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New York Times, Saturday, February 26, 1994

Author:
Bob Klahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
56-Across : Emphatic words
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Bob Klahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 26 Missing: {FKQX} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Klahn. Saturday freshness: 80%
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© 1994, The New York Times2/26/94 ( No. 16,181 )
Across
1
Millie, for one : SPANIEL
8
Sites of many bars : PRISONS
15
Cookout sauce : TABASCO
16
Land "by the sea" : HONALEE
17
Printing : EDITION
18
Couldn't resist : YIELDED
19
"Stage Door" actress : ARDEN
20
Literary monogram : GBS
22
Nancy Milford literary biography : ZELDA
23
Fictional newswoman : LOIS
24
"The Dance of Life" author, 1923 : ELLIS
26
Cartoonist Gross : MILT
27
"Music City Tonight" network : TNN
28
Julius, familiarly : GROUCHO
30
Miss named? : NEE
31
Modern housing : HIGHRISE
33
Get at : ACCESS
35
Veranda refreshment : MINTJULEP
37
Impious : UNHOLY
40
Spread : ENLARGED
44
Curling target : TEE
45
Kahlil Gibran's birthplace : LEBANON
47
First offender? : EVE
48
He wrote "To be loved, be lovable" : OVID
50
Toughness : SINEW
51
Smudge : SOIL
52
Actress Rosie : PEREZ
54
Literary monogram : TSE
55
"Atlantic City" director : MALLE
56
Emphatic words : IREPEAT
58
Jurgen Prochnow nail-biter of 1981 : DASBOOT
60
Free : ABSOLVE
61
Table centerpiece : EPERGNE
62
Affectionate one, maybe : NESTLER
63
Less radioactive : DECAYED
Down
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Hugger-muggery : STEALTH
2
Roles in "The Godfather" : PADRONI
3
Steadfast : ABIDING
4
Basketball's Thurmond et at. : NATES
5
"The doctor ___" : ISIN
6
"Travels in Hyperreality" author : ECO
7
Like some friends : LONGLOST
8
Cure : PHYSIC
9
Pepin, e.g. : ROI
10
Lady in Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine" : INEZ
11
"Days of Our Lives" town : SALEM
12
Conservative : OLDLINE
13
Christmas refuse : NEEDLES
14
Drugs, perhaps : SEDATES
21
Work clothing : BLUEJEANS
24
The Furies : ERINYES
25
"Merry Wives of Windsor" windbag : SHALLOW
28
Bar companion : GRILL
29
Main : OCEAN
32
Blue Cross offering : HMO
34
Y class : CPR
36
Expendable : UNNEEDED
37
Visionary : UTOPIAN
38
"I'll ___ the Same" ('32 tune) : NEVERBE
39
She gets what's coming : HEIRESS
41
One aspect of earthquake study : GEOLOGY
42
Old Nick : EVILONE
43
Struck out : DELETED
46
Capra's "The Tea of General Yen" : BITTER
49
Stopping point : DEPOT
51
Native Israeli : SABRA
53
George Burns buddy Harry Von ___ : ZELL
55
Very short time, for short : MSEC
57
Map abbr. : AVE
59
Do Little work : APE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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