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New York Times, Saturday, October 11, 1997

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Down : Tough key for pianists
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Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQY} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 35 for Mr. Piscop. Saturday freshness: 45%
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© 1997, The New York Times10/11/97 ( No. 17,504 )
Across
1
For a song : DIRTCHEAP
10
Not listed above : OTHER
15
In need of bleeping : UNAIRABLE
16
TV exec Arledge : ROONE
17
Hole-positioning device : CENTERBIT
18
Supply with fresh troops : REMAN
19
Many lounge combos : TRIOS
20
Cain raiser : EVE
21
San ___ : REMO
22
Directional suffix : ERN
23
A.A.A. recommendation : RTE
24
Bum : BORROW
26
Lose acuity : DOTE
28
Midwest Indians : OSAGES
30
Tea server : URN
31
Patek Philippe competitor : ROLEX
33
Puts in order : NEATENS
35
Like a victim of calumny : SLANDERED
37
Jack Kerouac, e.g. : BEATNIK
39
"I ___ it" : DOUBT
42
Shipping abbr. : FOB
43
Amplified : ONMIKE
45
Scares : COWS
47
"Entertaining Mr. ___" (Orton play) : SLOANE
49
Dietary oil source : COD
50
Book before Esth. : NEH
51
Whisper : HINT
52
Barely get, with "out" : EKE
53
Daytime Emmy actress Rena : SOFER
55
Province west of Madrid : AVILA
57
Make straight : LINEARIZE
59
Puerto ___ : RICAN
60
Responded disrespectfully : SNICKERED
61
Out : PASSE
62
Kitchen gadgets : EGGTIMERS
Down
1
Channeled : DUCTED
2
By mistake : INERROR
3
Met : RANINTO
4
Former leader of the nonaligned movement : TITO
5
Street: Abbr. : CRES
6
Laugh syllable : HAR
7
Campy's field : EBBETS
8
Spirited : ALIVEANDKICKING
9
"Our Gang" pooch : PETE
10
Three-time Hart Trophy winner : ORR
11
It's human : TOERR
12
Great success, so to speak : HOMERUN
13
Makes spoony : ENAMORS
14
Celebrity : RENOWN
23
1987 Steve Martin film : ROXANNE
24
Like a mountain goat : BEARDED
25
Medical prefix : OSTEO
27
Opera heroine who sings "Einsam in trüben Tagen" : ELSA
29
"I hadn't thought of that" : GEE
32
First name in rock : ELTON
34
Cabinet dept. : EDUC
36
Game with matchsticks : NIM
37
Coffee producer : BOLIVIA
38
Much-debated school subject : EBONICS
40
It may be lit on the Fourth : BONFIRE
41
Plucker's need : TWEEZER
42
Tough key for pianists : FSHARP
44
Original "Star Trek" actor : KOENIG
46
Confetti : SHREDS
48
50's ICBM : ATLAS
52
Choice word : ELSE
53
"The Chronicles of Clovis" writer : SAKI
54
Utah city : OREM
56
Hydrocarbon suffix : ANE
58
Outer: Prefix : ECT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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