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New York Times, Saturday, October 3, 1998

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
21-Down : Kind of therapy
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 35 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 89 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 32%
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© 1998, The New York Times10/3/98 ( No. 17,861 )
Across
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Parades : SHOWSOFF
9
Percussion instruments : ANVILS
15
Review in detail : HASHOVER
16
Sacred : ICONIC
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With savvy : ASTUTELY
18
Cavalry member : LANCER
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Way off : RAMP
20
Claw : NIPPER
22
Horatian work : ODE
23
Grp. hosting an open house : PTA
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Riot : CARD
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Sheet : FLOE
26
Lords : SIRS
28
Compacter than compact : MINI
29
Kind of costume : CLOWN
30
Result of a wallop : TKO
31
1980 Diana Ross hit : ITSMYTURN
33
A substitute? : ALFA
35
Tops : AONE
36
Using fiscal prudence : THRIFTILY
39
Cowboys' grp. : NFC
42
Merino, for one : BREED
43
___ many words : INSO
44
French chalk : TALC
46
Construed : READ
47
Anjou alternative : BOSC
48
"Angie" actor, 1994 : REA
49
Vex, with "at" : EAT
50
Indication of permanence : TENURE
52
Seaweed product : AGAR
53
Not so good physically : ACHIER
55
Not to mention : LETALONE
57
Like bons mots : CLEVER
58
Borders on the beach? : TANLINES
59
Grounds for excommunication : HERESY
60
Dabbles (in) : SMATTERS
Down
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Experts : SHARPS
2
Dives into a project : HASATIT
3
European coin until 1990 : OSTMARK
4
Paste : WHUP
5
Lush : SOT
6
Dutch ___ : OVEN
7
Compliment : FELICITATION
8
Skillets : FRYPANS
9
Distressed : AILED
10
Tenn. neighbor : NCAR
11
Part of a noble's name : VON
12
Like almost all TV shows nowadays : INCOLOR
13
Go to bed, say : LIEDOWN
14
Show for critics : SCREEN
21
Kind of therapy : PRIMALSCREAM
25
Smooth : FLUENT
27
Became exalted : SOARED
28
Annoy : MIFF
29
Bill of lading abbr. : CTN
32
Dork : YOYO
34
Cover : LID
36
Goo : TREACLE
37
Low-growing shrub : HEATHER
38
Schoolyard taunts : INSULTS
40
Beyond repair : FARGONE
41
Having fewer errors, as copy : CLEANER
42
Security error : BREACH
45
Treat lovingly : CARESS
47
Tart ingredient : BERRY
50
Elevators, of a sort : TEES
51
"Empedocles on ___" (Arnold poem) : ETNA
52
Settled (on) : ALIT
54
Suffix with correct : IVE
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Ft. above land : ALT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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