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New York Times, Saturday, December 20, 1997

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
62-Across : Better
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 35 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 72 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 9%
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© 1997, The New York Times12/20/97 ( No. 17,574 )
Across
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Surfing aid? : WEBBROWSER
11
"What'll ___?" (bartender's question) : ITBE
15
Superimpose : OVERSTRIKE
16
Trounce : MAUL
17
Muster Day enrollees : MILITIAMEN
18
Went down : SLID
19
Set down : ALIT
20
Taste : SIP
21
Esther of "Good Times" : ROLLE
22
Madre's little one : NENE
23
Prefix with -pod : TETRA
26
Passing stats: Abbr. : YDS
27
Barrett of Pink Floyd : SYD
28
Manama is its capital : BAHRAIN
30
Primitive abode : HUT
31
Made smooth : EASED
33
Quaint dance : SOCKHOP
35
Slight edge : HAIR
37
1994 Emmy-winner Ward : SELA
38
From that cause : THEREOF
41
Go over old ground? : REMAP
44
Small deer : ROE
45
Grand Am competitor : CUTLASS
47
Directed : LED
49
Sewing ___ : AWL
50
Terrified, perhaps : ASHEN
51
Guernsey, for one : ISLE
52
Ill-gotten gains : GRIFT
54
"Die Meistersinger" soprano : EVA
56
Exclusive : SOLE
57
Crackers : LOCO
58
Figured out, in a way : DECIPHERED
61
Parrot : APER
62
Better : AMELIORATE
63
It may be out on a limb : NEST
64
Good judgment : HORSESENSE
Down
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"A ___ Face" (Joan Crawford film) : WOMANS
2
Curse : EVILEYE
3
Actress Montgomery : BELINDA
4
Commercial name part meaning "shiny" : BRITE
5
Alphabet sequence : RST
6
Publisher Chandler : OTIS
7
Apparition : WRAITH
8
Grins self-consciously : SIMPERS
9
Squeeze (out) : EKE
10
One of a cartoon duo : REN
11
"___ Excited" (1984 hit) : IMSO
12
Hunting cry : TALLYHO
13
Deposit : BUILDUP
14
Tribal leaders, maybe : ELDEST
21
Gets to : RANKLES
24
D. H. Lawrence ranch site : TAOS
25
Kitchen gadgets : RICERS
28
Fierce fighter : BEARCAT
29
Parting words : ADIEUS
32
Who blows thar : SHE
34
Part of the leg : HAM
36
"Call It Sleep" novelist : ROTH
38
Dinghy attachment, often : TOWROPE
39
Spirals : HELICES
40
Con man : FLEECER
42
Loser : ALSORAN
43
Some ammunition : PELLETS
44
Topcoat : RAGLAN
46
Shoemaking sites : ANVILS
48
One of rock's Ramones : DEEDEE
51
Grenoble's department : ISERE
53
Means of defense : FORT
55
"...baked in ___" : APIE
58
Long keystroke : DAH
59
First name in comedy : EMO
60
Laugh sounds : HOS

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

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