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New York Times, Thursday, March 27, 1997

Author:
Alex Vaughn
Editor:
Will Shortz
25-Across : Poolroom aid
TotalDebutLatest
33/9/19951/10/2002
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ScrabDebutFresh
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Alex Vaughn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Vaughn. Thursday freshness: 57%
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© 1997, The New York Times3/27/97 ( No. 17,306 )
Across
1
Make silly : BESOT
6
Undergoes : HAS
9
Out of cards in a suit : VOID
13
Peter ___ Tchaikovsky : ILICH
14
Common-sense : SANE
15
River through Aragon : EBRO
16
Ballgoer : BELLE
17
Puling : WHININESS
19
Happy spymaster? : GEORGESMILEY
21
Heartfelt : SINCERE
22
Record-owning : ALLTIME
25
Poolroom aid : RACK
26
"And thereby hangs ___" : ATALE
28
A party to : INON
29
Kind of beer : ICE
30
Interpretation : SPIN
31
Summoned : PAGED
32
Happy Wagner hero? : LOHENGRIN
35
Trekkie idol : NIMOY
38
Province : AREA
39
Subject of academic study : ISM
42
Viking deity : ODIN
43
Hodgepodge : SALAD
45
___ spumante : ASTI
46
Certain riding horses : MORGANS
48
Like many gardens : MULCHED
50
Happy ex-Mayor of New York? : ABRAHAMBEAME
52
Play backup for : ACCOMPANY
54
Make fit : ADAPT
56
"Damn Yankees" vamp : LOLA
57
Plunked items : UKES
58
Eugene who wrote "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" : FIELD
59
58-Across, e.g. : POET
60
Minster seat : PEW
61
Business concern : SALES
Down
1
Dribble guard : BIB
2
Like a Thomas Gray work : ELEGIAC
3
Schoolmaster's order : SILENCE
4
Word of the hour? : OCLOCK
5
Yonder : THERE
6
Doubter's outbursts : HAHS
7
Member of a very old kingdom : ANIMAL
8
Dotty, perhaps : SENILE
9
Antonio or Bassanio, e.g. : VENETIAN
10
Compliant : OBEYING
11
Investigator's employer: Abbr. : IRS
12
Hairstyles : DOS
14
Hon : SWEETIE
18
Inadequately : ILL
20
Boardroom easel display : GRAPH
21
___ Lanka : SRI
23
Miney follower : MOE
24
Omega : END
27
Year's record : ANNAL
30
Modern ink source : SOY
31
Singer Zadora : PIA
32
Item aboard a merchant ship : LONGBOAT
33
Awards for Sheryl Crow : GRAMMYS
34
Overhaul a soundtrack : REDUB
35
Jean, for one : NOM
36
Witness's reply : IDO
37
Wonderwork : MIRACLE
39
Pequod hand : ISHMAEL
40
Bell site : STEEPLE
41
Prefix with life or wife : MID
43
Grab : SNAPUP
44
Tremulous : ASHAKE
45
Park in Maine : ACADIA
47
Issue materiel : ARM
49
Toronto Maple ___ : LEAFS
51
Resurgently : ANEW
52
Swiss eminence : ALP
53
Pigeon sound : COO
55
Kingdome scores, for short : TDS

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

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