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New York Times, Tuesday, August 3, 1999

Author:
Dave Tuller
Editor:
Will Shortz
47-Across : "The Screwtape Letters" writer
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Dave Tuller

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FQZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Tuller. Tuesday freshness: 83%
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C
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© 1999, The New York Times8/3/99 ( No. 18,165 )
Across
1
Plotting group : CABAL
6
"Get away!" : SCAT
10
Propped open, perhaps : AJAR
14
Radarange maker : AMANA
15
Pal of Piglet : POOH
16
"But wait, there's ___!" : MORE
17
Person who looks exactly like another : BODYDOUBLE
19
Verne captain : NEMO
20
District : AREA
21
Union Pacific et al.: Abbr. : RRS
22
1978 Burt Reynolds film : HOOPER
24
Constantly find fault with : NAG
25
Storage box : BIN
26
Make drinks : BARTEND
27
Vice President from Tennessee : ALGORE
29
School for martial arts : DOJO
30
"Sprechen ___ Deutsch?" : SIE
31
Cater basely : PANDER
33
Mark for life : SCAR
34
Person who looks exactly like another : IDENTICALTWIN
38
Got 100% on : ACED
39
High points : MAXIMA
40
VCR button : REC
41
German-built car : OPEL
43
"Melt in your mouth" candy : MANDMS
47
"The Screwtape Letters" writer : CSLEWIS
49
Son of, in Arabic names : IBN
50
"Oh" de Cologne? : ACH
51
Closely trimmed : SHAVEN
52
It precedes "Blastoff!" : ONE
53
Aptly named fruit : UGLI
54
"Able was ___..." : IERE
55
Person who looks exactly like another : DEADRINGER
58
At no time, in poetry : NEER
59
Yearn (for) : ACHE
60
Porterhouse, e.g. : STEAK
61
Airport info: Abbr. : ETDS
62
Sauce thickener : ROUX
63
Some people lock them : HORNS
Down
1
Bathhouse : CABANA
2
Unprincipled : AMORAL
3
No-goodnik : BADEGG
4
Novelist Seton : ANYA
5
Young boy : LAD
6
Turn away : SPURN
7
Corn leftovers : COBS
8
Prodigy alternative, for short : AOL
9
Leon Uris novel : THEHAJ
10
Response to "Are too!" : AMNOT
11
"My Cousin Vinny" star : JOEPESCI
12
Azerbaijani's neighbor : ARMENIAN
13
Stock up on again : REORDER
18
Prepare, as incoming students : ORIENT
23
___ y plata (Montana's motto) : ORO
25
Ingredient in many cereals : BRAN
26
Common cleanser : BORAX
28
Kind of page : OPED
29
Bike stick-on : DECAL
32
March of ___ : DIMES
33
Kind of dive : SWAN
34
Winter driving hazard : ICESHEET
35
Bid, in bridge : DECLARED
36
Flexible : LIMBER
37
Eliot Ness, e.g. : TMAN
38
Inverse math function : ARCSINE
41
Be in debt to : OWE
42
Greek odist : PINDAR
44
Stiletto or dirk : DAGGER
45
"American Pie" singer Don : MCLEAN
46
Evades, as work : SHIRKS
48
Tinker to ___ to Chance : EVERS
49
Dow Jones Average, e.g. : INDEX
52
Waikiki's island : OAHU
53
Golden rule word : UNTO
56
Author Umberto : ECO
57
Kind of: Suffix : ISH

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

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