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New York Times, Friday, November 12, 1999

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Across : Interest of armchair athletes
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Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FV} Spans: 3, (1 triple stack) This is puzzle # 25 for Mr. DiPietro. Friday freshness: 19%
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© 1999, The New York Times11/12/99 ( No. 18,266 )
Across
1
Morning time : TENAM
6
Stressed, in more ways than one? : PASTTENSE
15
Phrase repeated in Ecclesiastes : ATIME
16
Not behind : INTHELEAD
17
Kind of sentence : RUNON
18
Elvis was known for them : GYRATIONS
19
Fine-tunes : ADJUSTS
21
Rockies tribe : UTES
22
One may be warranted : SEARCH
23
Oil units: Abbr. : QTS
24
They're broken up : EXES
28
Sage, for one : HERB
30
Office no. : EXT
31
Went off the beam? : LOSTONESBALANCE
39
Opening of McDonald's restaurants abroad, e.g. : AMERICANIZATION
40
Savings for senior trips? : RETIREMENTPLANS
41
It's protected in South Africa : GNU
42
1966 A.L. Rookie of the Year : AGEE
43
Interest of armchair athletes : ESPN
45
100 qintars : LEK
47
Attack, like a bear : CLAWAT
52
Outstanding : OWED
54
Malign : ASPERSE
55
Bill Russell's was retired : NUMBERSIX
59
Olympic figure skater Slutskaya : IRINA
60
Early NASA effort : APOLLOONE
61
Fertilizer ingredient : NITER
62
Transported, as gas : PIPELINED
63
They deal in futures : SEERS
Down
1
Gogol's "___ Bulba" : TARAS
2
One of 12 by Debussy : ETUDE
3
Old Japanese mercenary : NINJA
4
Affaire de coeur : AMOUR
5
Unlikely place for a soprano : MENSCHOIR
6
Pen pals? : PIGS
7
Whatever : ANY
8
Car bar : STRUT
9
"___ enough!" : THATS
10
French noodle? : TETE
11
"Beloved" actress Kimberly : ELISE
12
Liberal leader? : NEO
13
Japanese name tag : SAN
14
They improve the quality of Life: Abbr. : EDS
20
After that : THENCE
23
Post-snap ploy, briefly : QBSNEAK
25
Seat of Greene County, Ohio : XENIA
26
One whose sentence is complete : EXCON
27
British guns : STENS
29
Set of sheets? : REAM
31
Cyclopean : LARGE
32
Straws in the wind : OMENS
33
Establish : SETUP
34
Part of TNT : TRI
35
___ cherry : BING
36
Anáhuac residents : AZTECS
37
Blazer attachments : LAPELPINS
38
Part of A.S.T.: Abbr. : ATL
44
Like Brutus : NOBLE
45
Playwright Jones : LEROI
46
Pelé's real first name : EDSON
48
Home with a view : AERIE
49
Dash off : WRITE
50
Ed of Hollywood : ASNER
51
Streamers? : TEARS
53
Drawing place : WELL
54
Let go : AXED
55
Time out? : NAP
56
Inits. in news : UPI
57
Dry ___ : MOP
58
Suffix with nectar : INE

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

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