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New York Times, Thursday, June 19, 1997

Author:
Patrick Jordan
Editor:
Will Shortz
48-Down : Actress Langtry
TotalDebutLatest
163/19/19966/4/2001
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0363400
CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.635523%
Patrick Jordan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Jordan. Thursday freshness: 9%
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© 1997, The New York Times6/19/97 ( No. 17,390 )
Across
1
Deep-six : SCRAP
6
"I Ain't Marching Anymore" singer : OCHS
10
Exult (over) : CROW
14
Puppeteer Lewis : SHARI
15
Versifier : POET
16
Hearty companion : HALE
17
Golden Horde member : TATAR
18
It begins "In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia..." : EZRA
19
"O patria mia" singer : AIDA
20
General description of a 26-, 46- or 53-Across : FANCYDRESSER
23
"___! Come back!" (1953 movie line) : SHANE
25
Diner : EATERY
26
See 20-Across : CLOTHESHORSE
30
Come apart : RIP
31
Promo pro : ADMAN
32
"Have a good time!" : ENJOY
36
Like good burgundy : AGED
38
Trig ratios : SINES
40
Gilbert of "Roseanne" : SARA
41
Catalogue illustration : MODEL
43
Carries : TOTES
45
Sidekick : PAL
46
See 20-Across : FASHIONPLATE
49
Pitch tents : ENCAMP
52
Le Quai des Tuileries adjoins it : SEINE
53
See 20-Across : BEAUBRUMMELL
57
Dark forces : EVIL
58
Promise, e.g. : OLEO
59
Extreme : ULTRA
63
It may be due on a duplex : RENT
64
Part of CPU : UNIT
65
Some athletic shoes : NIKES
66
It precedes quatro, in Rio : TRES
67
Raspberry ___ : TART
68
Certain retirement plan : KEOGH
Down
1
747 alternative : SST
2
Part of a repeated dance movement : CHA
3
Deserter : RAT
4
1994 Peace Nobelist : ARAFAT
5
It might bite the hand that feeds it : PIRANHA
6
Trade grp. since 9/14/60 : OPEC
7
Homey : COZY
8
What a drover drives : HERD
9
Rude one : STARER
10
Jumps on : CHASTENS
11
More chips for the pot : RAISE
12
Born earlier (than) : OLDER
13
Pooped : WEARY
21
Base negotiating amounts : NEEDS
22
Slip (into) : EASE
23
Irish county : SLIGO
24
Crossed one's fingers : HOPED
26
Stuff : CRAM
27
Farrier, e.g. : SMITH
28
Tonkin delta city : HANOI
29
"You're ___ talk!" : ONETO
33
40's foe : JAPAN
34
Spiel : ORATE
35
Brown alternative : YALE
37
Bankers' woes : DEFAULTS
39
"Get" : SENSE
42
Naive one : LAMB
44
Explore caves : SPELUNK
47
Little one : SPROUT
48
Actress Langtry : LILLIE
49
First president of the German republic, 1919 : EBERT
50
"When pigs fly!" : NEVER
51
Queeg's minesweeper : CAINE
54
Skeletal unit : ULNA
55
Former Israeli P.M. : MEIR
56
Street in New York's Chinatown : MOTT
60
W.B.A. decision : TKO
61
Coffee order: Abbr. : REG
62
Mountain ___ : ASH

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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