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New York Times, Saturday, January 29, 1994

Author:
Bob Klahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : It clinks in drinks
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
601/29/19945/22/201110
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CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.5746577%
Bob Klahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {BQVX} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Klahn. Saturday freshness: 26%
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© 1994, The New York Times1/29/94 ( No. 16,153 )
Across
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"Hide in Plain Sight" star : JAMESCAAN
10
Drumbeat : FLAM
14
Briefly : ATAGLANCE
15
Yammer : PRATE
16
"My ___" (1972 hit) : DINGALING
17
Preminger classic : LAURA
18
Never ever : ATNOTIME
19
Submit : HANDIN
20
It clinks in drinks : ICE
21
Pretends not to see : WINKSAT
22
Trump Castle, for one : CASINO
26
Whitman bloomer : LILAC
27
Behind, in a way : OWING
28
A number 1 : TOPDRAWER
32
Way to go : PATH
33
Hardly laid-back : TYPEA
34
Horse play? : POLO
35
Startling revelation : EYEOPENER
37
Pebble Beach contest : PROAM
38
1967 Uris novel : TOPAZ
39
Junior rocker : CRADLE
40
Blitzes with a blizzard : SNOWSIN
43
___ kwon do : TAE
44
Nicholson film "Drive, ___" : HESAID
45
Bent : PENCHANT
50
Wax Websterian : ORATE
51
Browne of "Black Like Me" : ROSCOELEE
52
Moves cautiously : EDGES
53
Irish Sea spot : ISLEOFMAN
54
Henna handler : DYER
55
Lombardi lecture : CHALKTALK
Down
1
Novelty hit of 1919 : JADA
2
Working hard : ATIT
3
"The Magic Mountain" author : MANN
4
Breakfast brand : EGGO
5
Scheduling : SLATING
6
Like Eugene Field's cat : CALICO
7
Lively, in Lyon : ANIME
8
Teen trauma : ACNE
9
Battery term. : NEG
10
"Pocketful of Miracles" director : FRANKCAPRA
11
Eulogizes : LAUDS
12
Places in the heart : ATRIA
13
"I ___ what I said" : MEANT
15
Two-dimensional : PLANAR
19
Imagist poet Doolittle : HILDA
21
Squeegee : WIPER
22
Rise to the occasion : COPE
23
On the road : AWAY
24
Planned setting : SITE
25
Steaming : INHOTWATER
26
"If I Had a Hammer" singer : LOPEZ
28
"Oh! Calcutta!" cowriter : TYNAN
29
Couples club : WOOD
30
Upwardly mobile Israeli group? : ELAL
31
Multiday building project? : ROME
33
Lukewarm : TEPID
36
Nosegays : POSIES
37
Make beforehand, as rice : PRECOOK
39
Scrub : CANCEL
40
Like some horses : SHOED
41
Square : NERDY
42
Orange or Indian : OSAGE
43
Radio pioneer : TESLA
45
Swanky : POSH
46
Avoirdupois : HEFT
47
Michigan college town : ALMA
48
1963 Best Actress : NEAL
49
Six-mile-plus run : TENK
51
Ocasek of the Cars : RIC

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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