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New York Times, Monday, October 29, 2007

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
15-Across : Gumbo vegetable
TotalDebutLatest
15311/22/19936/11/2023
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RebusScrabblePGramFresh
11.55233%
Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 112 for Mr. Piscop. Monday freshness: 10%
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© 2007, The New York Times10/29/7 ( No. 21,174 )
Across
1
Started a cigarette : LITUP
6
Sail supporter : MAST
10
Rooters : FANS
14
Left one's seat : AROSE
15
Gumbo vegetable : OKRA
16
Track shape : OVAL
17
Allotment of heredity units? : GENERATION
19
Parks who pioneered in civil rights : ROSA
20
Our language: Abbr. : ENG
21
Took the blue ribbon : WON
22
Room to maneuver : LEEWAY
24
Nuclear power apparatus : REACTOR
27
Top 10 tunes : HITS
28
Hole-punching tool : AWL
29
Slender cigar : PANATELA
33
Prefix with -hedron : TETRA
36
Is false to the world : LIVESALIE
37
Get from ___ (progress slightly) : ATOB
38
Battle of the ___ (men vs. women) : SEXES
39
Stadium section : TIER
40
Studied primarily, at college : MAJOREDIN
42
Holder of 88 keys : PIANO
43
Caveman's era : STONEAGE
44
Vintage automotive inits. : REO
45
Tennis great Arthur : ASHE
46
Mediums' meetings : SEANCES
50
Stewed to the gills : BLOTTO
53
King Kong, e.g. : APE
54
Lacto-___-vegetarian : OVO
55
Sitarist Shankar : RAVI
56
Preacher's sky-high feeling? : REVELATION
60
Twistable cookie : OREO
61
Turn at roulette : SPIN
62
Decaf brand : SANKA
63
Give an alert : WARN
64
Direction of sunup : EAST
65
Sticky problem : POSER
Down
1
Hearty brew : LAGER
2
Jim Carrey comedy "Me, Myself & ___" : IRENE
3
Kingdom east of Fiji : TONGA
4
Milk for all its worth : USE
5
Pay-___-view : PER
6
Travel by car : MOTOR
7
Closely related (to) : AKIN
8
Sign at a sellout : SRO
9
Bikini wearers' markings : TANLINES
10
TV channel for golfers? : FORESTATION
11
State frankly : AVOW
12
Shuttle-launching org. : NASA
13
Murder : SLAY
18
Delinquent G.I. : AWOL
23
Greek H's : ETAS
25
Pasta-and-potato-loving country? : CARBONATION
26
Former rival of Pan Am : TWA
27
Safe place : HAVEN
29
Mischievous sprite : PIXIE
30
Director Kazan : ELIA
31
Claim on property : LIEN
32
Prefix with dynamic : AERO
33
Scots' caps : TAMS
34
Coup d'___ : ETAT
35
Japanese P.M. during W.W. II : TOJO
36
Mantel : LEDGE
38
Equine-looking fish : SEAHORSE
41
Take a siesta : REST
42
Split ___ soup : PEA
44
Fishing line winder : REEL
46
Paid out : SPENT
47
Nickels and dimes : COINS
48
Call to mind : EVOKE
49
Sunken ship finder : SONAR
50
Furrowed part of the head : BROW
51
Dr. Zhivago's love : LARA
52
1964 Dave Clark Five song "Glad All ___" : OVER
53
Hertz rival : AVIS
57
Mileage rating org. : EPA
58
Cleopatra's biter : ASP
59
Eastern "way" : TAO

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

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