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New York Times, Friday, June 5, 1998

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Across : 1898 ship in the news
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {QZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 75 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 73%
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© 1998, The New York Times6/5/98 ( No. 17,741 )
Across
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"Please be ___" : SEATED
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Understandable : COHERENT
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Plenary : ENTIRE
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Start of Barney's theme song : ILOVEYOU
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Beating : ATHROB
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Pre-meltdown signal, maybe : REDALERT
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Part of the food pyramid : BREADS
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"Misery" star : CAAN
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Rouge or noir, e.g. : BET
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"Rawhide" singer : LAINE
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Native of Kirkuk : KURD
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River crossed in the Korean War : YALU
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Child-rearer's comment? : UPSADAISY
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Swindle : MULCT
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Planner's fig. : EST
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Name, either good or bad : REP
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Ring responses? : HELLOS
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Talus : ANKLEBONE
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James and Jackson : JESSES
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Have, as a fever : RUN
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Touch of Jack Frost : NIP
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Just vegetate : EXIST
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Cape Dutch : AFRIKAANS
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Give ___ on the back : APAT
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Mate's call : AHOY
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The unmarried woman in "An Unmarried Woman" : ERICA
48
Escape : LAM
49
Collection agent's target : OWER
50
Rough voice, metaphorically : GRAVEL
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Low-grade, as conflagrations go : ONEALARM
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Straight : UNBENT
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1898 ship in the news : USSMAINE
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Oder-___ Line (German-Polish border) : NEISSE
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Take care of : SEEAFTER
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Roofing specialist : SLATER
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Aquamarine : SEABLUE
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Gets in a sting : ENTRAPS
3
Evangelist's target : ATHEIST
4
European capital : TIRANA
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Gradually disappeared : ERODED
6
Ball girls? : DEBS
7
Seal, e.g. : CIRCUSPERFORMER
8
Mrs. of legend : OLEARY
9
Surfer wannabe : HODAD
10
Hunter of fiction : EVAN
11
Bapt. or Episc. : REL
12
Socket filler : EYEBALL
13
Razor brand : NORELCO
14
Chiding remarks : TUTTUTS
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German canal city : KIEL
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Kind of tide : YULE
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Safe places : ARKS
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Husbands : MEN
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Daughter of Hägar the Horrible : HONI
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Second: Abbr. : ASST
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ABC, e.g. : NET
33
Repress in memory : BURY
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Green, in a way : JEALOUS
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Great Plains, e.g. : EXPANSE
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Popular cat : SIAMESE
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Least worldly : NAIVEST
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More than displease : INCENSE
40
Church book : PSALTER
42
Pipe-smoking actor Brian : AHERNE
43
Part of an ear : KERNEL
44
Home of the descendants of Ishmael : ARABIA
46
Anticipate : AWAIT
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Minnesota's St. ___ College : OLAF
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Aims (for) : GUNS
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Journal publisher, for short : AMA

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

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