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New York Times, Friday, September 6, 1996

Author:
R. Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Down : Sang
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31.571,11574%
Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JQV} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 43 for Mr. Norris. Friday freshness: 47%
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© 1996, The New York Times9/6/96 ( No. 17,104 )
Across
1
Wackos : CRACKPOTS
10
Certain deodorant : SPRAY
15
Exotic : RECHERCHE
16
Uplift : ELATE
17
Servopneumatic instrument : ALTIMETER
18
Diet beverage brand : NOCAL
19
Blemish : MAR
20
Bears, in Barcelona : OSOS
21
Too : ASWELL
22
Plan detail : SPEC
24
Scattered : SPARSE
26
Fortune 500 orgs. : COS
27
Descendants : ISSUE
29
Signs : INKS
30
Big-house connector : ASA
31
Get cozy : NESTLE
33
Work : TOIL
35
Alphabet trio : RST
36
Exceeder : SURPASSER
39
New Deal org. : CCC
42
Idle : LOAF
43
Pianist Jose : ITURBI
47
Help wanted abbr. : EOE
48
Seine sights : ILES
50
Demanding : STERN
51
1960 Pirate hero, for short : MAZ
52
Fictional beamer : SCOTTY
54
Barbecue accessory : SPIT
55
Betting window option : EXACTA
57
Gather : REAP
59
Long ___ : AGO
60
Montana, once : NINER
61
Red chalcedony : CARNELIAN
63
Plume's owner, in song : TANTE
64
Albuquerque's river : RIOGRANDE
65
The arms of Morpheus : SLEEP
66
Poorly equipped : ILLSUITED
Down
1
Stuffs hastily : CRAMSIN
2
Patient's problem : RELAPSE
3
One in a cast : ACTRESS
4
X : CHI
5
Word for the Lone Ranger : KEMO
6
Publicity : PRESS
7
Some mollusks : OCTOPI
8
Vachel Lindsay poem : THESANTAFETRAIL
9
Sun. talk : SER
10
Brains : SENSE
11
Truck attachment : PLOW
12
Track competitor : RACECAR
13
Baffled : ATALOSS
14
Reprimands : YELLSAT
21
Saint's home : ASSISI
23
Shares : CUTS
25
Theaters of old : RKOS
28
Month after Av : ELUL
32
Symphony originally dedicated to Napoleon : EROICA
34
"I'm game!" : LETS
37
___ Alto : PALO
38
Sticking places : RUTS
39
Binds : CEMENTS
40
Kind of cable : COAXIAL
41
"The Card Players" artist : CEZANNE
44
Prepare the house for sale, e.g. : REPAINT
45
Bucket passers : BRIGADE
46
Sang : INTONED
49
Solid, polycyclic alcohol : STEROL
52
Throat trouble : STREP
53
Honks, as a goose : YANGS
56
Badger group : CETE
58
Where the Ucayali flows : PERU
61
Dernier ___ : CRI
62
Old French love poem : LAI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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