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New York Times, Monday, August 10, 1998

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Down : Kansas City team
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531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JKQZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 21 for Mr. Quigley. Monday freshness: 38%
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R
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© 1998, The New York Times8/10/98 ( No. 17,807 )
Across
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"Spare" items at a barbecue : RIBS
5
Popular athletic shoes : AVIAS
10
Bullets and such : AMMO
14
Melville tale : OMOO
15
Beatle with a beat : RINGO
16
Many a Seattle weather forecast : RAIN
17
Classic pickup line #1 : YOURPLACEORMINE
20
"Six Days, Seven Nights" co-star : ANNEHECHE
21
Early night, to a poet : EEN
22
Permit: Abbr. : LIC
23
Prefix with -metric : ISO
24
Heavy hammer : SLEDGE
27
Proofreader's mark : STET
29
Not glossy, as a photo : MATTE
32
Captain Morgan's drink : RUM
33
"Norma ___" : RAE
36
Dish served under glass : PHEASANT
38
Classic pickup line #2 : WHATSYOURSIGN
41
Geometric measurement : DIAMETER
42
What Yahoo! searches, with "the" : NET
43
Whichever : ANY
44
___-off coupon : CENTS
46
Mets stadium : SHEA
50
Directs (to) : REFERS
52
Ecol. watchdog : EPA
55
The "I" in T.G.I.F. : ITS
56
Prefix with skeleton : EXO
57
Numbers usually in parentheses : AREACODES
60
Classic pickup line #3 : HAVEWEMETBEFORE
63
Pitcher : EWER
64
Genesis woman and namesakes : LEAHS
65
Allen of "Candid Camera" : FUNT
66
Smart-mouthed : PERT
67
Cove : INLET
68
Fr. holy women : STES
Down
1
Kansas City team : ROYALS
2
"Consider it done" : IMONIT
3
Dribble : BOUNCE
4
Achy : SORE
5
City where van Gogh painted : ARLES
6
Broadcasting giant : VIACOM
7
Ruler unit : INCH
8
Poet and novelist James : AGEE
9
Michigan's ___ Canals : SOO
10
Napoléon led one : ARMEE
11
Wisconsin Avenue, in Georgetown : MAINDRAG
12
Opposite of max. : MIN
13
Washington's bill : ONE
18
___ Beta Kappa : PHI
19
Let go of : RELEASE
24
Uncompromising : STERN
25
"Peter ___" of 50's-60's TV : GUNN
26
Ambulance driver, for short : EMT
28
Car on rails : TRAM
30
To the left, to sailors : APORT
31
Fri. preceder : THU
34
Suffered humiliation : ATECROW
35
___ Park, Colo. : ESTES
37
Takes a chair : SITS
38
Soave, e.g. : WINE
39
Spring woe : HAYFEVER
40
Liking : YEN
41
Flag-waving org. : DAR
45
Churn : SEETHE
47
Went into seclusion : HIDOUT
48
Endless, poetically : ETERNE
49
Liabilities' opposites : ASSETS
51
Put forth, as effort : EXERT
53
___ Blue Ribbon : PABST
54
Smashing point? : ACE
57
"You said it, brother!" : AMEN
58
Sincere : REAL
59
Murders, slangily : OFFS
60
Cool, once : HEP
61
Wonderment : AWE
62
___ Lilly and Company : ELI

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

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