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New York Times, Saturday, May 22, 1999

Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Will Shortz
16-Across : "The Rural Muse" poet
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A. J. Santora

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 233 for Mr. Santora. Saturday freshness: 45%
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© 1999, The New York Times5/22/99 ( No. 18,092 )
Across
1
Kind of improvement : VAST
5
Masterstroke : FEAT
9
See 17-Across : SPEED
14
It has a big mouth : EWER
15
Guisado cooker : OLLA
16
"The Rural Muse" poet : CLARE
17
Event for which 9-Across is needed : RACE
18
Ask too much of : OVERCHARGE
20
Chestnuts : BROMIDES
22
___-de-boeuf (oval windows) : OEILS
23
They're not single in Seville : SENORAS
24
Offended : HURT
25
Stowe novel : DRED
26
Composition for three : TERZETTO
30
Game cries : RAHS
32
One way to sell : DOORTODOOR
34
Slangy intensifier : OLA
35
Places for large nails : BIGTOES
36
Long, on Lanai : LOA
37
Tones up : CONDITIONS
39
Compaq competitor : DELL
40
Hospital administration : SEDATIVE
41
Prison part : YARD
43
Julia's portrayer on "Party of Five" : NEVE
44
Miser : SCROOGE
47
Roberts of ABC : COKIE
49
They clean locks : SHAMPOOS
50
Hose and pumps : WOMENSWEAR
52
Cries of surprise : OHOS
53
"Give it ___!" : AREST
54
Dispose of : VEND
55
Worldwide chess org. : FIDE
56
Baghdad Pact predecessor: Abbr. : CENTO
57
Refuges : ARKS
58
Vaudevillian family of note : FOYS
Down
1
Shake, rattle and roll : VERBS
2
Apprised : AWARE
3
Tick producer : SECONDHAND
4
Earth movers? : TREMORS
5
Nutrition center no-nos : FOODADDITIVES
6
Little people : ELVES
7
Inn inventory : ALES
8
Road crew supply : TAR
9
Chopin wrote four : SCHERZOS
10
Like cornrows : PLAITED
11
Count, now : EARL
12
___ per second (luminosity unit) : ERGS
13
Balmoral Castle's river : DEE
19
Sources of some discounts : COURTESYCARDS
21
Source of heat : IRE
24
Great white ___ : HERON
26
Head-___ (thorough) : TOTOE
27
Great Lakes port of entry : TOLEDOOHIO
28
Plane, e.g. : TOOL
29
Kind of surgeon : ORAL
30
"Arabian Nights" creatures : ROCS
31
Shower gel ingredient : ALOE
33
Pointed arch : OGIVE
35
Start eating : BITEINTO
38
Most damp : DANKEST
39
Nod : DROPOFF
42
Doll snap-on : ARM
44
Butcher's offering : SHANK
45
Treat : GOODY
46
Parts of some driving tests : ESSES
47
Place for seeds : CORE
48
Preindication : OMEN
49
Merlin, e.g. : SEER
50
W.W. II server : WAC
51
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" subj. : WVA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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