NY Times, Fri, May 30, 1997

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1. Holds back : RETARDS 8. Watery : AQUEOUS 15. Do tests on : EXAMINE 16. Africa's ___ Faso : BURKINA 17. Port sight : TUGBOAT 18. They're not as big as jars : JIGGLES 19. Gilmore of basketball : ARTIS 20. Grave : ACUTE 22. ___-di-dah : LAH 23. Cynic's retort : IBET 24. Reproductive body : SPORE 25. She played Gilda in "Gilda" : RITA 26. Peeples of "Fame" : NIA 27. It may be dirty : SHAME 28. Chief Justice after Marshall : TANEY 29. "Ditto" : SAMEHERE 31. Dries up : WIZENS 32. Refuse help : GOITALONE 34. Kvetch a lot : SQUAWK 37. Daytime TV offering : GAMESHOW 41. Like Miss Muffet's fare : CURDY 42. Saavedra ___ (1936 Peace Nobelist) : LAMAS 43. In vitro items : OVA 44. Pouch holders, for short : ROOS 45. "V" villain : ALIEN 46. No stay-at-home : GOER 47. Certain photo order: Abbr. : ENL 48. Palm leaf : FROND 49. Site of Tiberius's villa : CAPRI 50. Obscure stuff : ESOTERY 52. Release : UNLOOSE 54. Countermanded : NEGATED 55. Western ravines : COULEES 56. Daggers : STYLETS 57. Overseas assembly : KNESSET		1. Preserves : RETAINS 2. It's way out of town : EXURBIA 3. Wrestling duo : TAGTEAM 4. Scope : AMBIT 5. Jamaica's Ocho ___ : RIOS 6. Genes material : DNA 7. Isolate : SETAPART 8. Recant officially : ABJURE 9. So : QUITE 10. Give a little push : URGE 11. Ticker tale? : EKG 12. Vital engine conduit : OILLINE 13. Left over : UNEATEN 14. Steps fancily : SASHAYS 21. "Huh?" : COMEAGAIN 24. V.I.P. from Araby : SHEIK 25. Wrecks : RAZES 27. Theatrical : SHOWY 28. Points at the dinner table : TINES 30. "Heavens to Betsy!" : EGADS 31. "___ of the Year" : WOMAN 33. One losing power, perhaps : LAMEDUCK 34. Puts on for a certain audience : SCREENS 35. Hut style : QUONSET 36. Surgical specialty : UROLOGY 38. Notoriously malodorous birds : HOOPOES 39. Manage : OVERSEE 40. Least confident : WARIEST 42. Big name in insurance : LLOYDS 45. French traffic order : ARRET 46. British pens : GAOLS 48. Big bash : FETE 49. Shoe impression, maybe : CLUE 51. Former world chess champion from Russia : TAL 53. "Smoking or ___?" : NON