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New York Times, Saturday, October 9, 1999

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
22-Across : "___ off?"
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611.5710876%
Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 24 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 94 for Mr. Nosowsky. Saturday freshness: 89%
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© 1999, The New York Times10/9/99 ( No. 18,232 )
Across
1
Taste test subject : SODAPOP
8
Bit of moisture : DROPLET
15
Staff resembling a shepherd's crook : CROSIER
16
TV Guide information : AIRDATE
17
Temple offering : HIGHEREDUCATION
19
Frenchman noted for his machine art : LEGER
20
Mountain air : YODEL
21
Air Force One passenger: Abbr. : CIC
22
"___ off?" : ONOR
23
Cut : HEWED
24
Digestion aid : BILE
25
UPS delivery: Abbr. : CTN
26
"___ We" (1969 Richard Harris song) : DIDNT
27
Deceive : COZEN
28
Not let have : KEEPFROM
30
Most angry : SOREST
31
Tony winner for "Enter Laughing," 1963 : ALANARKIN
33
Laugh riot : SCREAM
36
Returns to a seat : REELECTS
40
"Give it ___!" : AREST
41
Meteorologists' study : SKIES
42
Kind of gun : RAY
43
Arrow site : VANE
44
All gone : SPENT
45
Beef buy : LOIN
46
Word often accompanying 54-Across : AYE
47
Fifth in a series of connected works : PARTV
48
Writer Zora ___ Hurston : NEALE
49
x, y or z : LOWERCASELETTER
52
Quite ill, in Lille : ALAMORT
53
Picking up : NABBING
54
General reception? : SALUTES
55
Lacking fullness, as a voice : THREADY
Down
1
Junk : SCHLOCK
2
Region of Cuba or Ecuador : ORIENTE
3
Darn : DOGGONE
4
Son of Jacob : ASHER
5
Marina sight : PIER
6
Anthem contraction : OER
7
Victimized : PREYEDON
8
French writer Alphonse or Léon : DAUDET
9
Made grain-sized : RICED
10
Kind of history : ORAL
11
LAX clock setting : PDT
12
Remove the clerical nature of : LAICIZE
13
L'Opéra performers : ETOILES
14
Like old paperback novels : TENCENT
18
Where bears fare well : DOWNMARKETS
23
Grant name : HIRAM
24
Carried : BORNE
26
Key of Prokofiev's first piano concerto : DFLAT
27
Winds : COILS
29
Bel ___ : PAESE
30
Activity that can wreck a hard disk : SKEET
32
Be original, but not first : REINVENT
33
Emmy winner for a 1970's police drama : SAVALAS
34
Classic Binney & Smith trademark : CRAYOLA
35
Playboy's request : RENEWAL
37
Modern-day locale of ancient Dalmatia : CROATIA
38
Rear : TAILEND
39
Hoped-for result of a merger : SYNERGY
41
Duo of a children's rhyme : SPRATS
44
Start of an oath : SACRE
45
Not bother : LETBE
47
Bapt. or Meth. : PROT
48
1867 admission to the Union: Abbr. : NEBR
50
Tall runner : EMU
51
"Well, ___-di-dah!" : LAH

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

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