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New York Times, Saturday, February 21, 1998

Author:
Richard Hughes
Editor:
Will Shortz
26-Down : Big game
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Richard Hughes

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {HJQZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Hughes. Saturday freshness: 14%
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© 1998, The New York Times2/21/98 ( No. 17,637 )
Across
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Camel, e.g. : CIGARETTE
10
Unwanted line : SCAR
14
How to pirouette : ONONEFOOT
15
Coughed (up) : ANTED
17
Matured : CAMEOFAGE
18
Soprano Lehmann : LOTTE
19
Had down : KNEW
20
Sole supporters? : ODOREATERS
22
"___ out!" : YER
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Plain : DRY
24
Formidable opponents : NEMESES
25
"___ is a jealous mistress": Emerson : ART
26
Adriatic port : BARI
27
___ kwon do : TAE
28
Constant criticism : ABUSE
31
Greek city-state : POLIS
32
Geographical abbr. : STR
33
Sandwich filler : TUNA
34
Papal garment : ORALE
35
Editor's scribble : STET
36
Big inits. in movies : TNT
37
"Last Resorts" author, 1952 : AMORY
38
Imperative and subjunctive : MOODS
39
Palindromic animal : EWE
40
Lagerlöf's "The Wonderful Adventures of ___" : NILS
41
L'océan : EAU
42
Girl of a 1925 Broadway hit : NANETTE
44
Days long gone by : ELD
45
It borders N.J. : ATL
48
Fill a four-card flush, perhaps : DRAWASPADE
50
Circus participant : FLEA
51
Red ash : EMBER
52
Crybabies : SNIVELERS
54
Roma, la città ___ fontane : DELLE
55
Miscellanies : ETCETERAS
56
Aunts and uncles: Abbr. : RELS
57
Accompany, as on a train : SITNEXTTO
Down
1
Filled with oneself : COCKY
2
Cuckoo : INANE
3
Character in a 60's TV spinoff : GOMER
4
De novo : ANEW
5
Car once called "The Gold Standard of Values" : REO
6
Attempt : EFFORT
7
Tuft-hunter : TOADY
8
Sign in a restaurant : TOGO
9
How grateful can one be? : ETERNALLY
10
Deli offerings : SALAMIS
11
Big piece of lettuce : CNOTE
12
Corroborates : ATTESTSTO
13
Pulled out : RETREATED
16
Parts of a carte on a cart? : DESSERTS
21
Chilling, in a way : EERIE
23
Rap's Dr. ___ : DRE
25
___ rule : ASA
26
Big game : BOARS
28
Took care of : ATTENDED
29
Buffet table appliance : BUNWARMER
30
Worse than precarious : UNTENABLE
31
Anticipations of possible objections, in rhetoric : PROLEPSES
34
Misses : OMITS
35
Old bronze coin : SOU
37
Brightest star in Scorpio : ANTARES
38
Cuckoo : MAD
41
Curfew, maybe : ELEVEN
43
"The Seven Year Itch" co-star : EWELL
44
Order : EDICT
45
Tip off : ALERT
46
Monster: Prefix : TERAT
47
Rope : LASSO
49
Debate side : ANTI
50
Bend : FLEX
53
La saison d'___ : ETE

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

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