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New York Times, Saturday, June 21, 1997

Author:
Gerald R. Ferguson
Editor:
Will Shortz
19-Across : "Touch of Evil" director, 1958
TotalDebutLatest
225/28/19943/25/2002
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Gerald R. Ferguson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JKQZ} This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Ferguson. Saturday freshness: 9%
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© 1997, The New York Times6/21/97 ( No. 17,392 )
Across
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Gives everything away : BLABS
6
Without a clue : ATWITSEND
15
Charge : RUNAT
16
Petty crook : CHISELLER
17
Green card candidate, maybe : EXILE
18
Whoppers : TALLTALES
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"Touch of Evil" director, 1958 : WELLES
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Like some stock prices : NEARPAR
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Fish relish : ALEC
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Singer Sumac : YMA
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Makes well-liked : ENDEARS
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Medicinal plant : IPECAC
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Herbal do-all : ALOE
34
Watkins Glen, e.g. : RACECOURSE
36
Portions : METES
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P-Q, maybe: Abbr. : VOL
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Roto-Rooter alternative : DRANO
40
Wildly exaggerated, as a performance : OVERTHETOP
43
Little bills : ONES
44
Biblical short cut : REDSEA
45
Road menace : SPEEDER
47
Time in the classifieds : EVE
49
One of the Muppets : ELMO
50
Basketball forwards, e.g. : LEAPERS
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Give details : FILLIN
58
Bees do it: Var. : POLLENATE
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Bit of a waltz : GLIDE
61
Path adornments? : PRIMROSES
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Philippine president Fidel : RAMOS
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Fiascos : DISASTERS
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Celebrated Surrealist : ERNST
Down
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Ale or coffee : BREW
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Sumptuousness : LUXE
3
Dye-producing shrub : ANIL
4
Crooners : BALLADEERS
5
Sociologist Shelby : STEELE
6
Pretense : ACT
7
Part of a comparison : THAN
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Book publisher John : WILEY
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Kind of calendar : ISLAMIC
10
Almost any mammal : TETRAPOD
11
Sharp rebuke : SLAP
12
Poet ___ Wheeler Wilcox : ELLA
13
Poet's contraction : NEER
14
Pepper and others : DRS
20
Brand : SEAR
23
Want : CRAVE
25
Foreign exchange student, maybe : ELEVE
26
Great : NOTED
27
Carlyle's kinfolk : SCOTS
29
International monetary unit : EURODOLLAR
30
Stretch : CRANE
31
Seven-time Emmy winner : ASNER
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Bus. bigwigs : CEOS
33
Don Juan's emotion : AMOR
35
Abscond : ELOPE
37
Some dye workers : STEEPERS
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Indigent : HAVENOT
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Lucre : PELF
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Einstein, e.g. : EMIGRE
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Tape deck option : ERASE
50
Singer of the screen : LORI
51
"___ Coming" (1969 hit) : ELIS
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Book of the Book of Mormon : ALMA
53
Slangy noun suffix : STER
55
Paint : LIMN
56
Important vows : IDOS
57
Love ___ : NEST
58
Mail-order abbr. : PPD
59
Hook shape : ESS

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

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