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New York Times, Saturday, September 13, 1997

Author:
Dave Tuller
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Down : Go over
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.6011065%
Dave Tuller

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JKQ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Tuller. Saturday freshness: 41%
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© 1997, The New York Times9/13/97 ( No. 17,476 )
Across
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Rear ends : BEHINDS
8
Agog : BUGEYED
15
Vanessa Redgrave film of 1968 : ISADORA
16
Tombstone locale : ARIZONA
17
In trouble, in slang : SCREWED
18
Lie : UNTRUTH
19
Chance occurrences : HAPS
20
Sister in "Sisters" : ALEX
22
Signal in a courtroom : GAVEL
23
48-Down, in poetry : OPE
24
First name in exploration : AMERIGO
26
"___ tu" : ERI
27
Commit : PERPETRATE
29
Portuguese India territory : GOA
30
Partition : SEVER
31
Faience glaze ingredient : TIN
32
A bundle : TONS
33
Long time : AEONS
36
Point at a shoe store : CLEAT
38
[I'm scared!] : GULP
40
Bee: Prefix : API
42
Muffler : SCARF
45
Atlantis was one: Abbr. : ISL
46
Offensive : DISGUSTFUL
49
Bigger than med. : LGE
50
U.S. Army landing point, 9/9/43 : SALERNO
51
It comes in strands : RNA
52
Free silver champion : BRYAN
54
Sheepherding locales : LEAS
55
Shrivel : WILT
56
Viceroyalty that included Argentina : LAPLATA
58
Eye : STAREAT
60
Adjective for some lens cleaners : ANTIFOG
61
Thick cornmeal mush : POLENTA
62
Act : STATUTE
63
Stretcher at the gym : SPANDEX
Down
1
Men staying on one color : BISHOPS
2
Indiana Jones, often : ESCAPEE
3
1968 #1 hit : HARPERVALLEYPTA
4
Time of the month : IDES
5
Cousin of "Well..." : NOW
6
Imagined : DREAMT
7
___'s Wells (renowned London theater) : SADLER
8
Like most aluminum ore : BAUXITIC
9
Beverage server : URN
10
Beginning, informally : GITGO
11
Jerusalem visitor from the Persian court : EZRA
12
1971 #1 hit : YOUVEGOTAFRIEND
13
Begin as an adventure : ENTERON
14
Showy flowers : DAHLIAS
21
Was, in Latin : ERAT
24
___ Flite (bicycle brand) : AERO
25
Robt. E. Lee, e.g. : GENL
28
Budding twitter : PEEP
32
Peacekeeping skill : TACT
34
Zippo : NADA
35
Result of a kitchen accident : SPILLAGE
37
U.S. brand retired in 1972 : ESSO
38
Adventurer of 18th-century French literature : GILBLAS
39
Commander at Shiloh : USGRANT
41
"Aha!" : ISEE
43
Go over : RUNLATE
44
1996 campaign issue : FLATTAX
47
Savvies : GRASPS
48
Clear : UNSTOP
50
Bollix : SNAFU
53
Made it to the ground : ALIT
55
Astronomer-turned-architect : WREN
57
Little one : TOT
59
___ broche (cooking style) : ALA

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2 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later.

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