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New York Times, Friday, May 6, 1994

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
59-Across : Way with words?
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 34 Missing: {GKQWZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 22 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 19%
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© 1994, The New York Times5/6/94 ( No. 16,250 )
Across
1
Book of the Apocrypha : JUDITH
7
Apse setting : BASILICA
15
Catchall phrase : ETALIA
16
Esthete : ARTLOVER
17
Uncompromising : STRICT
18
Swain song : SERENADE
19
Doctrinal holding : TENET
20
French assembly : SENAT
21
Teachers' grp. : NEA
22
They have namesakes: Abbr. : SRS
23
Grammy-winning country group : ALABAMA
25
Results of conks : COMAS
26
Farm building : SILO
30
Guarding mobilely : ONPATROL
34
Its fruit is monkey bread : BAOBAB
36
It's played at the 7-Down : NATIONALPASTIME
38
Rose's home : TRALEE
39
Without concern for the future : DAYTODAY
40
Baron in "Der Rosenkavalier" : OCHS
41
Wistful one : PINER
42
Epcot neighbor : ORLANDO
44
Computer add-on? : ESE
47
G. & S. princess : IDA
50
Embarrass : SHAME
51
Strauss's "Ariadne auf ___" : NAXOS
53
Transportation Secretary Pena : FEDERICO
55
Theater's Willy, Linda, Happy and Biff : LOMANS
56
St. Louis arch designer : SAARINEN
57
Charlotte ___, Virgin Islands : AMALIE
58
Printed, as a quote : ONRECORD
59
Way with words? : SYNTAX
Down
1
One-liners : JESTS
2
Complete : UTTER
3
Fills in a hole : DARNS
4
Tennis hothead : ILIE
5
XXX activity : TICTACTOE
6
Derby : HAT
7
36-Across's site : BASEBALLDIAMOND
8
Circus locales : ARENAS
9
Sportscaster Hank : STRAM
10
"___ song go..." : ILETA
11
Mr. Chaney : LON
12
A Karamazov : IVAN
13
Part with : CEDE
14
Purlieu : AREA
20
Southernmost U.S. point : SAMOA
24
Michaels of "Saturday Night Live" : LORNE
26
___ speak (as it were) : SOTO
27
Footnote abbr. : IBID
28
Literally, superior one : LAMA
29
Be loyal to : OBEY
30
Knowing : ONTO
31
Pusher's nemesis : NARC
32
Chief god of Memphis : PTAH
33
Afflicts : AILS
34
Howled : BAYED
35
Copernican concern : ASTRONOMY
37
Lustrous velvet : PANNE
41
Kind of mining : PLACER
42
Umpire for the duel in "Hamlet" : OSRIC
43
Zoo critter : RHINO
44
Rate highly : EXALT
45
Artist Delaunay : SONIA
46
Car of the 20's : ESSEX
47
Conditional words : IFSO
48
College leader : DEAN
49
Month after Shevat : ADAR
52
"___ for All Seasons" : AMAN
54
Prior to : ERE
55
Scale notes : LAS

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

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