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New York Times, Friday, January 22, 1999

Author:
Ed Early
Editor:
Will Shortz
22-Across : Climate of an era
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
557/7/19947/14/20081
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1917117442
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5419532%
Ed Early

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {HQ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Early. Friday freshness: 16%
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© 1999, The New York Times1/22/99 ( No. 17,972 )
Across
1
Top stories : ATTICS
7
Grafters' needs : BUDS
11
Tolkien cannibal : ORC
14
Graft : BOODLE
15
From square one : ANEW
16
Kind of patch : PEA
17
"Dialogues of the Gods" satirist : LUCIAN
18
Least obscure : CLEAREST
20
Insurance ploy : ARSON
21
Pool tool : SKIMMER
22
Climate of an era : ZEITGEIST
24
Sing the blues : WAIL
27
White-tailed birds : ERNS
28
Surname separator : NEE
29
Fly over the Equator : TSETSE
31
Georg Büchner's "Leonce and ___" : LENA
32
Cause of hereditary variation : ALLELE
33
Dilbert is stuck on it : CORPORATELADDER
38
Inexorable process : AGEING
39
Didn't stand pat : DREW
40
Frasier portrayer : KELSEY
41
Didn't malfunction : RAN
42
It may be lost or saved : FACE
46
Antidiscrimination agcy. : EEOC
47
Swinger, perhaps : JITTERBUG
49
Chump change in Chihuahua : CENTAVO
52
Longshoreman : LADER
53
Homer's "Eight Bells," e.g. : SEASCAPE
55
Disqualify, as a juror : RECUSE
56
Muesli morsel : OAT
57
Paul Bunyan, at times : AXER
58
Passes : ENACTS
59
Fitting : DUE
60
Is a good Samaritan : AIDS
61
Bow ties and others : PASTAS
Down
1
Like hell : ABLAZE
2
Band member, often : TOURER
3
Alarm bell : TOCSIN
4
Sherwood's "___ Delight" : IDIOTS
5
Repeated word in "The Trolley Song" : CLANG
6
Cambodian coin : SEN
7
Conversation steerers? : BACKSEATDRIVERS
8
Not 1-Down : UNLIT
9
Judge : DEEM
10
Was dizzy : SWAM
11
Didn't malfunction : OPERATED
12
Hi-___ : RES
13
Russian blue, e.g. : CAT
19
Join again, in a way : REWELD
21
St. Catherine's birthplace : SIENA
23
Physicist's study : ENERGY
25
___ au Haut, Me. : ISLE
26
Goatish glance : LEER
29
Concern of some agencies : TALENT
30
Popular picnic dish : SLAW
31
Unattended : LONE
33
Decorator's base : CAKE
34
S-curve : OGEE
35
Move : RELOCATE
36
Winter arrival : PISCES
37
One of a mythological ennead : ERATO
42
Row : FRACAS
43
Take away : ABDUCT
44
Gentle slope with a sudden drop : CUESTA
45
Go out : EGRESS
47
Made fun of : JAPED
48
"Mefistofele" role : ELENA
50
Wildcats' org. : NCAA
51
Picker-upper : TAXI
53
Buster preceder : SOD
54
Fontaine filler : EAU
55
One of 435, for short : REP

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

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