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New York Times, Saturday, November 27, 1999

Author:
Patrick D. Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
22-Across : Cave-dweller
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
2297/11/199911/4/20182
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741241679512
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
981.541,84281%
Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQWX} Spans: 2 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Berry. Saturday freshness: 51%
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© 1999, The New York Times11/27/99 ( No. 18,281 )
Across
1
Explorer Vasco Núñez de ___ : BALBOA
7
Part of a loading zone, maybe : RAMP
11
Up in arms : FURIOUS
12
Word of parting : ADIOS
14
Melbourne is its capital : VICTORIA
15
Warner-Lambert product : ZANTAC
17
Kind of price : ASKING
18
Noted buffalo hunters : NEZPERCE
20
Won't meet : SHUNS
21
Waited : SAT
22
Cave-dweller : TROLL
23
Book marks : TYPE
24
Whimpered : PULED
26
Crossjack, e.g. : SAIL
27
Noted TV debut of 9/8/66 : STARTREK
30
Calypso offshoot : SKA
31
Anonymous work, often : POISONPENLETTER
35
That girl in "That Girl" : ANN
36
"O curse of ___!": Othello : MARRIAGE
37
Hunger : ITCH
39
Like some mouthwashes : MINTY
40
How workaholics often work : LATE
44
Billing matters : ROLES
46
"Something just crossed my mind..." : SAY
47
Beg off : DEMUR
48
Homer, e.g. : EPICPOET
50
"Guys and Dolls" locale : HAVANA
51
Aircraft designer Douglas of Douglas Aircraft : DONALD
52
Details : ITEMIZES
54
Rank : FETID
55
File destroyers : VIRUSES
56
Installs : SETS
57
Took off (with) : ELOPED
Down
1
Advice for a gloomy Gus : BUCKUP
2
Highbrowism : ARTINESS
3
Roman Colosseum sights : LIONS
4
Wimbledon champ for five years straight : BORG
5
Nice response : OUI
6
"You might also consider..." : ASANALTERNATIVE
7
Tease : RAZZ
8
Fight extinction, maybe : ADAPT
9
Lightheaded people? : MINERS
10
Sunday entree : POTROAST
11
Suspicious : FISHY
13
Resembling a spore : SACLIKE
14
Wide-ranging : VAST
16
Last position : CELLAR
19
All the time in the world : ETERNITY
21
Party line? : SURPRISE
24
Clipper name : PANAM
25
Airport worry : DELAY
28
Barnyard male : TOM
29
Powder site : KEG
31
Like waltzers : PAIRED
32
Handily handling : ONTOPOF
33
Banks : INCLINES
34
Air : TELEVISE
38
Witchcraft goddess, in Greek myth : HECATE
41
Blown away : AMAZED
42
Whistlers' whistles : TUNES
43
Postwar period and others : ERAS
45
Thieves' arrangement : SPLIT
47
Obstruct : DAMUP
49
Factor in decision-making : ODDS
50
Achilles, e.g. : HERO
53
Up to,informally : TIL

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

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