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New York Times, Saturday, August 8, 1998

Author:
Trip Payne
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : Grieves
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
464/10/19948/3/20211
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1034463133
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
421.5333860%
Trip Payne

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 31 Missing: {FQXZ} This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Payne. Saturday freshness: 64%
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© 1998, The New York Times8/8/98 ( No. 17,805 )
Across
1
Portraitist displayed in Independence Hall : PEALE
6
Atlanta's main drag : PEACHTREE
15
"American Me" star, 1992 : OLMOS
16
Movie with the character Alvy Singer : ANNIEHALL
17
Grieves : WEEPS
18
Old : LONGLIVED
19
Aperture : HOLE
20
Profits : TAKE
21
Charity money-raiser : DRIVE
22
Org. banned from 1960 to 1990 : ANC
23
Bad humorist's question : GETIT
24
Seven-time Emmy winner : ASNER
25
Stopped momentarily : TOOKAREST
27
Arm from overseas : STEN
28
Becomes a name : ARRIVES
29
Computer add-on : ESE
31
Site of a 1598 edict : NANTES
32
Historic place on the Dead Sea : MASADA
37
Vet's memory, perhaps : NAM
39
Forceful : DYNAMIC
40
Prefix with 39-Across : AERO
43
90's band with the hit "I Will Buy You a New Life" : EVERCLEAR
45
Kentucky Derby favorite : JULEP
46
"Crooning" author John Gregory ___ : DUNNE
47
Mo preceder : SLO
48
Take for ___ : ARIDE
49
Rick's love : ILSA
50
Some charts : PIES
51
Fictional hero known as the Man of Bronze : DOCSAVAGE
53
Is slow-paced : PLODS
54
It opened in 1825 : ERIECANAL
55
Kind of knife : BOWIE
56
Common temp work : DATAENTRY
57
Periods of time : SPANS
Down
1
Indian chief also known as Wa-hun-sen-a-cawh : POWHATAN
2
Early actress Duse : ELEONORA
3
Hard red grain : AMELCORN
4
Easy run : LOPE
5
Twisty curve : ESS
6
Roofs of a kind : PALATES
7
Tiny-capped mushrooms : ENOKIS
8
One of TV's Mouseketeers : ANNETTE
9
Smoke : CIG
10
Raised one's spirits, perhaps? : HELDASEANCE
11
Craving : THIRST
12
Stream site : RAVINE
13
Big roll : ELEVEN
14
Like some statesmen : ELDER
20
Mother ___ : TERESA
23
Hounded : GAVENOPEACE
26
Model, originally : KIT
30
Izmir's former name : SMYRNA
33
Girl of song : SAL
34
Billy Sunday's birthplace : AMESIOWA
35
Telephoned headquarters, say : DIALEDIN
36
1 to 57 herein : ACROSSES
38
Third degree of a musical scale : MEDIANT
39
How some places are populated : DENSELY
40
Meteorological event : AURORA
41
Bring to the surface : ELICIT
42
It had a big part in the Bible : REDSEA
44
Common : VULGAR
45
World-weary : JADED
50
Sit (down) : PLOP
52
Lead : VAN
53
Big broadcast inits. : PBS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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