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New York Times, Friday, February 28, 1997

Author:
Bob Klahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : Hightails it
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
601/29/19945/22/201110
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CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.5746577%
Bob Klahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 28 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 6, (2 triple stacks) This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Klahn. Friday freshness: 40%
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© 1997, The New York Times2/28/97 ( No. 17,279 )
Across
1
To the limit : ASFARASPOSSIBLE
16
Unfortunate meeting : HEADONCOLLISION
17
Hightails it : MAKESTHEDUSTFLY
18
Needle point? : ENE
19
Ferments : SIMMERS
20
LAX regulators : FAA
21
Edward G. Robinson's role in "Little Caesar" : RICO
22
Provoke : ROIL
24
Certain Louisianians : CAJUNS
27
Hidden : VEILED
31
Dweller on the Gulf of Masirah : OMANI
32
Crowning point on a building : COPESTONE
35
Small version : MINI
36
Selenic : LUNAR
37
Chinese mafia : TONG
38
Swamped : INUNDATED
40
Old photo : SEPIA
41
Tracy to Hepburn, often : COSTAR
42
Museum pieces : TORSOS
43
Bacchanal : ORGY
45
One of the Flagston family, in the funnies : LOIS
46
"Mamma" follower : MIA
49
Guardianship : KEEPING
51
Cold and blustery : RAW
54
Steamy 1973 best seller : ONCEISNOTENOUGH
57
Route for a Liverpool ferry, in song : ACROSSTHEMERSEY
58
Rosamunde Pilcher novel made into a TV movie : THESHELLSEEKERS
Down
1
Sighed line? : AHME
2
Hans, in Ireland : SEAN
3
Mountebank : FAKE
4
Suffix with cannon : ADE
5
"Semiramide" composer : ROSSINI
6
Funny business : ANTICS
7
Jerk : SCHMO
8
Lay, e.g. : POEM
9
Senior : OLDER
10
Hurriedly mumble : SLUROVER
11
Pantywaists : SISSIES
12
Suffix with ideal : IST
13
Son of Willy Loman : BIFF
14
Gwen in "Damn Yankees" : LOLA
15
"Orinoco Flow" singer : ENYA
21
Encounter : RUNINTO
23
Bearings? : LITTERS
24
"The Katzenjammer Kids," e.g. : COMIC
25
Kind of acid : AMINO
26
He looks both ways : JANUS
28
Handwriting features : LOOPS
29
"The Untouchables" composer Morricone : ENNIO
30
"Dancer at the Bar" painter : DEGAS
32
Injured : CUT
33
Buck : ONE
34
Shock absorber : PAD
36
Liberality : LARGESSE
39
On the swarthy side : DARKISH
40
Well-groomed : SOIGNEE
42
Language sound unit : TONEME
44
Streisand's directorial debut : YENTL
45
Some Millers : LITES
46
Stage protection : MOAT
47
Creep : INCH
48
One to grow on? : ACRE
50
Sci-fi writer Frederik : POHL
51
Trojan horse, for example : RUSE
52
"Ain't She Sweet?" composer : AGER
53
Reasons : WHYS
55
Daughter of Hyperion : EOS
56
Where Mindy honeymooned, in 1981 TV : ORK

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

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