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New York Times, Saturday, April 10, 1999

Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Will Shortz
City taken by Allied forces in 1943
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A. J. Santora

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 31 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 232 for Mr. Santora. Saturday freshness: 22%
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© 1999, The New York Times4/10/99 ( No. 18,050 )
Across
1
1969 Katharine Ross role : ETTAPLACE
10
Old man : POPPA
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Put out : CHAGRINED
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World record? : ATLAS
17
"Tell Me More" author : LARRYKING
18
Forward-looking group : SEERS
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Mrs. Alfred Hitchcock : ALMA
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Suffix with leather : ETTE
21
Not novel : TRITE
22
Father's hermana : TIA
23
Slip cover : DRESS
25
Kind of column : ONES
26
"Rigoletto" trio : ACTS
29
Calla lily or cuckoopint : AROID
31
Cato's craft : ARS
32
"___ true!" : ITS
34
Never-failing : SUREFIRE
36
Skipping syllables : TRALALA
40
Like some professors : TENURED
41
Diana, for one : HUNTRESS
43
Kind of no. : NEG
44
Mushroom ends? : EMS
45
Pass twice on the track : RELAP
47
Rifle part : BUTT
50
Handwriting on the wall : OMEN
52
Ends of the earth : POLES
54
Good butter : RAM
56
"Splish Splash" singer, 1958 : DARIN
58
Flies home? : NEST
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Bring into being : SIRE
60
Pointed arch : OGIVE
61
Newbie : GREENHORN
63
Mad plea? : RENEW
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Goes in front of : ANTECEDES
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Elysiums : EDENS
66
Saga of the heart : SOAPOPERA
Down
1
Bravura : ECLAT
2
Sister of Clio : THALIA
3
Apron, of a sort : TARMAC
4
Old Mogul capital : AGRA
5
"I don't mean to ___..." : PRY
6
Went for : LIKED
7
Grieg's dancing temptress : ANITRA
8
Court figures : CENTERS
9
Barely beats : EDGESOUT
10
After the hour : PAST
11
Alamogordo's county : OTERO
12
Like many landscape paintings : PLEINAIR
13
Theater area : PARTERRE
14
Did a taxing task? : ASSESSED
24
Designing woman : SIREN
27
Work on one's knight moves? : TILT
28
"You're Sixteen" singer : STARR
30
Supergiant in Cygnus : DENEB
33
Kind of cycle : SLEEP
35
Japanese fish delicacy : FUGU
36
Sci-fi writer Sturgeon : THEODORE
37
Sifted (through) : RUMMAGED
38
Gooselike : ANSERINE
39
Provided that : ASLONGAS
42
City taken by Allied forces in 1943 : SALERNO
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Two reals, in days of old : PESETA
48
Old radio tube : TRIODE
49
Roof worker : TARRER
51
Best Actor of 1958 : NIVEN
53
Like a bluff : STEEP
55
Collection of brains : MENSA
57
Kind of brief : NEWS
59
Bandleader Fields : SHEP
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Two or three chevron wearer: Abbr. : NCO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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