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New York Times, Friday, June 20, 1997

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Across : Spanish playwright Calderon
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JKQXZ} Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. This is puzzle # 64 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 41%
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© 1997, The New York Times6/20/97 ( No. 17,391 )
Across
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A flat's equivalent : GSHARP
7
Fortune teller : ORACLE
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Glacial matter : ICEFALL
15
Violent struggles : THROES
16
Metalsmith's tool : BALLPEEN
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Jazz lover's tag : HEPCAT
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Wrath : IRE
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Herbal drink : SAGETEA
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Big heart? : ACE
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Hawaiian goose : NENE
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Enjoy : SAVOR
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Distress signal : ACHE
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Perceive : GRASP
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Energetic, strong-willed type, supposedly : LEO
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Introduction : PROEM
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Investigators sometimes follow them : PAPERTRAILS
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Spawning ground of Atlantic eels : SARGASSOSEA
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Challenges : RUNSAGAINST
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Rental craft : CANOE
37
Heavy-duty cleanser : LYE
38
Liszt piece : ETUDE
42
Elevation : HILL
43
Spanish playwright Calderon : PEDRO
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Western Samoa's capital : APIA
46
Fiat model : UNO
47
Dreams of Daniel, e.g. : VISIONS
49
Third word in a limerick : WAS
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Change the subject, perhaps : MOVEON
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Kind of ears : ELEPHANT
54
Start of many Latin American place names : PUERTO
55
Glacier Garden city : LUCERNE
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Mason assistant : STREET
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Cater basely : PANDER
Down
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Taunting : GIBING
2
Bogeyman : SCARER
3
Seat of Lewis and Clark County : HELENA
4
Its first pres. was Samuel Gompers : AFL
5
Some corporal punishment : RAPS
6
Court motions : PLEAS
7
Additional : OTHER
8
Moon of Saturn : RHEA
9
"Human Concretion" artist : ARP
10
Classic producer : COCACOLA
11
Percolates, as water : LEACHES
12
Treasure : ESTEEM
14
Leading court figures : LEGALEAGLES
17
Persevere : NEVERSAYDIE
21
Snack item named after the inventor's 6-year-old daughter : TOOTSIEROLL
24
Language of 350 million : ESPANOL
26
Brief solo : ARIETTA
28
Make sentence sense : PARSE
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Like yesterday's news : PASSE
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Golfing initials : PGA
33
California Rep. Dellums : RON
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Heliolater : SUNLOVER
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Stadium disappointment : RAINOUT
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Hardly geniuses : CHUMPS
39
Northbound, on most maps : UPWARD
40
One of the Lennon Sisters : DIANNE
41
A time to dye? : EASTER
43
Wine grape : PINOT
44
Early Ping-Pong score : ONEUP
47
Blackball, e.g. : VOTE
48
Stray home : SPCA
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Before : ERE
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Farm mother : HEN

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

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