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New York Times, Friday, April 17, 1998

Author:
Matt Gaffney
Editor:
Will Shortz
Father worshiped a tennis star, to a palindromist
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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Matt Gaffney

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 38 Missing: {BJQXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 44 for Mr. Gaffney. Friday freshness: 11%
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© 1998, The New York Times4/17/98 ( No. 17,692 )
Across
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The going rate? : SPEED
6
Grow at a progressive rate : PYRAMID
13
Marked the hour : TOLLED
15
Three before seven : AREACODE
16
Father worshiped a tennis star, to a palindromist : POPDEIFIEDSELES
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Imitating : ALA
19
Fancy desk : ROLLTOP
20
Skip, as stones on water : DAP
21
Mosaic piece : TESSERA
23
"The Martyrdom of ___" (classic Muslim work) : ALI
24
Kind of skin : DOE
25
The Way : TAO
28
University of California campus : DAVIS
30
Favorite oriole home : ELM
33
Professorial work : TREATISE
35
Hawaii senator erased facts, to a palindromist : AKAKADELEDSTATS
39
"The Addams Family" role : MORTICIA
40
"There ___ goes..." : SHE
41
Goodyear's home : AKRON
42
Compass pt. : SSE
44
Crab : NAG
47
Courtroom anonym : ROE
48
Teases : LEADSON
52
Mom's twins? : EMS
53
Some functions : DINNERS
57
One's successor : TWO
58
Youngster helped society, to a palindromist : TOTDIDCIVICDEED
61
Get drunk : TIEONEON
62
Links : COURSE
63
Like many teens at the movies : ONDATES
64
Canvases : TENTS
Down
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Parade honoree, for short : STPAT
2
Consolidated : POOLED
3
Westernmost county of Texas : ELPASO
4
Time of legend : ELD
5
Lawn mower brand : DEERE
6
___-à-porter (ready-to-wear) : PRET
7
Tokyo, once : YEDO
8
Filer : RASP
9
King of the skies : ACE
10
Region of eastern Europe : MOLDAVIA
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Utopian : IDEALIST
12
Is unable to stand : DESPISES
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Maker of the fragrance Poison : DIOR
15
Suffer : AIL
17
Unexciting : FLAT
22
"Never ___ tell thy love": Blake : SEEKTO
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Road ___ : ATLAS
27
It's found in banks : ORE
28
A little salt : DASH
29
Make it : ATTEND
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Reclined : LAIN
32
Year in Elizabeth I's reign : MDC
34
Seventeen people?: Abbr. : EDS
35
Italian for "rather bitter" : AMARETTO
36
City near Grissom A.F.B. : KOKOMOIN
37
Brought in : ARRESTED
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Frozen Wasser : EIS
43
Ht. : ELEV
45
In reverse : ASTERN
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Advice of 1851 : GOWEST
49
N.F.L.'s Dickerson : ERIC
50
Race site : ASCOT
51
Foci : NODES
53
Exertion : DINT
54
Descartes "product" : IDEE
55
Sgt. maj. and others : NCOS
56
"The Delta of Venus" author : NIN
59
1988 Meg Ryan film : DOA
60
Directly : DUE

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

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