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New York Times, Friday, May 10, 1996

Author:
M. Gaffney
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Across : Like many starlets
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
587/24/19949/6/20001
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1401615157
ScrabDebutFresh
1.6152461%
Matt Gaffney

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {FJKQZ} This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Gaffney. Friday freshness: 14%
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© 1996, The New York Times5/10/96 ( No. 16,985 )
Across
1
Some : ABIT
5
Briefing site : WHITEHOUSE
15
Famous 25-Down : TITO
16
1992 resort opening : EURODISNEY
17
Pearl Buck heroine : OLAN
18
Calming words : THERETHERE
19
Even : NOLESS
21
Spy novelist Deighton : LEN
22
Ancient greetings : AVES
23
Are : EXIST
24
Hardly respectful : SASSY
26
U2 producer Brian : ENO
27
___passim (common footnote) : SIC
28
Frequented spot : HAUNT
30
Kind of nerve : ULNAR
32
Did some editing : DELED
33
Tevye's wife in "Fiddler on the Roof" : GOLDE
34
Immune system members : TCELLS
36
Aloha State Senator : INOUYE
38
Police drama climax : CHASE
39
Lock : TRESS
40
Well-preserved leader : LENIN
41
Lurk : PROWL
42
Ex-employer of Aldrich Ames : CIA
45
Ledger abbr. : AMT
46
Pale : ASHEN
48
___friends : AMONG
50
Angling need : REEL
52
Suffers from : HAS
53
Like many starlets : SVELTE
54
Utopian : IDEALISTIC
57
Subject, usually : NOUN
58
Noted curfew breaker : CINDERELLA
59
Alcott's Jo, for one : AUNT
60
Fat city : EASYSTREET
61
So very : TRES
Down
1
Makes amends : ATONES
2
1985 Neil Simon play setting : BILOXI
3
Type type : ITALIC
4
Mutes, with "down" : TONES
5
Dampens : WETS
6
"Whazzat?" : HUH
7
Whence the Kennedys : IRELAND
8
How some things are laid : TOREST
9
Perfect spots : EDENS
10
Success : HIT
11
Part of the Dept. of Labor : OSHA
12
Without balance : UNEVENLY
13
Courtyard entertainment : SERENADE
14
Dump, e.g. : EYESORE
20
South Atlantic island : STHELENA
24
Pleads : SUES
25
Nationality beginning 1929 : YUGOSLAV
29
Exclusively : ALL
31
Brock and Ferrigno : LOUS
32
First name in 50's TV : DESI
34
Often-vilified group : THEMEDIA
35
Rec centers : CANTEENS
36
Press : IRON
37
Powerful advertising word : NEW
38
Oscar-winning Jodie Foster role : CLARICE
39
Planking support : TRESTLE
41
Enterprise weapon : PHASER
42
English complexion : COLOUR
43
Like good pianos : INTUNE
44
42-Across workers : AGENTS
47
Tee, e.g. : SHIRT
49
___work : MENAT
51
Kenny Rogers #1 song : LADY
53
Ella Fitzgerald forte : SCAT
55
Late Secretary Aspin : LES
56
___ de Noirmoutier, France : ILE

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

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