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New York Times, Saturday, July 12, 1997

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
57-Across : Dark, on Broadway
TotalDebutLatest
1821/12/197810/27/2024
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.534304631%
Richard Silvestri

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 37 Missing: {GHJQXZ} This is puzzle # 61 for Mr. Silvestri. Saturday freshness: 23%
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© 1997, The New York Times7/12/97 ( No. 17,413 )
Across
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Emergency treatment : FIRSTAID
9
Products of planning : LISTS
14
Kind of correspondence : ONETOONE
15
Authors : PENMEN
16
Key locale? : RAMPARTS
17
City on Lake Michigan : RACINE
18
Dance lesson : STEP
19
Maxwell Perkins, for a famous example : EDITOR
20
Horn sound : TANTARA
23
Watch mechanism : DETENT
24
Southeastern salamander : MUDEEL
25
Empty : INANE
27
"Damn Yankees" composer : ADLER
28
Montana tribe : CROW
29
Vegas opening : LAS
32
Not so fine : COARSER
34
Clear : UNBLOCK
37
Asian honorific : SRI
38
Suburban sight : LAWN
40
Milk: Prefix : LACTI
41
Algae eater : AMEBA
43
Trust : BANKON
44
It might make your hair stand on end : STATIC
47
Scornful sound : SNICKER
49
Scout's discovery, maybe : TALENT
50
Wind indicator : SOCK
51
Flattened at the poles : OBLATE
52
Important prefix : AREACODE
57
Dark, on Broadway : CLOSED
58
New partner : IMPROVED
59
Attuned : KEYED
60
Definitive statement : LASTWORD
Down
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Backing : FOR
2
Concert finale : INA
3
"The One I Love" group : REM
4
Indy 500 letters : STP
5
They speak and drink : TOASTERS
6
Of a blood line : AORTAL
7
Lay low? : INTER
8
Give up : DESPAIR
9
Spiritless : LEADEN
10
Stir up : INCITE
11
Cuff : SMITE
12
Part of a joint : TENON
13
Comic strip canine : SNERT
15
Early : PREDAWN
20
Home style : TUDOR
21
Name in 50's politics : ADLAI
22
Poetic adverb : NEER
24
Brolly alternatives : MACS
26
Common thing? : NOUN
28
Callaloo ingredient : CRAB
29
"The Gauntlet" actress, 1977 : LOCKE
30
Ford or Hudson : ACTOR
31
Excoriate : SKIN
33
Kind of official : ELECTED
35
Magic : BLACKART
36
Like young Abe Lincoln : LANK
39
Christmas drink : WASSAIL
41
Military command : ATEASE
42
Made cents : MINTED
43
They have pull : BICEPS
44
Standard : STOCK
45
Put on ice : TABLE
46
Solder, e.g. : ALLOY
48
Marilyn, originally : NORMA
53
Bully : COW
54
Ab ___ (from the beginning) : OVO
55
Article written by Freud : DER
56
Roush of baseball fame : EDD

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

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