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New York Times, Saturday, January 7, 1995

Author:
Randolph Ross
Editor:
Will Shortz
57-Across : Mean person
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Randolph Ross

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQWZ} This is puzzle # 20 for Mr. Ross. Saturday freshness: 92%
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© 1995, The New York Times1/7/95 ( No. 16,496 )
Across
1
Goldfinger's target : FORTKNOX
9
Chest on the Spanish Main : ARCA
13
Egg order : OVEREASY
14
Guarantee : AVOUCH
16
Change of mind : REVERSAL
17
Source of shoots : BAMBOO
18
Meadowlands : GREENAGE
19
Hoddy-doddies : SNAILS
20
Crewman : OAR
21
Ant, in dialect : EMMET
23
Cellular prefix : CYT
24
Extract : ELICIT
28
Sore winner : INGRATE
30
Magician's secret place : SLEEVE
31
Necessitated : ENTAILED
32
The 8 in V-8 : CYLINDERS
34
"Shh!" : BESILENT
37
Tomato troubles : EDEMAS
41
Sisyphean : USELESS
42
Opening word : SESAME
43
Address abbr. : RTE
44
Represent in person : ACTAS
47
Little of Scotland : SMA
48
Yank in the Yucatan : GRINGO
50
Props and scenery : STAGESET
54
Police presentation : LINEUP
55
Put on one's thinking cap : COGITATE
56
Means of admittance : ENTREE
57
Mean person : AVERAGER
58
Paris newspaper France-___ : SOIR
59
Sidewalk entrepreneurs : PEDDLERS
Down
1
Skips : FORGOES
2
In general : OVERALL
3
Mental vacation, so to speak : REVERIE
4
Clothes hanger : TREE
5
"Show Boat" composer : KERN
6
Endeavour initials : NASA
7
River to the Missouri : OSAGE
8
Plant circulatory system : XYLEM
9
Cutting-edge : AVANTGARDE
10
Villa Borghese site : ROMA
11
Like dice : CUBICAL
12
Attendant : ACOLYTE
14
Election tippers, sometimes : ABSENTEES
15
Presided over : HOSTED
22
Care : MIND
25
Mr. Rhodes of Rhodesia : CECIL
26
Eli, for one : IVYLEAGUER
27
Shorten : TELESCOPE
29
Surges : RISES
31
M.D. specialty : ENT
33
Think tank: Abbr. : INST
34
Rob : BURGLE
35
Female hormones : ESTRINS
36
Use X-ray vision : SEEINTO
38
Rolfing : MASSAGE
39
Current calculator : AMMETER
40
Ushers : SEATERS
45
Org. co-founded by Victor Herbert : ASCAP
46
Coal burner : STOVE
49
Rodolfo ___, first Mexican astronaut : NERI
51
Hoary : AGED
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Prepare for action : GIRD
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Library catalogue abbr. : ETAL

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2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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