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New York Times, Saturday, October 12, 1996

Author:
R. Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
16-Across : Satellites
TotalDebutLatest
1894/27/19948/3/2024
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
31.571,11574%
Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {FV} This is puzzle # 45 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 82%
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© 1996, The New York Times10/12/96 ( No. 17,140 )
Across
1
Chop phenomenon : WHITECAP
9
South American prairie : PAMPA
14
Deli order : HAMONRYE
15
1983 N.B.A. champs : SIXERS
16
Satellites : ORBITERS
17
Folds paper, as for packing : QUIRES
18
Eight-time Norris Trophy winner : ORR
19
Candy : SWEETS
21
Curtain-parting time : ACTI
22
Show petulance : POUT
24
Actor Erwin : STU
25
Binds : GLUES
26
Is nervous : SWEATS
29
Ship built from trees on Pelion : ARGO
31
Cable inits. : TNT
32
Track feature : CROSSTIE
34
Suffix with expert : ISE
35
Marquis de Sade novel : JUSTINE
38
Caught, in a way : LASSOED
40
Galoot : APE
41
Salad ingredient : PIMIENTO
43
Green target : PIN
44
Cafe cooler : LAIT
45
Overthrow : TOPPLE
49
"You ___ both!" : ANDME
51
___ Hay (Israeli memorial) : TEL
53
Mare's-nest : HOAX
54
G.O.P. elephant's creator : NAST
55
Actress Lee : REMICK
58
Rockies zone: Abbr. : MST
59
Beethoven's "___ Variations" : EROICA
61
Swamp : INUNDATE
63
Blurred : SMUDGY
64
Took dead aim : ZEROEDIN
65
These, in Toledo : ESTAS
66
Lined up : ENDTOEND
Down
1
Expresses jubilance : WHOOPS
2
Anguish : HARROW
3
Stain : IMBRUE
4
French pronoun : TOI
5
Tolkien tree giants : ENTS
6
Deckhands : CREW
7
English romance writer Ruby : AYRES
8
They're tender in una tienda : PESETAS
9
More, in music : PIU
10
Kind of symmetry : AXIAL
11
1936 John Barrymore role : MERCUTIO
12
Cover : PRETENSE
13
Opposite of frustrated : ASSISTED
15
Geometric figs. : SQS
20
Chocolate treat : TURTLE
23
Miss Manners subject : TACT
25
Seeks advice from : GOESTO
27
Quite a hit : TRIPLE
28
The merry widow in "The Merry Widow" : SONIA
30
Edna Ferber work : GIANT
33
Arab, e.g. : SEMITE
35
Kind of beetle : JAPANESE
36
Like an angry mob : UPINARMS
37
Posts : SENDSOUT
39
Certain high schooler, for short : SOPH
42
List : ITEMIZE
46
Perfumed ointment : POMADE
47
Like some inventory, for accounting purposes : LASTIN
48
Offer : EXTEND
50
Peak of ancient Troy : MTIDA
52
Tablecloths, e.g. : LINEN
55
Light line : RAY
56
Kind of cheese : CURD
57
Clove hitch, e.g. : KNOT
60
Light wts. : CGS
62
___ volente : DEO

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

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