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New York Times, Thursday, May 29, 1997

Author:
Gilbert H. Ludwig
Editor:
Will Shortz
27-Across : Pond dwellers
TotalDebutLatest
185/29/19977/21/2008
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Gilbert H. Ludwig

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Ludwig. Thursday freshness: 82%
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© 1997, The New York Times5/29/97 ( No. 17,369 )
Across
1
Thriving time : BOOM
5
Seed covering : ARIL
9
Make meek, in a way : SHAME
14
Bring down : UNDO
15
Kierkegaard, e.g. : DANE
16
Poolside turban : TOWEL
17
Scene of W.W. I fighting : YSER
18
"Black Beauty" author : ANNASEWELL
20
Mourning : SITTINGSHIVA
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"Keep it up, fella!" : ATTABOY
23
Don't believe it! : MIRAGE
27
Pond dwellers : TEALS
28
Ice ___ : FLOE
30
___ populi : VOX
31
Sighting off the California coast : SEALION
34
Spiffy : NEAT
35
Noone : SINGERPETER
37
Newscaster Paula : ZAHN
39
Relents : EASESUP
40
Prefix with propyl : ISO
41
Screen : SIFT
42
Can't take ___ an answer : NOFOR
46
Play by 21-Down : GHOSTS
48
Film maker? : ACETATE
50
Knight : TITLEDBRITON
53
Slapstick, e.g. : COMICSTYLE
56
Falkirk citizen : SCOT
57
Harry Connick Jr.'s "___ and a Smile" : AWINK
58
Lots of bucks : DEER
59
Some story : TALE
60
Brisk : PERKY
61
Lith. and Azer., once : SSRS
62
Suffix with huck : STER
Down
1
Patronizes : BUYSAT
2
At the scene : ONSITE
3
One-named folk singer : ODETTA
4
Subject for St. Thomas Aquinas : MORTALSIN
5
Hersey's bell town : ADANO
6
Tall and wiry : RANGY
7
Places to overnight : INNS
8
Rachel's sister : LEAH
9
Singer Nicks : STEVIE
10
Author Barbara of "Laughing All the Way" : HOWAR
11
It's inspired : AWE
12
Football Hall-of-Famer Blount : MEL
13
Wing : ELL
19
Writer de Beauvoir et al. : SIMONES
21
See 46-Across : IBSEN
24
Maintain : AVER
25
Former part of Portuguese India : GOA
26
Inside no. : EXT
28
Blue-ribbon : FIRST
29
Unhurried gait : LOPE
32
Unfair employers : AGEISTS
33
Word after over or clover : LEAF
34
Family providers? : NEPOTISTS
35
"Git!" : SHOO
36
Piano pro : TUNER
37
Move to the side : ZIG
38
Soda ___ : ASH
41
Hard to open : STICKY
43
Contributor of big bucks : FATCAT
44
Mr. Chips portrayer, 1969 : OTOOLE
45
Flat dweller : RENTER
47
Perform lousily : STINK
48
Freud contemporary : ADLER
49
Many teamsters : CBERS
51
Former Fords : LTDS
52
They fit in sockets : EYES
53
Tube top : CAP
54
Take credit? : OWE
55
Earth orbiter : MIR

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

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