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New York Times, Friday, August 30, 1996

Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Will Shortz
56-Across : Decide in advance
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A. J. Santora

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 27 Missing: {JQWXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 217 for Mr. Santora. Friday freshness: 61%
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© 1996, The New York Times8/30/96 ( No. 17,097 )
Across
1
Rush Limbaugh medium : TALKRADIO
10
Kind of artery : ILIAC
15
Everybody : ONEANDALL
16
Headword : LEMMA
17
Riding, in a way : ASTRADDLE
18
Flavor : SAPOR
19
Doll's cry : MAMA
20
Mai ___ : TAI
21
1882 Sardou drama : FEDORA
22
Live : ARE
23
Assertive ones : VOICERS
25
Certain Hill : SAM
26
1976 Olympics star : NADIA
28
Spanish ayes : SISI
29
Yeats's "The Lake ___ of Innisfree" : ISLE
30
Flowery ornamentation : ROSETTES
32
Foundation timber : SILL
33
Disturbances : SCENES
35
Comic Bill and others : COSBYS
37
Asia's Trans ___ Mountains : ALAI
38
Straightforward : TRUTHFUL
42
Nash fellow : LAMA
43
Perfect : HONE
44
"___ cold..." : FEEDA
47
Burt's "The Killers" co-star, 1946 : AVA
48
Measles symptom : REDNESS
50
Nickname : DUB
51
Miner : DIGGER
53
N.T. book : EPH
54
Treat with milk : OREO
55
Florida's ___ National Forest : OCALA
56
Decide in advance : PREINTEND
58
Arduous journey : ILIAD
59
Leave oneself at risk on Wall Street : OVERTRADE
60
Imparts : LENDS
61
Care centers : RESTHOMES
Down
1
Without exception : TOAMAN
2
Cochise player of 50's TV : ANSARA
3
Song standard from 1875 : LETMEDREAMAGAIN
4
Ted Kennedy's eldest : KARA
5
Code material : RNA
6
Supplement : ADDTO
7
Arp was one : DADAIST
8
Backdoor : ILLICIT
9
Spectators' cry : OLE
10
Pianist Von Alpenheim et al. : ILSES
11
Kind of story : LEAD
12
Song standard from 1966, with "The" : IMPOSSIBLEDREAM
13
Without principles : AMORALLY
14
Chewy candy : CARAMELS
21
1969 Economics Nobelist Ragnar : FRISCH
23
Boughpot : VASE
24
Slangy ending : ESE
27
Area colonized by ancient Greeks : IONIA
29
Printing : ISSUE
31
Biblical queen celebrated at Purim : ESTHER
33
Lettuce spray? : SALADOIL
34
Collarbone : CLAVICLE
36
Liquidates, so to speak : OFFS
39
Heater : ROD
40
Demoralize : UNNERVE
41
Places to raise a flap? : TEEPEES
45
Charisma, from the Spanish : DUENDE
46
Habitations : ABODES
48
Auditions : READS
49
Top : SHIRT
52
Like some bags or rags : GLAD
54
Other: Sp. : OTRO
56
___ favor : POR
57
Utmost : NTH

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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