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New York Times, Saturday, August 30, 1997

Author:
Matt Gaffney
Editor:
Will Shortz
12-Down : Ointment ingredient
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
587/24/19949/6/20001
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1401615157
ScrabDebutFresh
1.6152461%
Matt Gaffney

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 27 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 38 for Mr. Gaffney. Saturday freshness: 72%
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© 1997, The New York Times8/30/97 ( No. 17,462 )
Across
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Big name in newspaper publishing : SCRIPPS
8
Is unintelligible : GABBLES
15
Milne moniker : THEPOOH
16
Away, in a way : ONLEAVE
17
Cash of country and western : ROSANNE
18
Blown away : STUNNED
19
Prominent couple : ALANDTIPPERGORE
21
Smooth : FILE
22
___-Ball : SKEE
23
Farm machine : BALER
24
Hostile : ENEMY
26
Leading port of old Morocco : SALE
28
Wagons-___ : LITS
29
Opening word : SESAME
31
Change one's coat? : REPAINT
33
Film container : CAN
35
King, in Portugal : REI
36
Paid back : REBATED
40
Maroon : ENISLE
45
Apostle of the Franks : REMI
46
Emulated Janet Evans : SWAM
48
East-west road through St. Paul : USTEN
49
"What ___!" : AMESS
51
Nanking nanny : AMAH
53
"You ___?" : RANG
54
Where the Carpathian Mountains begin : NORTHERNROMANIA
57
Old warship : TRIREME
58
One who's blessed : SNEEZER
59
City on the Columbia River : ASTORIA
60
First Navy submarine, with "the" : HOLLAND
61
Ads that offer "free" gifts : TEASERS
62
Left Bank denizen : ARTISTE
Down
1
Attacks, in a way : STRAFES
2
B complex vitamin : CHOLINE
3
Lot transactions : RESALES
4
Famed Rio beach : IPANEMA
5
Mere : POND
6
Seine crossers : PONTS
7
Some oil barons : SHEIKS
8
Evangelist : GOSPELER
9
Penny, perhaps : ANTE
10
This may be found on a jacket : BLURB
11
Director Satyajit Ray's native tongue : BENGALI
12
Ointment ingredient : LANOLIN
13
"Medical Center" star : EVERETT
14
Exodus commemorations : SEDERS
20
Fruit basket selection : PEAR
25
Disco perennial : YMCA
27
Item of Olympic equipment : EPEE
30
Chow : EATS
32
Hokkaido people : AINU
34
Emerging fields, as of research : NEWAREAS
36
Sentence modifier, at times : REMORSE
37
Retired : EMERITA
38
Left Bank hangouts : BISTROS
39
Butler's last word : DAMN
41
Sharon, e.g. : ISRAELI
42
Canzone parts : STANZAS
43
Easy : LENIENT
44
Warning, of a sort : ENGARDE
45
Harangue : RANTAT
47
Playwright Norman : MARSHA
50
Hite of sexuality : SHERE
52
Accept : HONOR
55
Boss man of Ajman : EMIR
56
Get all teary-eyed : MELT

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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