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New York Times, Wednesday, February 11, 1998

Author:
Nancy S. Ross
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Across : Valentine present!
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Nancy S. Ross

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JW} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 48 for Ms. Ross. Wednesday freshness: 12%
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L
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B
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C
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© 1998, The New York Times2/11/98 ( No. 17,627 )
Across
1
Arctic dwellers : LAPPS
6
Vegetate : LOAF
10
Irving protagonist : GARP
14
Belief of 1.1 billion : ISLAM
15
Thompson of "Sense and Sensibility" : EMMA
16
"Essays of ___," 1823 : ELIA
17
It's tucked under the chin : VIOLA
18
Farmer's prayer, perhaps : RAIN
19
1994 Jodie Foster film : NELL
20
Valentine present? : ADOZENREDROSES
23
Parisian parent : MERE
24
Motorists' org. : AAA
25
Piedmont wine center : ASTI
28
Passionate : ARDENT
31
Not to mention : AND
34
Grassy plain : LLANO
36
1953 Pulitzer playwright : INGE
37
"Turandot" slave : LIU
38
Valentine present? : BOXOFCHOCOLATES
42
Pithecanthropus relative : APE
43
Fare : FOOD
44
Iota : SPECK
45
Composer Rorem : NED
46
On-the-job learner : INTERN
49
Fish, to herons : PREY
50
Lineman : END
51
Monique's eye : OEIL
53
Valentine present! : ENGAGEMENTRING
60
Delete : XOUT
61
Overly bookish sort : NERD
62
Pharmacy solutions : AQUAS
64
Naysaying : ANTI
65
Just the ___ : SAME
66
Prom dress material : TULLE
67
50+ percent : MOST
68
Substitute for the unnamed : ETAL
69
Certain fisherman : EELER
Down
1
Year Claudius died : LIV
2
The East : ASIA
3
Trudge : PLOD
4
Popular parade horse : PALOMINO
5
Urban air pollution : SMAZE
6
"Gigi" lyricist : LERNER
7
Five-star Bradley : OMAR
8
Gallic girlfriend : AMIE
9
Spanish dance : FANDANGO
10
Setting for Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" : GENOA
11
Pub quaffs : ALES
12
Nettle : RILE
13
Comrades : PALS
21
Pitching stat. : ERA
22
Honey badgers : RATELS
25
Berg of "Lulu" fame : ALBAN
26
Incline : SLOPE
27
Burdened : TAXED
29
Electron tube : DIODE
30
Abbr. at the bottom of a letter : ENC
31
Modify : ALTER
32
Agnes, to Cecil B. : NIECE
33
Somewhat dark : DUSKY
35
In the ___ (likely to happen) : OFFING
39
Abridge : CONDENSE
40
Tap word : HOT
41
Sewn-on cutout design : APPLIQUE
47
Short poem on two rhymes : RONDEL
48
Bottom line : NET
50
Suffer a humiliating loss, in slang : EATIT
52
Breathing fire : IRATE
53
Course finale : EXAM
54
Talking during a film, e.g. : NONO
55
Fortitude : GUTS
56
Crux : MEAT
57
Humorist Bombeck : ERMA
58
Nonexistent : NULL
59
Severe blow : GALE
63
Homily: Abbr. : SER

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

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