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New York Times, Wednesday, September 20, 2000

Author:
Edgar R. Fontaine
Editor:
Will Shortz
47-Down : Dashboard abbr.
TotalDebutLatest
56/15/200011/18/2013
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0201110
ScrabDebutFresh
1.562033%
Edgar R. Fontaine

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JKQ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Fontaine. Wednesday freshness: 7%
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© 2000, The New York Times9/20/0 ( No. 18,579 )
Across
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Raft material : BALSA
6
José's home : CASA
10
Fill in time on stage : VAMP
14
It has a floor but no ceiling : OCEAN
15
Canned : AXED
16
Mozart's "Dalla sua pace," e.g. : ARIA
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O'Toole film playing in Sydney? : THELIONINSUMMER
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Vindictive Greek goddess : HERA
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Comme ci, comme ça : SOSO
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High times? : NOONS
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Villainous : MEAN
25
Moral anguish : REMORSE
27
Mercer tune sung in Sydney? : SPRINGLEAVES
31
Guadalajara gold : ORO
32
Dollface : DEAR
33
Forever, poetically : ETERNE
37
Attack deterrent : MOAT
39
Monsoonal : WET
41
Radio feature : DIAL
42
Newly : AFRESH
45
Burn slightly : CHAR
48
Prefix with athlete : TRI
49
Donahue film showing in Sydney? : AWINTERPLACE
52
Improvisational composition : TOCCATA
55
Site of the Piazza del Popolo : ROMA
56
Faith of 5 1/2 million Americans : ISLAM
57
"Jabberwocky," for one : POEM
59
"Have mercy on me!," e.g. : PLEA
63
Stravinsky ballet performed in Sydney? : THERITEOFAUTUMN
66
Campbell's soup instruction : HEAT
67
Grainy pasta : ORZO
68
Salk's target : POLIO
69
Listening devices : EARS
70
Hearing in open court : OYER
71
Turn back : SPURN
Down
1
Not just one : BOTH
2
Sign of old age : ACHE
3
Lascivious look : LEER
4
Antipasto staple : SALAMI
5
"Gimme ___!" (start of an Iowa State cheer) : ANI
6
Vatican dogma : CANONLAW
7
X or Y or Z : AXIS
8
Lady of a 6-Across : SENORA
9
Web site clutter : ADS
10
Skedaddled : VAMOOSED
11
Hard wear? : ARMOR
12
Comportments : MIENS
13
Analyze syntactically : PARSE
18
Siouan language : OSAGE
19
Not fulfilled : UNMET
24
Period's place : END
26
Christmas ___ : EVE
27
Body of an organism : SOMA
28
Lecturer, briefly : PROF
29
Rocket's sound : ROAR
30
Put up : ERECT
34
Singer Coolidge : RITA
35
Drug cop : NARC
36
Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
38
Wheeled servers : TEACARTS
40
In place of that : THEREFOR
43
Mystic : SWAMI
44
Best seller : HIT
46
Bouquet : AROMA
47
Dashboard abbr. : RPM
50
Table linens : NAPERY
51
ThinkPad, for one : LAPTOP
52
Church offering : TITHE
53
Actor Milo : OSHEA
54
Understandable : CLEAR
58
Seep : OOZE
60
Humdinger : LULU
61
Abu Dhabi leader : EMIR
62
Ever's partner : ANON
64
Overly : TOO
65
Kind of driver : UPS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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