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New York Times, Thursday, March 21, 1996

Author:
H. Estes
Editor:
Will Shortz
58-Down : 90 degrees from 38-Across
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Harvey Estes

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JKQVX} This is puzzle # 27 for Mr. Estes. Thursday freshness: 47%
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© 1996, The New York Times3/21/96 ( No. 16,935 )
Across
1
"Gone With the Wind" locale : ATLANTA
8
Cousin of a terrarium : HOTBED
14
Area of early exploration : SEACOAST
16
Senator Daniel : INOUYE
17
Maj. Strasser in "Casablanca" : HEINRICH
18
Hung around : STAYED
19
Cigar tip : ETTE
20
Ages : ERAS
22
Mustachioed artist : DALI
23
Backward : SHY
24
Coal porter : MINER
26
Ambrose Bierce, notably : CYNIC
27
Communicate through channels : SENDWORD
29
Some trial evidence : DNA
30
Realty sign : SOLD
31
Ed of Mingo fame : AMES
32
"Wanna___?" : BET
33
Employs pupils : SEES
35
Radii parallels : ULNAS
37
"Yeah, right" : SURE
38
Ky.-to-Okla. direction : WSW
39
Passed beautifully : ACED
40
Alternative to Le Bourget : ORLY
42
Polluter-busting org. : EPA
43
Arm on a saucer : DEATHRAY
45
Ball's beau : ARNAZ
47
"On the Beach" author : SHUTE
48
Sgt., e.g. : NCO
51
Objects of a 1950's scare : REDS
52
Wheat center : GERM
53
Eve's counterpart : MORN
54
Harden : OSSIFY
56
Springs (from) : EMANATES
59
Depleted : USEDUP
60
Suckle : WETNURSE
61
Skyscrapers : TOWERS
62
Most condensation-covered : DEWIEST
Down
1
Lenten forehead smudges : ASHES
2
You put them in your food : TEETH
3
Churchgoers : LAITY
4
Oxy-5 target : ACNE
5
Common conjunction : NOR
6
Mai___ : TAI
7
Get higher : ASCEND
8
Sound like thisss : HISS
9
Neighbor of Minn. : ONT
10
Sycophant : TOADY
11
Presently, to a shopaholic? : BUYANDBUY
12
Part of a makeup kit : EYELINER
13
Set aside for some purpose : DEDICATE
15
Completely, to a pitcher? : THREWANDTHREW
21
Scent : AROMA
24
Country singer McDaniel : MEL
25
Bring about : INDUCE
26
Record replacers : CDS
27
"___your old man!" : SOS
28
Vacation spot : RESORT
30
Scoundrel, to Betsy Ross? : SEWANDSEW
33
Initiate, as a warrant : SWEAROUT
34
After-dinner order : ESPRESSO
36
Certain car deal : LEASE
37
Artful : SLY
39
Carpenter's tool : ADZ
41
Charlotte of "Diff'rent Strokes" : RAE
44
Showed busyness : HUMMED
46
Words to the audience : ASIDE
48
___Dame : NOTRE
49
Salad green : CRESS
50
Start : ONSET
52
Works a deal on : GYPS
53
Kahului's locale : MAUI
55
Animal enclosure : FUR
57
Noshed : ATE
58
90 degrees from 38-Across : NNW

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

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