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New York Times, Tuesday, November 25, 1997

Author:
Gregory E. Paul
Editor:
Will Shortz
59-Across : Legendary cowboy
TotalDebutLatest
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Gregory E. Paul

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 53 for Mr. Paul. Tuesday freshness: 56%
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© 1997, The New York Times11/25/97 ( No. 17,549 )
Across
1
Handle the situation : COPE
5
Harbinger : OMEN
9
Pancake topper : SYRUP
14
Drifters' "___ the Roof" : UPON
15
Application form information : NAME
16
Monopoly purchase : HOUSE
17
Alex Raymond comic strip : JUNGLEJIM
19
Peter of Peter and Gordon : ASHER
20
C.I.A. forerunner : OSS
21
Tokyo, once : EDO
22
Coin side : OBVERSE
24
Feature of five U.S. Presidents : BEARD
26
Apollo vehicle : LEM
27
Manager Anderson : SPARKY
30
Following orders : OBEDIENT
35
Corporate emblems : LOGOS
36
Clumsy dancer's problems : TOES
37
The Magi, e.g. : TRIO
38
Christie or Quindlen : ANNA
39
Things to crack : CODES
40
Part of E.M.T.: Abbr. : EMER
41
Kind of tea : ICED
42
Pearl Buck heroine : OLAN
43
Sacred song : PSALM
44
Western Hemisphere : NEWWORLD
46
Sliding dance step : CHASSE
47
The Red Baron, for one : ACE
48
Curtain fabric : SCRIM
50
Musicians : PLAYERS
54
Electric swimmer : EEL
55
Telephonic 3 : DEF
58
Kind of board : OUIJA
59
Legendary cowboy : PECOSBILL
62
Attach to a lapel : PINON
63
Wicked : EVIL
64
Come in last : LOSE
65
Adlai's 1956 running mate : ESTES
66
Broad valley : DALE
67
Sloth's home : TREE
Down
1
Stephen King novel : CUJO
2
Musical composition : OPUS
3
Operatic Lily : PONS
4
H.S. course : ENG
5
"Sometime..." : ONEDAY
6
Captain's superior : MAJOR
7
Record label with Capitol : EMI
8
Commander of the Nautilus : NEMO
9
Attacked the whiskers : SHAVED
10
Ornery Warner Bros. cartoon character : YOSEMITESAM
11
Essen's river : RUHR
12
Manipulates : USES
13
Father, in France : PERE
18
Vichyssoise ingredients : LEEKS
23
Give a benediction : BLESS
24
Namath's nickname : BROADWAYJOE
25
Gadgets : DOODADS
27
Done in : SLAIN
28
Puerto Rican port city : PONCE
29
1973 resigner : AGNEW
31
Existed : BEEN
32
Humorist Bombeck et al. : ERMAS
33
Physicist Bohr : NIELS
34
The Velvet Fog : TORME
36
Bridge fee : TOLL
39
Kitchen utensil : CORER
43
Collins and Donahue : PHILS
45
Seas : OCEANS
46
Louisiana lingo : CREOLE
49
Heavy-hitting Fielder : CECIL
50
"Essay on Man" author : POPE
51
San ___ Obispo, Calif. : LUIS
52
"You ___ seen nothin' yet!" : AINT
53
Raced : SPED
55
New Look designer : DIOR
56
If not : ELSE
57
Head for the hills : FLEE
60
Stowe girl : EVA
61
Lunch order, briefly : BLT

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

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