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New York Times, Wednesday, February 12, 1997

Author:
M. E. Skolsky
Editor:
W. Shortz
7-Down : "___ kleine Nachtmusic"
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Mark Elliot Skolsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQXZ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Skolsky. Wednesday freshness: 52%
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© 1997, The New York Times2/12/97 ( No. 17,263 )
Across
1
Wingding : BASH
5
Commoner : PLEB
9
Rabbit : LAPIN
14
"What have you been ___?" : UPTO
15
Hideout : LAIR
16
"Home ___" : ALONE
17
Rabbit's title : BRER
18
1 for H, or 2 for He : ATNO
19
Poet who wrote "The Sonnets to Orpheus" : RILKE
20
Line from a Copland "Portrait" : BORNINKENTUCKY
23
Darrow of "King Kong" : ANN
24
Pilot's heading: Abbr. : NNE
25
Plains Indian : CREE
26
Political suffix : ITE
27
"Looky here!" : OHO
28
Hydroelectric project : DAM
31
Line from a Copland "Portrait" : RAISEDININDIANA
37
Versifier Nash : OGDEN
38
Teachers' grp. : NEA
39
McDowall of "Planet of the Apes" : RODDY
40
Line from a Copland "Portrait" : LIVEDINILLINOIS
43
Married : ONE
44
"My mama done ___ me" : TOL
45
Eggs : OVA
46
Year Justinian II regained the throne : DCCV
48
Clothing size: Abbr. : LGE
49
Certain brain size : PEA
52
Subject of Copland's "Portrait" : ABRAHAMLINCOLN
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"Go ahead and ask" : SHOOT
57
Sound system brand : TEAC
58
Over : ANEW
59
Kind of boom : SONIC
60
Writer Bombeck : ERMA
61
Site of the fabled forges of the Cyclopes : ETNA
62
"Christina's World" painter : WYETH
63
Navy diver : SEAL
64
Close : NEAR
Down
1
Good ole boy : BUBBA
2
It keeps a cook tied up : APRON
3
Rudder's locale : STERN
4
Telephone, slangily : HORN
5
Outlined : PLANNED
6
Potato pancake : LATKE
7
"___ kleine Nachtmusic" : EINE
8
Kind of tube : BRONCHIAL
9
Lash of old westerns : LARUE
10
"A Town Like ___" (Nevil Shute novel) : ALICE
11
11th President : POLK
12
Like an octopus's defense : INKY
13
Bio word : NEE
21
Have in view : INTEND
22
1982 cyberfilm : TRON
26
"Uh-huh" : ISEE
27
Newsman Roger : ONEIL
28
Carpenter's groove : DADO
29
Como's "___ Love You So" : ANDI
30
Baseball's "Say Hey Kid" : MAYS
31
Hershey candy : ROLO
32
Not fer : AGIN
33
"If I Knew You Were Comin' ___ Baked a Cake" : IDVE
34
Pioneers : INNOVATES
35
Motivated : DRIVEN
36
Suburban New York college : IONA
41
Hankering : ITCH
42
Like Mr. Spock's answers : LOGICAL
46
French right : DROIT
47
Fisherman's take-home : CATCH
48
Cousin of a camel : LLAMA
49
Florence's ___ Vecchio : PONTE
50
Actress Verdugo : ELENA
51
Egypt's Sadat : ANWAR
52
Tar hail : AHOY
53
Archeological find : BONE
54
A ___ bagatelle : MERE
55
Normandy city : CAEN
56
24-Across's opposite : SSW

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

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