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New York Times, Saturday, June 20, 1998

Author:
Cathy Millhauser
Editor:
Will Shortz
14-Down : They're brilliant
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Cathy Allis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JKQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 45 for Ms. Allis. Saturday freshness: 8%
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© 1998, The New York Times6/20/98 ( No. 17,756 )
Across
1
Parentheses, e.g. : ARCS
5
What partyers raise : HELL
9
Part of a defense : MOAT
13
Makes a bundle : BALES
15
Suffix with buck : AROO
16
Jason's craft : ARGO
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How Robin Hood won some contests? : BYANARROWMARGIN
20
Many surgical procedures : REMOVALS
21
Fuel gas : BUTANE
22
Go ballistic : RAGE
23
TV guides, nowadays : RATINGS
24
Dyed brown? : DIDANUMBERON
28
Settle down : ROOST
29
Mail letters : RFD
30
Poker player's declaration : IMIN
34
Cobbler's tool : AWL
35
Kind of nerve : SCIATIC
39
Hoopla : ADO
40
Power unit : WATT
42
Folk rock's ___ DiFranco : ANI
43
Lit : OILED
45
Failed as a corn farmer? : HADANEARMISS
49
Poetic analogies : SIMILES
52
"Arterio-" counterpart : VENO
53
Mythical character in "The Inferno" : CHARON
54
Of an orbital point : PERIGEAL
58
What Frosty's friends said about him? : HESSUCHANICEGUY
60
It holds a yard : MAST
61
Pianist Gilels : EMIL
62
Messenger of Gott : ENGEL
63
Cinnabar, taconite, etc. : ORES
64
Fishing boat : DORY
65
Fictional surname of 1847 : EYRE
Down
1
This answer, for instance : ABBR
2
Zany Martha : RAYE
3
Smacker : CLAM
4
Married mujeres : SENORAS
5
Cotton Club site : HARLEM
6
Love child? : EROS
7
Blue : LOW
8
Annual college football award : LOMBARDI
9
Popular cocktail : MARTINI
10
Generous donation : ORGAN
11
Winery process : AGING
12
Color or coloratura variations : TONES
14
They're brilliant : SAVANTS
18
Certain sauce : RAGU
19
Prefix with focus : AUTO
23
Taken by force, old-style : REFT
24
Western command : DRAW
25
Part of the Corn Belt : IOWA
26
Airhead : DOLT
27
Egghead : BRAIN
31
African country : MALI
32
One 13th? : IDES
33
Acceptances : NODS
36
Rhythmic : CADENCED
37
Claire and Balin : INAS
38
Entablature top : CORNICE
41
Yens : THIRSTS
44
Half of a 1950's comedy team : IMOGENE
46
1968-69 Pirates All-Star : ALOU
47
Half-and-half : EVENLY
48
Gas: Prefix : AERI
49
Jerk : SCHMO
50
Audio translation : IHEAR
51
Tricky billiard shot : MASSE
54
Match : PAIR
55
Like some batters : EGGY
56
Violinist Leopold : AUER
57
Sparky who pitched : LYLE
59
Medical provider grp. : HMO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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