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New York Times, Saturday, February 1, 1997

Author:
R. H. Burns
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Down : Abraded
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Rand H. Burns

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {JKQVZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Burns. Saturday freshness: 15%
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© 1997, The New York Times2/1/97 ( No. 17,252 )
Across
1
Entertainer whose given names were Wladziu Valentino : LIBERACE
9
Break : ESCAPE
15
Glutton's opposite : ANOREXIC
16
Klink's clink : STALAG
17
Music to ease the second-job blues? : MOONLIGHTSONATA
19
Tempers : ANNEALS
20
Saw again : REDATED
21
Cardinal's insignia : STL
22
They create a sensation : TINGLERS
23
The old man in "The Old Man and the Sea" : SANTIAGO
27
Piston's place: Abbr. : CYL
28
Flap : ADO
29
Temple ___ : ORANGE
31
Touch of acrimony : EDGE
35
Language for the masses : LATIN
37
Small buzzer : BEE
38
Practice : DRILL
39
Bootleggers' bane : TMEN
40
Executorial concern : ESTATE
42
Hero : SUB
43
Spanish replies : SIS
45
Betting option : TRIFECTA
47
Royalty payer : LICENSEE
51
Squirt : TOT
52
Rap sheet list : ALIASES
53
On the line : WAGERED
57
Colonel Sanders at a hen party? : PERSONANONGRATA
59
Sentence shortener : PAROLE
60
Floor decoration : ORIENTAL
61
They're served at Fortnum and Mason : SCONES
62
Cut : DECREASE
Down
1
Shangri-La cleric : LAMA
2
Sharing : INON
3
Godsend : BOON
4
Tubb, "The Texas Troubadour" : ERNEST
5
Blood : RELATION
6
Pertaining to the armpit : AXILLAR
7
They come in a pack : CIGS
8
Level of hierarchy: Abbr. : ECH
9
Quiddity : ESSENCE
10
Victorian, in a way : STODGY
11
Bargeman : CANALLER
12
Sporting wings : ALATE
13
Charles, to William : PATER
14
"Holy moly!" : EGADS
18
Prefix with state : TRI
22
Simple flute : TONETTE
23
Ionic compound : SALT
24
1910 Rodin sculpture at the Met : ADAM
25
Quaver, e.g. : NOTE
26
Yaks : GABS
30
Duds : GEAR
32
Platter : DISC
33
Nimiety : GLUT
34
Napoleon's empire of 1814-15 : ELBA
36
Available : INSEASON
38
Visibility aid : DEFOGGER
40
Presumed authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls : ESSENES
41
Subject of a Clive Cussler best seller, with "the" : TITANIC
44
Bottom part of a pump : INSOLE
46
Perpetual, in poesy : ETERNE
47
They're pulled in pulkas : LAPPS
48
Of the small intestine : ILEAC
49
Meteorologist's prefix : CIRRO
50
Hockey's Tikkanen : ESA
53
Abraded : WORE
54
Pro ___ : RATA
55
Greek letters : ETAS
56
___ Arden, Flash Gordon companion : DALE
58
Signal at Sotheby's : NOD

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

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