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New York Times, Friday, March 26, 1999

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
15-Across : Gymnast's need
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 39 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 28 for Mr. Quigley. Friday freshness: 18%
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© 1999, The New York Times3/26/99 ( No. 18,035 )
Across
1
Sat tight : BIDED
6
Boaters' relatives : PANAMAS
13
Excites : FIRESUP
15
Gymnast's need : AGILITY
16
Matthew, for one : APOSTLE
17
Disarmed : WONOVER
18
Nintendo arcade game of the 80's : DONKEYKONGJR
20
Cold war proj. : SDI
21
Medevac destinations, briefly : ERS
22
Yoga posture : ASANA
26
Token of victory : SCALP
30
When doubled, a dance : CHA
32
Pro ___ : TEM
33
Places where customs are important : PORTSOFENTRY
37
Roosevelt Island's locale : ROSSSEA
40
Pennsylvania resort area : POCONOS
41
Photographic technique : TIMEEXPOSURE
43
Helm heading : ENE
44
Bow wood : YEW
45
Robust : LUSTY
48
Depicts unfairly : SKEWS
51
The Eagle, e.g. : LEM
53
Like a Burnsian mouse : WEE
55
Poor Yorick was a fellow of this, said Hamlet : INFINITEJEST
60
"The Thorn Birds" novelist McCullough : COLLEEN
63
Flippant response to a rebuke : SOSUEME
64
Not dead : ANIMATE
65
Ballade's trio : STANZAS
66
New shoots : RETAKES
67
1967 Chemistry Nobelist : EIGEN
Down
1
Rifle supports : BIPODS
2
Like some of Chekhov's writings : IRONIC
3
Study furniture : DESK
4
Tasso's patron : ESTE
5
As is fitting : DULY
6
Loan sources : PAWNSHOPS
7
Enthralled : AGOG
8
Kind of warrior : NINJA
9
Then: Fr. : ALORS
10
Year in Basil II's rule : MIV
11
Had a little lamb : ATE
12
Neighbor of Turk. : SYR
13
Passing things : FADS
14
Chow alternative : PEKE
19
Tolkien creatures : ORCS
23
Abbr. that often precedes a colon : ATTN
24
Agrippina's slayer : NERO
25
Tan and others : AMYS
27
Vaulted room : APSE
28
Word before face or heart : LOSE
29
Head honcho : PREXY
31
In conflict with, with "of" : AFOUL
34
Relatives of rulers : TAPELINES
35
Almond : ECRU
36
Denials : NOES
37
Triptik abbrs. : RTES
38
Berkshire response : OINK
39
Jolly Roger crewman : SMEE
42
Meany of literature : OWEN
46
Be plucky? : TWEEZE
47
Hardly the assertive type : YESMAN
49
Buck Rogers's ladylove ___ Deering : WILMA
50
Dishonest sort : SNEAK
52
Hit alternative : MISS
54
They end in Septembre : ETES
56
Bash : FETE
57
___ bag : TOTE
58
Lou's "La Bamba" co-star : ESAI
59
Analytic psychology founder : JUNG
60
Lincoln, e.g. : CAR
61
Day ___ : ONE
62
Smashed : LIT

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

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