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New York Times, Tuesday, August 20, 1996

Author:
S. Spadaccini
Editor:
Will Shortz
3-Down : Milwaukee profession
TotalDebutLatest
441/27/197710/5/1999
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
016184312
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.54126814%
Stephanie Spadaccini

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {FJQZ} This is puzzle # 16 for Ms. Spadaccini. Tuesday freshness: 10%
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© 1996, The New York Times8/20/96 ( No. 17,087 )
Across
1
Yak : GAB
4
Ending with Dixie : CRAT
8
Mountaineer's goal : ACME
12
Sharer's pronoun : OURS
14
Casanova : ROMEO
16
Item filed by a secretary? : NAIL
17
Hydrox rival : OREO
18
Whatsoever : ATALL
19
"___ hungry I could..." : IMSO
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Anger : IRE
24
Society page word : NEE
25
Sounds surprised : GASPS
27
Long- ___ owl : EARED
29
Designer Lauren : RALPH
33
Suffix with bombard : IER
34
Late Cabinet Secretary Aspin : LES
36
Exclamation from Beaver Cleaver : GEE
37
___ time (never) : ATNO
38
42
Captain Hook's assistant : SMEE
43
S.F.-to-Vegas dir. : ESE
44
Neither's partner : NOR
45
G.I.'s address : APO
46
Fight off : REPEL
48
Winona Horowitz's professional name : RYDER
52
Word with time or memory : LAPSE
54
Sturdy tree : ELM
56
First lady : EVE
57
62
Linguistics branch: Abbr. : ETYM
63
Whiff : AROMA
64
Interlaken's river : AARE
65
Turn down officially : VETO
66
"___ is an island..." : NOMAN
67
Owllike : WISE
68
The Mideast's Gulf of ___ : ADEN
69
Transmitted : SENT
70
Actor Herbert : LOM
Down
1
Sweet treat : GOODIE
2
The dawn : AURORA
3
Milwaukee profession : BREWER
4
"The Bridge" poet Hart : CRANE
5
No-goodnik : ROTTER
6
Oriental nurse : AMAH
7
Phone or photo preceder : TELE
8
Jung's feminine component : ANIMA
9
Place for tents : CAMPSITE
10
Squander : MISSPEND
11
"Hold On Tight" rock group : ELO
13
Family boy : SON
15
Aged : OLD
21
Encyclopedia volume : INDEX
22
"Yuck!" : UGH
26
Sold-out sign : SRO
28
Gen. Robt. ___ : ELEE
30
Go along (with) : AGREE
31
Hawaiian accessory : LEI
32
Hammer end : PEEN
35
Graf ___ : SPEE
37
"___ in the Dark" : ACRY
38
Influenced, with "on" : IMPACTED
39
Beginner : NEOPHYTE
40
Sixth sense : ESP
41
Bellini opera : NORMA
42
Mule of song : SAL
46
Kind of room : REC
47
___ Brothers (investment firm) : LEHMAN
49
Bit of info : DETAIL
50
Very : EVERSO
51
Turn in for money, as bonds : REDEEM
53
Senor Bolivar : SIMON
55
Inclined : LEANT
58
Neb. neighbor : KAN
59
Cupid : EROS
60
Alaska gold rush town : NOME
61
In its natural state : RAW
62
Senora Peron : EVA

Answer summary:
3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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