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New York Times, Saturday, January 9, 1999

Author:
Harvey Estes
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Across : There may be a gap between them
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Harvey Estes

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 37 Missing: {HJQXZ} This is puzzle # 38 for Mr. Estes. Saturday freshness: 13%
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© 1999, The New York Times1/9/99 ( No. 17,959 )
Across
1
Very visible point : ACME
5
Rough : RUDE
9
Set up : FRAME
14
Pitman : COALMINER
16
Photographer Siskind : AARON
17
Full of hedges : TENTATIVE
18
Kind of airship : RIGID
19
Like phrase book entries : IDIOMATIC
20
Exercises : USES
21
Uncertifiable? : SANE
22
Person with a J.D. : ATT
23
Lorillard brand : KENT
24
Tolerate : BROOK
26
Do a slow burn : STEW
28
Bad move : MISPLAY
33
Iceberg alternative : ROMAINE
35
V-E Day celebrants : ALLIES
36
Not bought, perhaps : RENTED
37
Enters quietly : SLIPSIN
39
There may be a gap between them : GENDERS
40
One-named pop/R.&B. singer : SADE
41
His last film was "Pocketful of Miracles" : CAPRA
43
Fink : TELL
45
Cole Porter's "___ Clown" : BEA
46
First ___ : DIBS
50
Jay Gould railroad : ERIE
51
Personified : INCARNATE
54
Zoologists' study : FAUNA
55
Sail at the America's Cup : SPINNAKER
56
Lands in water : ISLES
57
One with big arms : CANNONEER
58
They'll get you down : GEESE
59
"Freaks" star Baclanova : OLGA
60
Coastal raptors : ERNS
Down
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Intermission preceder : ACTI
2
Subjects of old Playboy pictorials : COEDS
3
Furbies, e.g., in 1998 : MANIA
4
Country yodeler ___ Britt : ELTON
5
Title woman in a Beatles song : RITA
6
Whole : UNITARY
7
He played a twin in "Twins" : DEVITO
8
Kind of set : ERECTOR
9
Fuad's successor: Var. : FARUK
10
Make a commotion : RAISESAND
11
Valuable silver ore : ARGENTITE
12
Mailroom device : MOISTENER
13
It may be living or dead : END
15
Jerry Herman musical : MAME
24
No-frills : BASIC
25
Perennial trouble spot : KOREA
27
Makes one : WEDS
28
Large-scale : MASS
29
Nervous : ILLATEASE
30
Old tool for working on logs : SLIDERULE
31
Crude carriers : PIPELINES
32
Baxter of the swing era : LES
34
Door word : MEN
38
LifeSavers producer : NABISCO
39
Adorning : GRACING
42
Foreign correspondent, perhaps : PENPAL
44
Paper for a pad : LEASE
46
Noted Joseph Wiseman role : DRNO
47
Daffy : INANE
48
Doughnut? : BAKER
49
"Serenade" painter : STEEN
52
Grandma Moses' first name : ANNA
53
Is guilty of a 28-Across : ERRS
54
Whit : FIG

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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