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New York Times, Wednesday, June 26, 1996

Author:
P. Jordan
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Down : Most docile
TotalDebutLatest
163/19/19966/4/2001
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0363400
CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.635523%
Patrick Jordan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQVZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Jordan. Wednesday freshness: 6%
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© 1996, The New York Times6/26/96 ( No. 17,032 )
Across
1
Puts a limit on : CAPS
5
Duroc domiciles : STIES
10
Vaudeville segments : ACTS
14
Atlas section : ASIA
15
Busch Gardens locale : TAMPA
16
Wife of Jacob : LEAH
17
Reinstate : STET
18
Screened messages? : EMAIL
19
Culp/Cosby TV series : ISPY
20
Breakfast order at the Storybook Cafe? : PETERPANCAKES
23
Clear : ERASE
24
Star Wars initials : SDI
25
Where to get a draught : PUB
28
T.L.C. dispensers : RNS
29
Mrs. David Copperfield : DORA
33
Park activity : STROLL
35
The Confessor king : EDWARD
37
Tops : AONE
38
Side order at the Storybook Cafe? : OLDKINGCOLESLAW
43
Military command : FIRE
44
Addled by age : SENILE
45
Pentecost events : FEASTS
48
Where to nosh on a knish : DELI
49
Hill builder : ANT
52
"I am," to Descartes : SUM
53
Battering beam : RAM
55
Hebrew prophet : HOSEA
57
Dessert order at the Storybook Cafe? : ALIBABAAURHUM
62
Garden entrance : GATE
64
Andean animal : LLAMA
65
Barrel diameter : BORE
66
Center of a revolution : AXIS
67
Kind of down : EIDER
68
Greek love god : EROS
69
The shakers, e.g. : SECT
70
Public embarrassment : SCENE
71
Fender flaw : DENT
Down
1
Wyoming's largest city : CASPER
2
To the rear : ASTERN
3
Some Renaissance works : PIETAS
4
Gorges : SATES
5
Authur Murray lesson : STEP
6
Author Janowitz : TAMA
7
One-named model : IMAN
8
DeMille specialties : EPICS
9
Leafy courses : SALADS
10
"I cannot tell___" : ALIE
11
Sump : CESSPOOL
12
Open, as a keg : TAP
13
Deficient : SHY
21
___-Wip (dessert topping) : REDDI
22
Medic's bag : KIT
26
Armbone : ULNA
27
Huffed and puffed : BLEW
30
Have deed to : OWN
31
Start of an Alger story? : RAGS
32
In a trajectory : ARCED
34
Level, in Leeds : RASE
35
Stretches, with "out" : EKES
36
"It's a deal!" : DONE
38
Switch settings : OFFS
39
Stead : LIEU
40
Striking in effect : DRAMATIC
41
"___Darlin'" (jazz standard) : LIL
42
Root or Yale : ELIHU
46
Prefix with corn or corder : TRI
47
Luxurious furs : SABLES
49
Like sailors on leave : ASHORE
50
Impulse carrier : NEURON
51
Most docile : TAMEST
54
Kind of acid : MALIC
56
Spherical : ORBED
58
"___we forget..." : LEST
59
Invited : BADE
60
Prayer closing : AMEN
61
Swiss river : AARE
62
Shell product : GAS
63
It may swing in the jungle : AXE

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

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