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New York Times, Friday, December 30, 1994

Author:
Wayne Robert Williams
Editor:
Will Shortz
66-Across : Dubai and others
TotalDebutLatest
384/30/19943/5/1998
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44312843
RebusScrabDebutFresh
21.5516243%
Wayne Robert Williams

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JQYZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 15 for Mr. Williams. Friday freshness: 30%
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© 1994, The New York Times12/30/94 ( No. 16,488 )
Across
1
Camera settings : SPEEDS
7
Reprobate : SCALAWAG
15
1970's Best Picture : PATTON
16
"Shogun" rite : HARAKIRI
17
Secluded spot : ALCOVE
18
Like Toons : ANIMATED
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Cedar Rapids college : COE
20
Verdugo and others : ELENAS
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Not share : HOG
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Partake of : EAT
24
Work long and hard : SLOG
25
Store, in a way : ENSILE
28
Air bubble : BLEB
30
African sorceress of fiction : SHE
32
At the age of: Lat., abbr. : AETAT
33
Agamemnon's father : ATREUS
36
Rocky ridge : ARETE
38
1940 Hope film : ROADTOSINGAPORE
43
Lissome : LITHE
44
Stealth craft : GLIDER
45
Scratchy shrub : SUMAC
48
Chopper : AXE
50
___ bene : NOTA
51
Camels' kin : LLAMAS
53
Furthermore : PLUS
56
Prefix meaning failure : MIS
57
Roy Orbison's "___ Over" : ITS
58
Playwright Norman : MARSHA
60
Queen before Sophia : ENA
61
Refute : DISPROVE
64
Personal spa : HOTTUB
66
Dubai and others : EMIRATES
67
Disentwine : UNREEL
68
Security : SAFENESS
69
Hitchcock book "A ___ of a Different Color" : HEARSE
Down
1
Longest key : SPACEBAR
2
City north of Sunnyvale : PALOALTO
3
And like that : ETCETERA
4
Ike's arena : ETO
5
Peaceable types : DOVES
6
New Zealand runner Peter : SNELL
7
1932 Dietrich film : SHANGHAIEXPRESS
8
Miracle site : CANA
9
Greet the day : ARISE
10
Flight : LAM
11
Police-blotter letters : AKA
12
Hip : WITHIT
13
Interstice on an insect's wing : AREOLA
14
Role for seven actresses : GIDGET
21
Sister of Selene : EOS
26
Durban's province : NATAL
27
Enter gradually : SEEPIN
29
Chaos : BEDLAM
31
Directional suffix : ERN
34
City on the Mohawk : UTICA
35
Soak : SOT
37
Fellow, in slang : EGG
39
___ Na Na : SHA
40
Part of a dash : ODOMETER
41
Hangers-on : RETINUES
42
Penciled-in : ERASABLE
45
Vacation mementos : SLIDES
46
Last syllable of a word : ULTIMA
47
Backbone of a mountain range : MASSIF
49
1994 U.S. Open champ Ernie : ELS
52
Walloped : SMOTE
54
"Yup" : UHHUH
55
Rhone tributary : SAONE
59
Ancient greetings : AVES
62
Before indicator : PRE
63
Tore : RAN
65
Singer's syllable : TRA

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

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