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New York Times, Monday, May 26, 1997

Author:
Eileen Lexau
Editor:
Will Shortz
24-Down : "Um, excuse me"
TotalDebutLatest
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Eileen Lexau

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JKQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 23 for Ms. Lexau. Monday freshness: 51%
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N
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© 1997, The New York Times5/26/97 ( No. 17,366 )
Across
1
Prop up : BRACE
6
Goddess pictured in Egyptian tombs : ISIS
10
Fraud : SCAM
14
Old autos : AEROS
15
Short letter : NOTE
16
Patriot Nathan : HALE
17
Feeling really good : ONTOPOFTHEWORLD
20
Get-out-of-jail money : BAIL
21
Hors d'oeuvre spread : PATE
22
Song for Aida : ARIA
23
Chomped down : ATE
24
"___ cost to you!" : ATNO
25
Novelist Waugh : EVELYN
27
Batter's goal : BASEHIT
29
Frigid : ICY
30
"Turandot" slave girl : LIU
31
Moon-landing vehicle : LEM
32
___ de Triomphe : ARC
33
"I ___ Grow Up" ("Peter Pan" song) : WONT
34
Heads of state get-together : SUMMITMEETING
38
"It can't be!" : OHNO
39
Be in session : SIT
40
Nothing : NIL
41
Peas' holder : POD
42
Pennies: Abbr. : CTS
43
Creeks : STREAMS
47
Storm warnings at sea : SWELLS
49
Clinton's #2 : GORE
50
Wrestler's place : MAT
51
Site for a swing : TREE
52
Rikki-tikki-___ (Kipling mongoose) : TAVI
53
Capable of : UPTO
54
Little that's visible : TIPOFTHEICEBERG
57
Poker call : IMIN
58
Mending site : HOLE
59
Louis XIV, 1643-1715 : LEROI
60
Hawaii's state bird : NENE
61
Remove from office : OUST
62
Dunne of "I Remember Mama" : IRENE
Down
1
Thick-trunked tropical tree : BAOBAB
2
Italian soprano Scotto : RENATA
3
Clarinetist Shaw and others : ARTIES
4
Refrigerate : COOL
5
One of Kreskin's claims : ESP
6
Wee one : INFANT
7
___ voce (almost in a whisper) : SOTTO
8
Spillane's "___ Jury" : ITHE
9
Visualize : SEE
10
Beach : SHORE
11
Set of bells : CARILLON
12
Relieving : ALLAYING
13
Club ___ : MED
18
They expect the best : OPTIMISTS
19
Undulating : WAVY
24
"Um, excuse me" : AHEM
25
Like a three-dollar bill : ECCENTRIC
26
Cashew, e.g. : NUT
28
"Tickle me" doll : ELMO
29
Anger : IRE
32
Quantity: Abbr. : AMT
33
Sly trick : WILE
34
Cable channel : SHOWTIME
35
Support : UNDERPIN
36
"___ the season..." : TIS
37
Radial, e.g. : TIRE
38
Photo ___ (media events) : OPS
42
Musical sign : CLEF
43
Bygone Russian group : SOVIET
44
Electrical unit : AMPERE
45
Female attendant : MATRON
46
Cheap cigar : STOGIE
48
Sierra ___ : LEONE
49
Scottish Celts : GAELS
52
10 C-notes : THOU
53
Opposite of unter, in German : UBER
54
Can's composition : TIN
55
Notwithstanding that, briefly : THO
56
Biblical priest : ELI

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

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