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New York Times, Thursday, January 11, 2001

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
21-Across : Add spice to
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 35 Missing: {JPQXZ} This is puzzle # 67 for Ms. Gorski. Thursday freshness: 78%
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O
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S
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C
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A
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R
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N
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C
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A
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D
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C
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N
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G
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T
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K
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W
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S
T
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R
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S
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A
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C
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T
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R
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Y
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N
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© 2001, The New York Times1/11/1 ( No. 18,692 )
Across
1
With 63-Across, author of the quip starting at 17-Across : OSCAR
6
Chicago sights : ELS
9
Baltic country: Abbr. : LITH
13
Rest against : LEANON
15
Waikiki gift : LEI
16
Cruising : ASEA
17
Start of a quip : IMNOTYOUNG
19
"___ be a cold day in hell ..." : ITLL
20
Routing word : VIA
21
Add spice to : SEASON
22
Jazz trumpeter Baker : CHET
23
To be, at the Sorbonne : ETRE
25
Where the U.N. is in Manhattan, with 27-Across : FIRST
27
See 25-Across : AVE
28
Like Salome : SEDUCTIVE
31
In motion : ASTIR
33
Soak : DOUSE
34
"Yours truly" and the like : CLOSES
35
Middle of the quip, with 37-Across : ENOUGH
37
See 35-Across : TOKNOW
38
Rears : STERNS
39
Name for a king or a queen? : SERTA
40
About three grains of troy weight : CARAT
41
Deli order : TUNAONRYE
45
Columbia, e.g.: Abbr. : RIV
46
Rare string : STRAD
48
Santa's reindeer, e.g. : TEAM
49
Pelvic parts : ILIA
51
Baltimore N.F.L.ers : RAVENS
54
When "77 Sunset Strip" aired: Abbr. : FRI
55
Batter's base, maybe : BEER
56
End of the quip : EVERYTHING
58
Once, once : ERST
59
Electric ___ : EEL
60
Beachgoer's burden : COOLER
61
Sleek fleet : SSTS
62
Cunning : SLY
63
See 1-Across : WILDE
Down
1
Major producers of oil : OLIVES
2
Mideast native : SEMITE
3
False rumor : CANARD
4
Enero to enero : ANO
5
Falls apart : ROTS
6
Hard to pin down : ELUSIVE
7
Name immortalized by Poe : LENORE
8
Indications : SIGNS
9
Secular : LAIC
10
"Really?" : ISTHATSO
11
Watch a monitor, say : TELEVIEW
12
They hold your horses : HALTERS
14
Actress Carrie : NYE
18
Hardly refined : OAFISH
24
Author Welty : EUDORA
26
Address : TALKTO
29
Dracula and others : COUNTS
30
They have a lot of pull : TUGS
32
Speech sound : SONANT
34
Langston Hughes's "___ Unashamed" : CORA
35
Online merchants : ETAILERS
36
Most gutsy : NERVIEST
37
Like caresses : TENDER
38
Writers' bloc : SCRIBES
39
With refinement : SUAVELY
41
Commit a court infraction : TRAVEL
42
Bar order : REFILL
43
Spun, as a story : YARNED
44
Solzhenitsyn, e.g. : EMIGRE
47
They're for the birds : TREES
50
Liberal pursuits : ARTS
52
212 initials : NYC
53
Put belowdecks : STOW
57
___ polloi : HOI

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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