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New York Times, Thursday, June 20, 1991

Author: Eli Wesoff
Editor: Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { B J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,199
Across Down
1. Pindar, for one : ODIST
6. Ready money : CASH
10. A noncom : MSGT
14. Designer de la ___ : RENTA
15. Choir member : ALTO
16. Paducah's river : OHIO
17. Showed an old movie : RERAN
18. Ubiquitous street : MAIN
19. Onetime Genoa magistrate : DOGE
20. Tightwads : PENNYPINCHERS
23. Agnus ___ : DEI
24. Wolf Larsen's ship : GHOST
25. Mormon state: 1849 : DESERET
29. ___ limb (in a risky position) : OUTONA
32. Summit : ACME
33. " . . . River Kwai" director : LEAN
36. Caravansary : SERAI
37. Done ___ turn : TOA
38. "Sweet" one : ADELINE
40. Vague : DIM
41. Author Glasgow : ELLEN
43. Skirt lead-in : MINI
44. Certain snow field : NEVE
45. Digs into : DELVES
47. Infuriated : ANGERED
49. Changes the course of a sloop : TACKS
51. A cont. : EUR
52. Tightwads : NICKELNURSERS
57. Dress style from Oahu : MUMU
58. Met section : TIER
59. City south of Florence : SIENA
61. René's notion : IDEE
62. B-G connection : CDEF
63. Ran in neutral : IDLED
64. Dried up : SERE
65. Goddess of marriage : HERA
66. A foursome in Mississippi : ESSES
 1. Revolutionary patriot-inventor : ORR
2. Benchley's "The ___" : DEEP
3. About : INRE
4. An attendee at an S.R.O. show : STANDEE
5. He works on hides : TANNER
6. David, e.g. : CAMP
7. Soviet range : ALAI
8. Confidence game : STING
9. Top banana : HONCHO
10. Unpretentious, in Paris : MODESTE
11. Kind of cook : SHORTORDER
12. Victorian transports : GIGS
13. Tic-tac follower : TOE
21. Relinquish : YIELD
22. Billet : HOUSE
25. Stale : DATED
26. ___ des beaux-arts : ECOLE
27. Minor politician, e.g. : SMALLTIMER
28. Abound : TEEM
30. Artless : NAIVE
31. Targeted : AIMED
34. Former ring king : ALI
35. "___ Rosa," 1929 song : NINA
38. Win by ___ : ANECK
39. Forty-___ : NINER
42. Émigré of a sort : EVACUEE
44. Sea nymphs : NEREIDS
46. Preliminary draft : SKETCH
48. Augusta, to friends : GUSSIE
50. Playground staple : SLIDE
52. Subject for Goya : NUDE
53. At no time, to Shelley : NEER
54. City in SE Turkey : URFA
55. Units of reluctance : RELS
56. Snick's sidekick : SNEE
57. Wrong: Prefix : MIS
60. Commercials : ADS

Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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