Crate component : SLAT
39
CNN parent co. : TBS
40
Partner : ASSOCIATE
42
Spoiled rotten : BRATTY
44
Hungry : UNFED
45
It's equal to 100 ergs per gram : RAD
46
Deeply personal : INMOST
50
Ford's folly? : EDSEL
52
First name in coaching : ARA
53
"___ Andy Warhol" (1996 movie) : ISHOT
58
Buddha's birthplace : NEPAL
59
Discordant : NOTINTUNE
61
Herd : DROVE
62
Mesmerized : INATRANCE
63
Sandburg's "farewell-summer flower" : ASTER
64
Called into question : CONTESTED
Down
1
Jolly sound : HOHO
2
Calling company? : AVON
3
Strike out : DELE
4
Field : AREA
5
"___ ever so humble..." : BEIT
6
Airline to Chile : LAN
7
Site of the Temple of Hephaestus : AGORA
8
Foreign assembly : SENAT
9
Ontario's ___ Canal : TRENT
10
Certain home improvers : SIDERS
11
Ring dance : HORA
12
Excessive : INORDINATE
13
Was unkind to : MISTREATED
14
Casements : SASHES
22
Shaq's alma mater : LSU
23
Really big shoe : EEE
25
Hudson's Bay Company, e.g. : FURTRADERS
26
Poorly situated : INABADSPOT
27
Impose : FOIST
28
Roush of the Reds : EDD
30
Risotto alternative : PILAF
32
It may block the Rhein : EIS
33
Fall sports stats : TDS
34
"Wild Orchid" locale, 1990 : RIO
38
Fall from grace : SIN
40
Author Rand : AYN
41
Director's cry : CUT
42
Rhoda's sister : BRENDA
43
Rudder attachment : TILLER
47
Frenzied : MANIC
48
Northeast college town : ORONO
49
Prince of Darkness : SATAN
51
Sun shade : EAVE
53
About : INRE
54
L.I.R.R. stops : STAS
55
Stalk : HUNT
56
Years ago : ONCE
57
Prepared to drive, with "up" : TEED
60
Multinational business inits. : ITT

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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