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New York Times, Friday, November 5, 1999

Author:
Mark Diehl
Editor:
Will Shortz
61-Across : Gear-shift system, informally
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31.57592888%
Mark Diehl

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 30 Missing: {FQZ} This is puzzle # 25 for Mr. Diehl. Friday freshness: 75%
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P
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© 1999, The New York Times11/5/99 ( No. 18,259 )
Across
1
See 2-Down : PIGLATIN
9
Make a bust, maybe : SCULPT
15
What Bunyan grasped : AXHANDLE
16
Painter Daumier : HONORE
17
It may be critical : ANALYSIS
18
"Elements" writer : EUCLID
19
Charged : RANAT
20
Plato and Socrates : ATHENIANS
22
Bush, once : YALIE
24
Simmons competitor : SERTA
25
Missiles and such : AMMO
27
"La Bohème" setting : ATELIER
31
Foster home? : SWANEERIVER
35
Western Athletic Conference sch. : TCU
36
Back : HIND
37
One in the heat : RACER
38
It may precede or follow "as" : SUCH
39
French article : UNE
40
"Three's Company" role : JACKTRIPPER
42
Purposely underestimate : LOWBALL
44
Mrs. Chaplin : OONA
45
Lower Saxony seaport : EMDEN
47
Postgame goings-on : RECAP
50
Part of Poland's border : BALTICSEA
54
Backward-looking : RETRO
56
1999 U.S. Open champ : AGASSI
57
"It" star : CLARABOW
59
Establish a better foothold : REROOT
60
Atlantic City attraction : KENOGAME
61
Gear-shift system, informally : TRANNY
62
Saliva-producing organism, e.g. : SECRETOR
Down
1
He quarreled with Winchell : PAAR
2
"No!", in 1-Across : IXNAY
3
Lake Volta locale : GHANA
4
Dreamy state : LALALAND
5
"Happy to be of service!" : ANYTIME
6
Short scores? : TDS
7
Hip bones : ILIA
8
Sticky places? : NESTS
9
Cause of freezing, perhaps : SHEERTERROR
10
Reverse : COUNTER
11
Old Greek handwriting style : UNCIAL
12
Anouk Aimée title role of 1961 : LOLA
13
Sch. bigwig : PRIN
14
Turner and others : TEDS
21
Stop the ship : HEAVETO
23
Baum locale : EMERALDCITY
26
Medium settings? : ORACLES
28
Words after give or live : ITUP
29
Word from Pontius Pilate : ECCE
30
River to the Rhine : RUHR
31
Holy Ark locale : SHUL
32
Lush : WINO
33
De novo : ANEW
34
"Eeew!" : ICK
38
Forward-looking : SPACEAGE
40
N.B.A. star Antawn ___ : JAMISON
41
Mistakenly : INERROR
43
Backs, in a way : BETSON
46
Places for braces : NECKS
48
Ready to hit : ATBAT
49
Interest piquer : PROMO
50
One of TV's Maverick brothers : BART
51
Ethylene vis-à-vis fruit : AGER
52
Superman's mother : LARA
53
Sheltered : ALEE
55
Deadbeat, e.g. : OWER
58
Mandela org. : ANC

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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