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New York Times, Thursday, May 20, 1999

Author:
Zack Butler
Editor:
Will Shortz
52-Across : Stage, as a historical drama
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Zack Butler

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JKQZ} Spans: 1 Grid has repeated answers. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Butler. Thursday freshness: 31%
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© 1999, The New York Times5/20/99 ( No. 18,090 )
Across
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BA or AF plane : SST
4
Better : FINER
9
Play for time : STALL
14
Gobbled up : ATE
15
Love, Neapolitan-style : AMORE
16
Charged : IONIC
17
Event where the twist was done : HOP
18
Start of a quote by Rep. Mo Udall, 1990, regarding the Presidency : IFNOMINATED
20
Quote, part 2 : IWILL
22
Ready for action : POISED
23
Kids' book character Amelia ___ : BEDELIA
25
The first X? : TIC
26
Trail : LAG
29
Gets warmer, perhaps : NEARS
31
Elvis's birthplace : TUPELO
33
Class with dissections: Abbr. : ANAT
36
Transmission component : GEAR
38
Quote, part 3 : RUNTO
39
Quote, part 4 : MEXICOIFELECTED
42
Quote, part 5 : IWILL
43
Mother of Apollo : LETO
44
Center : CORE
45
Certain contracts : LEASES
47
Kind of bar : SUSHI
49
Certain addition : ELL
50
"Eureka!" : AHA
52
Stage, as a historical drama : REENACT
56
Kind of band : ONEMAN
58
Quote, part 6 : FIGHT
59
End of the quote : EXTRADITION
63
W.C. : LOO
64
Leonardo da ___ : VINCI
65
Feel : SENSE
66
Disputed psych. phenomenon : ESP
67
Altair or Sirius, astronomically speaking : ASTAR
68
Singer Bob : SEGER
69
"Absolutely!" : YES
Down
1
Indian term of respect : SAHIB
2
Vermont resort : STOWE
3
Lukewarm : TEPID
4
Silken fabric : FAILLE
5
Org. much in economic news : IMF
6
One of a kind : NONPAREIL
7
Switch ending : EROO
8
Send in : REMIT
9
Relaxing job : SINECURE
10
Woodland creature : TOAD
11
Tunnel builder : ANT
12
Golf ball position : LIE
13
Digital watch feature: Abbr. : LCD
19
"Who ___?" : ISIT
21
Soup ingredients : LENTILS
24
Enemy of the Moor : IAGO
26
Slower than adagio : LENTO
27
Rehem : ALTER
28
Former Philadelphia Mayor Wilson : GOODE
30
Items with dials : SAFES
32
"Turandot" composer : PUCCINI
33
See 51-Down : AMILE
34
Banister's end : NEWEL
35
Perpendicular to radial : AXIAL
37
Backtracking : RETURNING
40
Kind of act passed in 1970 : CLEANAIR
41
Fall (to) : LOSE
46
Remove : SHED
48
Big name in magazine publishing : HEFNER
51
Equivalent of 33-Down? : AMISS
53
"Gang aft ___": Burns : AGLEY
54
Selected : CHOSE
55
Pseudo-convertibles : TTOPS
56
A whale of a menace : ORCA
57
Fit to ___ : ATEE
59
One of the Gabors : EVA
60
Greek letters : XIS
61
Atlanta-based station : TNT
62
Sugar suffix : OSE

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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