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New York Times, Monday, July 17, 1995

Author:
Kenneth Witte
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : Word before "of health" or "of directors"
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Kenneth Witte

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQWXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 32 for Mr. Witte. Monday freshness: 14%
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B
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O
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R
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© 1995, The New York Times7/17/95 ( No. 16,687 )
Across
1
Word before "of health" or "of directors" : BOARD
6
Adroit : DEFT
10
Notion : IDEA
14
See eye to eye : AGREE
15
Lamb's nom de plume : ELIA
16
Netting : MESH
17
Makes a good start : GETSTOFIRSTBASE
20
Understand : SEE
21
Mr. Onassis : ARI
22
Celebrity : STARDOM
23
Bearing : MIEN
24
Common Market money : ECU
25
Isolated : OUTINLEFTFIELD
32
Peter and Paul, e.g., but not Mary : TSARS
33
Defeat decisively : ROUT
34
Eggs : OVA
36
It marches on : TIME
37
Bar seat : STOOL
39
Nasty, as a comment : ACID
40
___ of a kind : ONE
41
Caesar and Vicious, e.g. : SIDS
42
Radarange maker : AMANA
43
Attempt to win approval : GRANDSTANDPLAY
47
Enemy : FOE
48
Lasses' mates : LADS
49
Blueprint : DIAGRAM
53
Letter before omega : PSI
54
Jiang Qing's husband : MAO
57
Trying hard : INTHEREPITCHING
60
Sicilian spouter : ETNA
61
Intend : MEAN
62
Architectural style : TUDOR
63
Light for serenaders : MOON
64
Terrier type : SKYE
65
Parisian river : SEINE
Down
1
Catches, as game : BAGS
2
S-shaped curve : OGEE
3
Jovial Johnson : ARTE
4
Legal matter : RES
5
Holds in custody : DETAINS
6
Emulate Webster : DEFINE
7
Inventor Whitney : ELI
8
Evergreens : FIRS
9
Not gross : TASTEFUL
10
Stain : IMBRUE
11
Conked out, as a battery : DEAD
12
Conoco competitor : ESSO
13
"Pardon me..." : AHEM
18
Oka River city : OREL
19
Unspoken : TACIT
23
Bog : MIRE
25
"Beetle Bailey" pooch : OTTO
26
Taking advantage of : USING
27
Not as wild : TAMER
28
"The Road Not Taken" poet : FROST
29
Besides : TOO
30
Like the 11:00 news, usually : LOCAL
31
Gulf of Riga tributary : DVINA
35
Call it ___ (stop working) : ADAY
37
Pistols, swords, etc. : SIDEARMS
38
N.F.L. scores : TDS
39
Sound equipment : AMPS
41
Sleep loudly : SNORE
42
More than devotees : ADDICTS
44
Kabul native : AFGHAN
45
Type of skiing : ALPINE
46
Boss Tweed nemesis : NAST
49
Carpe ___ : DIEM
50
Division word : INTO
51
___ time (never) : ATNO
52
Earth inheritors, with "the" : MEEK
54
The south of France : MIDI
55
Forthwith : ANON
56
Folklore villain : OGRE
58
Remunerate : PAY
59
Cry's partner : HUE

Answer summary:
3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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