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New York Times, Friday, October 22, 1999

Author:
Martin Ashwood-Smith
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Martin Ashwood-Smith

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {QXYZ} Spans: 6, (2 triple stacks) This is puzzle # 36 for Mr. Ashwood-Smith. Friday freshness: 17%
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© 1999, The New York Times10/22/99 ( No. 18,245 )
Across
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Giving-up point : ENDOFONESTETHER
16
Provides means of escape : LEAVESALOOPHOLE
17
People at a special showing : INVITEDAUDIENCE
18
Saint-Germain's river : SEINE
19
Spring mo. : APR
20
Turn : SPOIL
21
PC site : DESK
23
Like Chianti : SEC
25
Certain no. : ORD
26
Grate expectations? : ASH
28
Blanket : OVERALL
31
Buddy : CHUM
33
X-ray spec : RAD
34
Kind of pen : POISON
38
Fast time : RAMADAN
40
A person may be taken in by taking it : PLACEBO
41
Old trail destination : OREGON
42
Trial and tribulation : WOE
43
Boy armed with bows and arrows : EROS
44
43-Across and others : DEITIES
46
Fork in the road : VEE
47
Govt. money dispenser since 1946 : SSA
49
41-Across borderer: Abbr. : CAL
50
It's a wrap : SARI
53
Hot stuff : CHILI
55
Initials in 19th-century lit. : RLS
57
Folk music accompaniment : BANJO
60
Thin ice, e.g. : POTENTIALDANGER
63
Boer War participant : ORANGEFREESTATE
64
Delivery persons' info : STREETADDRESSES
Down
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Site of the ancient Olympic games : ELIS
2
Bird named for its call : NENE
3
"Political Discourses" author : DAVIDHUME
4
Sheepish : OVINE
5
Rolls out the red carpet for : FETES
6
Suffix with verb : OSE
7
Big zero : NADA
8
Rolled by : ELAPSED
9
Less enthused : SOURER
10
Strauss's "___ und Verklärung" : TOD
11
Certain Protestant: Abbr. : EPIS
12
Sting operation? : THEPOLICE
13
Roll out the red carpet for : HONOR
14
1961 Charlton Heston role : ELCID
15
Casting requirement? : REEL
22
Of a sacred text : KORANIC
24
Unprotected from the sun : CAPLESS
26
Common prefix with phobia : ACRO
27
___-Pei (dog) : SHAR
29
Moving sight : VAN
30
Mauna ___ : LOA
32
Cambridge University college : MAGDALENE
35
Acting for : SERVINGAS
36
Concerto instrument : OBOE
37
Scents organ : NOSE
39
Female antelope : DOE
40
"MS. Found in a Bottle" writer : POE
42
Heavyweight champ before Dempsey : WILLARD
45
Point ___ (southernmost point in continental Europe) : TARIFA
47
Brusque : SHORT
48
Long-necked instrument : SITAR
51
Take down a peg : ABASE
52
Philippics : RANTS
53
Nav. ratings : CPOS
54
"Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff" novelist : INGE
56
Inuit's item : SLED
58
Leap at the ballet : JETE
59
Metal containers : ORES
61
Asian occasion : TET
62
Austrian article : DER

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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