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New York Times, Saturday, August 2, 1997

Author:
Ed Early
Editor:
Will Shortz
24-Down : Catherine the Great's successor
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
557/7/19947/14/20081
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1917117442
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5419532%
Ed Early

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JWXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Early. Saturday freshness: 9%
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© 1997, The New York Times8/2/97 ( No. 17,434 )
Across
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Cartoonist with regular "Advice fo' Chillun" : CAPP
5
County of Redwood City, Calif. : SANMATEO
13
Pueblo jar : OLLA
14
Small spatulas : SPREADERS
15
Catafalque : BIER
16
Home-study vehicle : TELECOURSE
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Familiarize again : REACQUAINT
19
Propaganda, often : LIES
20
Chip in, in a way : ANTEUP
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Someone celebrated : TOAST
23
Painter and teacher of Botticelli : LIPPI
25
Shoe named for an antelope : REEBOK
29
Hotspur's slayer : HAL
32
They're in control of their faculties : DEANS
34
Tot's vehicle : TRIKE
35
Norse mariner : ERIC
37
King who ran for President, 1816 : RUFUS
39
Long ago : YORE
40
Fish prepared in strips : SCROD
42
Walks like Claudius : LIMPS
44
Dupe : SAP
45
Gumshoe : SHAMUS
47
"WarGames" org. : NORAD
49
Loren's husband : PONTI
51
Site of Lake Kyoga : UGANDA
55
Rapacious seabird : SKUA
58
Independent : AUTONOMOUS
60
Elated reaction : HANDSPRING
62
This is sometimes shocking : PINK
63
Repetitious : ITERATIVE
64
Relative of 55-Across : ERNE
65
Missile's payload container : NOSECONE
66
Instrumental piece : REED
Down
1
King ___ : COBRA
2
Weekly World News cover photo, maybe : ALIEN
3
Fold : PLEAT
4
Kind of post : PARCEL
5
"To boldly go where no man has gone before," e.g. : SPLITINFINITIVE
6
"There ___ atheists..." : ARENO
7
What honey-eaters eat : NECTAR
8
Kind of jacket : MAO
9
Subject of the Seventh Commandment : ADULTERY
10
Austin of "Knots Landing" : TERI
11
Hebrides language : ERSE
12
Suffix for abnormalities : OSES
14
Start for cow, horse, lion, dog or wolf : SEA
16
"Dream On" protagonist : TUPPER
18
Pounds : QUID
22
Lay : SET
24
Catherine the Great's successor : PAUL
26
Who's Who entries : BIOS
27
Plant also called lady's-finger : OKRA
28
Subsistence : KEEP
29
Spandau's last prisoner : HESS
30
Mischievous : ARCH
31
Trevi toss-in : LIRA
33
Ceremonial sport : SUMO
36
Tonto, to the Lone Ranger : COMPADRE
38
Out, in a way : SPRUNG
41
Tonto and the Lone Ranger : DUO
43
Palm starch : SAGO
46
Stop daydreaming : SNAPTO
48
Butterfly valve, e.g. : DAMPER
50
First capital of unified Italy : TURIN
52
Bete's couleur : NOIRE
53
"Addicted to Love" director : DUNNE
54
Put it to : ASKED
55
Ankle-knee connector : SHIN
56
Inspector Clouseau's valet : KATO
57
French articles : UNES
59
Together : ONE
61
Fluid container : SAC

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

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