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New York Times, Monday, August 31, 1998

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Vulgarity
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 42 Missing: {FQV} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Quigley. Monday freshness: 46%
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© 1998, The New York Times8/31/98 ( No. 17,828 )
Across
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Moistureless : ARID
5
Feeling for the unfortunate : PITY
9
Onetime late-night host Jack : PAAR
13
Provide with a new soundtrack : REDUB
15
Nabisco favorite : OREO
16
Wheel rod : AXLE
17
Ice cream flavor #1 : COOKIESANDCREAM
20
Vulgarity : SLEAZE
21
___ Lee cakes : SARA
22
Neither masc. nor fem. : NEUT
24
"Too many cooks spoil the broth," e.g. : ADAGE
28
Ice cream flavor #2 : BLACKRASPBERRY
33
Model airplane wood : BALSA
34
Team at Shea : METS
35
Massachusetts' Cape ___ : COD
36
Ad-___ (improvises) : LIBS
37
Mocks : JAPES
39
Sewing case : ETUI
40
Brew : ALE
41
Grab hold of : TAKE
42
$1.09 a dozen, say : PRICE
43
Ice cream flavor #3 : HEATHBARCRUNCH
47
Mister, in México : SENOR
48
Argue (with) : SPAR
49
Faddish 90's collectibles : POGS
52
Cause for a blessing? : SNEEZE
56
Ice cream flavor #4 : PEPPERMINTSTICK
61
Merle Haggard's "___ From Muskogee" : OKIE
62
G.M. or MG product : AUTO
63
Safe investment, informally : TNOTE
64
Gardener's problem : WEED
65
Keep, as cargo : STOW
66
Any day now : ANON
Down
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Comet's path : ARC
2
20's-30's cars : REOS
3
Someone who's looked up to : IDOL
4
North Carolina school : DUKE
5
Charlatan : POSEUR
6
Lyricist Gershwin : IRA
7
Change for a twenty : TENS
8
"Star Wars" sage : YODA
9
Independence Day event : PARADE
10
Pink-slip : AXE
11
Pie ___ mode : ALA
12
Rock group with the 1994 #1 album "Monster" : REM
14
Environmental activist Jagger : BIANCA
18
Book before Daniel: Abbr. : EZEK
19
Shelled critters : CRABS
23
Fools (with) : TAMPERS
25
Frigid : ARCTIC
26
Chronic complainer : GROUCH
27
Singer Gormé : EYDIE
28
Person who holds property in trust : BAILEE
29
Popular catalogue company : LLBEAN
30
Buffoon : ASS
31
"Do you get it?" : SEE
32
A TD is worth 6 of these : PTS
33
Down-in-the-dumps feeling, with "the" : BLAHS
37
Boxer's punch : JAB
38
Wanted poster abbr. : AKA
39
Directional suffix : ERN
41
Spasm of pain : THROE
42
Least tainted : PUREST
44
Made a better offer than : TOPPED
45
"Strangers and Brothers" novelist : CPSNOW
46
Throw a tantrum : RANT
50
Mardi ___ : GRAS
51
Porn : SMUT
53
Sicilian spouter : ETNA
54
Jerusalem's Mount ___ : ZION
55
Opposite of endo- : ECTO
56
Comic book punch sound : POW
57
Make (out) : EKE
58
Item for Little Jack Horner : PIE
59
Judge Lance ___ : ITO
60
Barbie's beau : KEN

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

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