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New York Times, Saturday, July 4, 1998

Author:
Harvey Estes
Editor:
Will Shortz
29-Across : Union fighter: Abbr.
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Harvey Estes

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 34 for Mr. Estes. Saturday freshness: 33%
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© 1998, The New York Times7/4/98 ( No. 17,770 )
Across
1
Paul Claudel's "Cinq Grandes ___" : ODES
5
"My word!" : EGAD
9
"Civil Disobedience," e.g. : ESSAY
14
Lead, often : TITLEROLE
16
Pitch : SLOPE
17
Reporter's quest : INTERVIEW
18
Winter treat : COCOA
19
One way to serve 18-Across : STEAMING
20
Nearing bedtime : LATISH
21
Sound of swift passage : ZING
22
It goes with tails : TOPHAT
23
Prick : STING
25
Picnic serving : COLESLAW
27
Use a food mill : PUREE
28
Dewlaps : JOWLS
29
Union fighter: Abbr. : CSA
30
On ___ (equipotent) : APAR
31
Manners : MODES
32
"Double Indemnity" author : CAIN
33
Brainard, the Absent-Minded Professor : NED
34
N.B.A. teammate since 1947 : LAKER
35
Parceled : DOLED
36
Mugged : GRIMACED
38
"A Natural Man" singer, 1971 : RAWLS
39
Cairn composition : STONES
40
Met manager, 1950-72 : BING
41
Jukes : FEINTS
42
Not drawn out : SUCCINCT
46
Really fancy : ADORE
47
Where a bus passenger might step : TOTHEREAR
48
Purport : TENOR
49
Flood mark : WATERLINE
50
Museum Folkwang locale : ESSEN
51
Metallurgist's stock : ORES
52
Knock off : SLAY
Down
1
Cager Thorpe : OTIS
2
Exertion : DINT
3
Suffix with disk : ETTE
4
Less reputable : SLEAZIER
5
1981 N.B.A. M.V.P. : ERVING
6
Like some concerns : GOING
7
Shake or break follower : ALEG
8
To Shakespeare it was "honey-heavy" : DEW
9
They may be narrow : ESCAPES
10
Couch potatoes, say : SLOTHS
11
Visit : SOCIALCALL
12
Desertions of dogma : APOSTASIES
13
"___, right!" : YEAH
15
Ferret's cousin : ERMINE
20
Slouches : LOLLS
22
Broadcaster's need : TOWER
23
Displaces : SUPERSEDES
24
Customs : TRADITIONS
25
Unreadable : CODED
26
Pixie stick : WAND
27
Qualm : PANG
28
Laughing stock? : JOKES
31
Uses an airborne defense : MACES
32
Barrel race participants : COWGIRLS
34
Revere signaler : LANTERN
35
Ball boy or ball girl? : DANCER
37
Bill ___, the Father of Bluegrass : MONROE
38
Forty-niner's quest : RICHES
40
Evel Knievel's hometown : BUTTE
41
It may have a twist : FATE
42
Shoot up : SOAR
43
Quarterback O'Donnell : NEIL
44
"Marriage at ___" (Veronese painting) : CANA
45
One more than 47-Down : TREY
47
Low card : TWO

Answer summary:
5 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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