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New York Times, Friday, August 29, 1997

Author:
Mark Diehl
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Sticking spot?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
7711/11/19841/22/20233
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3214720373
RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
31.57592888%
Mark Diehl

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 18 for Mr. Diehl. Friday freshness: 3%
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© 1997, The New York Times8/29/97 ( No. 17,461 )
Across
1
Pursuing : AFTER
6
Part of a Mideast name : IBN
9
Bibliophile's suffix : ANA
12
Truman biographer ___ Miller : MERLE
13
Atomic bits : NEUTRONS
16
Start of a quip : ADAMDIDNTHAVETO
19
Blackmore heroine : DOONE
20
Sticking spot? : RIB
21
Egoiste's concern : MOI
22
Event where one stands for a spell : BEE
24
Actress Dickinson : ANGIE
26
Suffix with scan : SION
27
Quip, part 2 : LISTENTOEVETALK
31
MASH procedure : TRIAGE
32
Lend ___ (pay attention) : ANEAR
33
Liza's mentor, to Liza : ENRY
34
Telecommunications letters : ATT
35
Obie-winning dramatist David : RABE
38
1982 Michener epic : SPACE
40
Out of focus : BLURRY
42
Quip, part 3 : ABOUTTHEHUSBAND
46
Gives the heave-ho : CANS
47
Quilt stuffing : EIDER
48
"Help!" : SOS
49
They make contact in "Contact" : ETS
50
Professional runner? : POL
51
Foreign heads of state : EMIRS
54
End of the quip : SHECOULDHAVEHAD
59
Latin extension : ETCETERA
60
Belittle : ABASE
61
Brood : SIT
62
London-to-Lisbon dir. : SSW
63
Kind of star : NATAL
Down
1
Grp. with a caduceus : AMA
2
Eliot Ness, e.g. : FED
3
Swaps at a car lot : TRADESIN
4
One who's tickled : ELMO
5
Start again from scratch : REDO
6
Move over a bit : INDENT
7
Big ___ : BEN
8
Fuel for the body : NUTRIENT
9
Desert mount : ARAB
10
Veterans Day mo. : NOV
11
Tiredness : ANEMIA
14
Cop : THIEVE
15
Bird decoy : STOOL
17
Without substance : INANE
18
It comes from a pen : OINK
22
Deli order : BLT
23
Where hurling originated : EIRE
25
Like Mitch Miller, e.g. : GOATEED
26
Horror novelist Peter : STRAUB
28
St. Paul's birthplace : TARSUS
29
Memphis setting : EGYPT
30
British peers : EARLS
34
Not so well-heeled person? : ACHILLES
36
Pentagon big : BRASSHAT
37
Cubist Rubik : ERNO
39
Patronized an inn : ATEOUT
40
Part of W.W. II's Pacific theater : BURMA
41
Broncos run for them: Abbr. : YDS
42
Super-duper : ACES
43
Clean up : BATHE
44
Initiations : ONSETS
45
Bray : HEEHAW
50
"Painter of the soul": D'Israeli : POET
52
Nobelist Pavlov : IVAN
53
Singer McEntire : REBA
55
Third-century date : CCI
56
1-Down members : DRS
57
___ rule : ASA
58
State on the Atl. : DEL

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

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