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New York Times, Saturday, July 15, 1995

Author:
Rand H. Burns
Editor:
Will Shortz
8-Down : Phantom
TotalDebutLatest
276/3/19937/17/1999
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11.54113675%
Rand H. Burns

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 27 Missing: {QVXZ} Spans: 2 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry. This is puzzle # 18 for Mr. Burns. Saturday freshness: 86%
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© 1995, The New York Times7/15/95 ( No. 16,685 )
Across
1
Brat's feature : PUGNOSE
8
Slackened : EASEDUP
15
Ballet headliners : ETOILES
16
Paradiso's counterpart : INFERNO
17
Relents : SOFTENS
18
Articulate : DECLARE
19
U.S.N. noncoms : CPOS
20
Cause to attack : SETON
22
Mighty hit : SWAT
23
Show : AIR
24
November and Y, e.g. : PENULTS
26
Social attachment : ITE
27
Tax determinant, in Britain : RATAL
29
Board member, for short : CEO
30
Infamous 1972 hurricane : AGNES
32
Southern corn bread : ASHCAKE
34
Hunters : NIMRODS
36
Consequently : ERGO
37
Wall-less : OPEN
38
Camp ___, N.C. : LEJEUNE
41
Fast food staple : BURGERS
44
Divert : AMUSE
45
Information-gathering grp. : CIA
47
Examine : ASSAY
48
River craft : TUG
49
Noted dictator and namesakes : SADDAMS
52
Car engine stats: Abbr. : HPS
53
Whop, in a way : CLUB
55
Spinal cord: Prefix : MYELO
56
Zodiac symbol : GOAT
57
Iodized salt compounds : HALIDES
59
On-the-job trainee : INTERNE
61
And elsewhere : ETALIBI
62
Tin : STANNUM
63
Sancho Panza's wife et al. : TERESAS
64
Pacific ___ (one of the Baby Bells) : TELESIS
Down
1
Italian port on the Adriatic : PESCARA
2
Avalon and others : UTOPIAS
3
Attack directly : GOFORTHEJUGULAR
4
Basketball tournaments : NITS
5
1946 song "___ Buttermilk Sky" : OLE
6
Intuit : SENSE
7
Quiddity : ESSENCE
8
Phantom : EIDOLON
9
Regarding : ANENT
10
Army E-7 : SFC
11
Sushi provisions : EELS
12
Retreat : DRAWINONESHORNS
13
Not in the top whatever : UNRATED
14
Anne Bradstreet, e.g. : POETESS
21
Calendar abbr. : TUE
24
Beleaguers : PLAGUES
25
1993-94 Wimbledon champ : SAMPRAS
28
"Green ___" : ACRES
31
Baseball's Luzinski et al. : GREGS
33
"___ Tiki" : KON
35
Cash alternative : IOU
38
Shoe strap, in olden times : LATCHET
39
Use as a model : EMULATE
40
Molting : ECDYSIS
41
Idolater : BAALIST
42
Native name of Easter Island : RAPANUI
43
Methodologies : SYSTEMS
46
Chemical suffix : IDE
50
Single-celled critter : AMEBA
51
Form of faro : MONTE
54
Peevishness : BILE
56
Allele : GENE
58
Belittle, slangily : DIS
60
Chess champ Mikhail : TAL

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 8 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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