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New York Times, Saturday, November 18, 2000

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Nat King Cole's "___ Things Money Can't Buy"
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {X} This is puzzle # 133 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 81%
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© 2000, The New York Times11/18/0 ( No. 18,638 )
Across
1
Holdup : BANKJOB
8
Folded : CREASED
15
Not varied at all : ONENOTE
16
Good reception : WELCOME
17
Where some jams are made : STREETS
18
It may be stuck in a corner : PUSHPIN
19
Put away : SAVED
20
Nat King Cole's "___ Things Money Can't Buy" : THOSE
22
N.F.L. positions: Abbr. : RTS
23
Sister of Ares : ERIS
24
Early statistical software : DBASE
25
1970's baseball All-Star Colbert : NATE
26
Study : DEN
27
Designer who popularized the miniskirt : QUANT
28
1930's-40's Czech president : BENES
29
Aftermaths : SEQUELS
31
Pete Fountain collaborator : ALHIRT
32
Challenge : TALLORDER
34
Derelict : REMISS
37
Part of a score : MEASURE
40
Opening in the Mideast? : ALEPH
41
Lemon, maybe : SCENT
42
Speaker's no-nos : UMS
44
Fix : MESS
45
Balbo of the Black Shirt Militia : ITALO
46
"Power Lunch" network : CNBC
47
Step : PAS
48
Sore spots? : SCABS
49
Collection of Hindu truths : SUTRA
50
Shrubs of the heath family : AZALEAS
52
Hand : OVATION
54
Honky-tonk : RAGTIME
55
Extemporizes : FAKESIT
56
Locks out of a tower, in a fairy tale : TRESSES
57
Anew : FRESHLY
Down
1
Directed : BOSSED
2
Star in Scorpius : ANTARES
3
Soothing medicine : NERVINE
4
Cap locales : KNEES
5
Baseball immortal, familiarly : JOED
6
Baseball immortal : OTT
7
Golf competition : BESTBALL
8
Campus in Brookville, L.I. : CWPOST
9
Be efficient with : REUSE
10
In addition : ELSE
11
Katzenjammer cry : ACH
12
Higher-ups? : SOPRANI
13
One with issues? : EMITTER
14
Least bright : DENSEST
21
Central Park sight : HANSOMCAB
24
Some showdowns : DUELS
25
"Toward Freedom" autobiographer : NEHRU
27
Repress : QUASH
28
Like a friar's food : BLEST
30
Sticks in a cabinet : QTIPS
31
Town in a 1945 Pulitzer winner : ADANO
33
Recites with ease : REELSOFF
34
Barricade : RAMPART
35
Dartmouth founder Wheelock : ELEAZAR
36
Bottle contents, maybe : MESSAGE
38
Scrawny : RUNTISH
39
Involve : EMBROIL
41
Failures to move : STASES
43
Less than needed : SCANTY
45
Part of an ancient trio : ICAME
46
Affected modesty, with "the" : CUTES
48
Evening hour, in Madrid : SEIS
49
Consideration : SAKE
51
U.S.N. officers : LTS
53
Nonstandard: Abbr. : VAR

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

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