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New York Times, Tuesday, March 19, 1996

Author:
P. Jordan
Editor:
Will Shortz
One getting lost in the shuffle?
TotalDebutLatest
163/19/19966/4/2001
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11.6323%
Patrick Jordan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FVXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Jordan. Tuesday freshness: 48%
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© 1996, The New York Times3/19/96 ( No. 16,933 )
Across
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Grant's successor : HAYES
6
Play, as a ukulele : STRUM
11
Mil. command centers : HQS
14
Henry Ford's only son : EDSEL
15
Half of Hispaniola : HAITI
16
Not at home : OUT
17
"The Winds of War" actress : POLLYBERGEN
19
British "relief station" : LOO
20
Zip, to Zapata : NADA
21
___the good (beneficial) : ALLTO
23
Nags : BADGERS
27
Digressed : STRAYED
29
Stimulate, as curiosity : AROUSE
30
Oration : SPEECH
31
Register receptacles : TILLS
32
Ball-and-socket, for one : JOINT
33
Conversational fillers : UMS
36
"S O S!" : HELP
37
Casts off the skin : MOLTS
38
Have memorized : KNOW
39
TV Tarzan Ron : ELY
40
"Land___!" : SAKES
41
Led Zeppelin's "Whole___Love" : LOTTA
42
Jigsaw components : PIECES
44
Corset material, once : BALEEN
45
More hair-raising : SCARIER
47
Hits the road : DEPARTS
48
Goods for sale : WARES
49
Russian river : URAL
50
Aardvark's treat : ANT
51
"Sweet" girl of Irish song : MOLLYMALONE
58
Pasture plaint : MOO
59
Senseless : INANE
60
Eminent : NOTED
61
Wayfarer's stop : INN
62
Pencil wood, usually : CEDAR
63
Companions : DATES
Down
1
Cool, in the 50's : HEP
2
Hue and cry : ADO
3
Fashionable initials : YSL
4
Sinuous swimmer : EEL
5
Reynard's quality : SLYNESS
6
Houses for hoses and hoes : SHEDS
7
Scarlett's home : TARA
8
Fix the outcome : RIG
9
Shoshonean : UTE
10
Mosque adjunct : MINARET
11
"The Piano" player : HOLLYHUNTER
12
Stock market stat : QUOTE
13
Endured : STOOD
18
Unclothed : BARE
22
Fond du___, Wis. : LAC
23
Scrub in the tub : BATHE
24
Disney mermaid : ARIEL
25
"Here You Come Again" crooner : DOLLYPARTON
26
Eat greedily : GULP
27
Roasting rods : SPITS
28
Addition column : TENS
30
Feet bottoms : SOLES
32
One getting lost in the shuffle? : JOKER
34
Sacred song : MOTET
35
Graceful paddlers : SWANS
37
Riot queller : MACE
38
Soft drink nut : KOLA
40
Like fault-line activity : SEISMIC
41
Northern European region : LAPLAND
43
Wrath : IRE
44
Grin broadly : BEAM
45
Hindu teacher : SWAMI
46
Church law : CANON
47
Salon apparatus : DRYER
49
Forearm bone : ULNA
52
It's "for the money" : ONE
53
Terhune dog : LAD
54
Mauna___ : LOA
55
Baseball's Mel : OTT
56
Prenuptial indicator : NEE
57
Begleys Sr. and Jr. : EDS

Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.

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