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New York Times, Monday, November 17, 1997

Author:
Holden Baker
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Holden Baker

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQWXYZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Baker. Monday freshness: 97%
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© 1997, The New York Times11/17/97 ( No. 17,541 )
Across
1
Walk, trot or canter : GAIT
5
Cheese served with crackers : BRIE
9
Cavort : ROMP
13
Speak without notes : ADLIB
15
Loaf about : LOLL
16
Race track : OVAL
17
Girl in a children's story : GOLDILOCKS
19
Dried up : SERE
20
Go on and off, as a traffic light : BLINK
21
Spain and Portugal : IBERIA
23
Polluted : DEFILED
26
Having round protuberances : KNOBBED
27
Hammed it up : EMOTED
28
Irish accent : BROGUE
29
Foremost's partner : FIRST
30
Try, as a case : HEAR
31
Go out with : DATE
34
Liturgical vestment : ALB
35
Mocked : SCOFFED
38
Clear (of) : RID
39
Shirts for golfers? : TEES
41
Opposite of include : OMIT
42
Mellowing, as cheese : AGING
44
Long-legged shorebird : AVOCET
46
90's music or fashion : GRUNGE
47
These can be winning or losing : STREAKS
49
Scarlet bird : TANAGER
50
Readies, as a pool cue : CHALKS
51
Harold who wrote "Stormy Weather" : ARLEN
52
Harangue : RANT
53
Worse than awful : UNBEARABLE
58
Fairy tale's opening word : ONCE
59
They crisscross Paris : RUES
60
Grafting shoot : SCION
61
Bambi and kin : DEER
62
They may be loose or split : ENDS
63
Burden : ONUS
Down
1
Joke : GAG
2
Commotion : ADO
3
State west of Ind. : ILL
4
Choice morsels : TIDBITS
5
Flaxen-haired : BLOND
6
Boulder : ROCK
7
Variety : ILK
8
Hamlet's home : ELSINORE
9
Citizen Kane's last word : ROSEBUD
10
Domineering : OVERBEARING
11
Nobelist Curie : MARIE
12
Beg : PLEAD
14
Military lodgings : BILLETS
18
Stretched the truth, so to speak : LIED
22
Peat locale : BOG
23
Trim, as a roast : DEFAT
24
Author Zola : EMILE
25
Restraint : FORBEARANCE
26
Velveeta maker : KRAFT
28
Comport with : BEFIT
30
Development developments : HOMES
32
Touch of color : TINGE
33
Landscaping tool : EDGER
36
Overconfident : COCKSURE
37
Sock menders : DARNERS
40
More slender and graceful : SVELTER
43
Wild llama : GUANACO
45
Acorn tree : OAK
46
Joyous celebration : GALA
47
Seafood order : SCROD
48
Macbeth, for one : THANE
49
Lady's keepsake to a soldier, once : TRESS
51
Not up yet : ABED
54
Convent dweller : NUN
55
Storage container : BIN
56
Costello or Grant : LOU
57
Printer's widths : ENS

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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