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New York Times, Saturday, May 30, 1998

Author:
Chuck Deodene
Editor:
Will Shortz
57-Across : Pair of socks?
TotalDebutLatest
4211/16/19942/26/2021
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
02398128
CircleScrabDebutFresh
31.5824265%
Chuck Deodene

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {FJQX} This is puzzle # 22 for Mr. Deodene. Saturday freshness: 22%
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© 1998, The New York Times5/30/98 ( No. 17,735 )
Across
1
Sub sinker : ASHCAN
7
Current strength : AMPERAGE
15
Gather, as wheat : SHEAVE
16
Personalized : TAILORED
17
Hit the norm, at Inverness : PARRED
18
Little troopers : ARMYANTS
19
Bower : ARBOR
20
Designer Schiaparelli : ELSA
21
Broad : DAME
22
With no chronological lapse : REALTIME
24
Eye hue : HAZEL
25
Punching item : AWL
26
Blubber : SOB
27
Rafts : ALOT
29
Gangster pieces : GATS
31
Traveler's itch : WANDERLUST
36
1934 Chemistry Nobelist : UREY
37
"Stand ___!" : ASIDE
38
Sparkling wine source : ASTI
39
Terror of the deep : SEAMONSTER
41
Attempt : SHOT
42
Toiling away : BUSY
43
Nintendo's Super ___ : NES
45
Pipe type : ELL
46
Noted Berkshire heath : ASCOT
49
Surgeon's sheepskin : MDDEGREE
51
Tattle : TELL
52
Roman music halls : ODEA
54
Toward the back : AREAR
55
1868 Dostoyevsky novel : THEIDIOT
57
Pair of socks? : ONETWO
58
Somehow : INASENSE
59
Compound used in perfume manufacture : ACETAL
60
Coupe producer : CARMAKER
61
Wee-hours trip : REDEYE
Down
1
Shoots in the garden : ASPARAGUS
2
Sample applications : SHAREWARE
3
Chamomile drink : HERBALTEA
4
Noel : CAROL
5
Turns away : AVERTS
6
Nancy Drew's beau : NED
7
"___ of Cinderella" (1994 musical) : ATALE
8
Sojourner's resting place : MARS
9
Sheet cotton : PIMA
10
Seat of White Pine County, Nev. : ELY
11
A.A.A. offering : ROADATLAS
12
Ball mate : ARNAZ
13
"See my point?" : GETME
14
Ford scion : EDSEL
20
Part of a Washington row : EMBASSY
23
Amana folk : IOWANS
24
TV adjustment: Abbr. : HOR
27
Back-of-the-book list : ADDENDA
28
Acted like a creep, in a way : LEERED
30
Use of metaphors : SYMBOLISM
32
Postseason contest, for short : NIT
33
Old-style theater guide : USHERETTE
34
Skedaddled : STOLEAWAY
35
Biggest part, usually : TITLEROLE
40
Revealed : OUT
44
It may raise spirits : SEANCE
46
Loft : ATTIC
47
___ knot, used in rug weaving : SEHNA
48
Defibrillator's yell : CLEAR
49
Gauge : METER
50
Love of dough : GREED
52
Sow sound : OINK
53
2 mg, say : DOSE
56
Traffic-stopping org. : DEA
57
Crewman : OAR

Answer summary:
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