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New York Times, Saturday, May 20, 1995

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
40-Down : Before government cuts
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611.571,613877%
Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 29 Missing: {VZ} This is puzzle # 40 for Mr. Nosowsky. Saturday freshness: 90%
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© 1995, The New York Times5/20/95 ( No. 16,629 )
Across
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Back up : SECOND
7
Assess : CRITIQUE
15
Police foiler : ELUDER
16
Big hits : HOMERUNS
17
Ancient galley : BIREME
18
They keep things together : ELASTICS
19
Left : EXITED
20
Jokesters : WAGS
21
One of Webster's articles : THE
22
Gaucho's ropes : RIATAS
23
Nautical heading : ENE
24
"I'd consider ___ honor!" : ITAN
25
Alien's goal : GREENCARD
27
Mus. passage : CRESC
28
Places for M.D.'s : ORS
29
El Salvador Jose Napoleon ___ : DUARTE
30
Asian city of 8 million : JAKARTA
35
They give comeuppances : NEMESES
36
Margay look-alike : OCELOT
37
Salon creations : DOS
38
Loser to Taft in 1908 : BRYAN
39
Caught in lying, e.g. : TRIPPEDUP
45
Word with pool or pit : CESS
46
Casa lady: Abbr. : SRA
47
Verdi opera : ERNANI
48
"___ I had heard of Lucy Gray": Wordsworth : OFT
49
On a bias: Abbr. : DIAG
50
Formula : RECIPE
51
Based on : ROOTEDIN
53
Unaccented, as syllables : ATONIC
54
Metropolitan Opera star, 1918-37 : PONSELLE
55
Shoot in and out : DARTLE
56
Least gradual : STEEPEST
57
Some daisies : OXEYES
Down
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Star of "Breathless" : SEBERG
2
Potent potable : ELIXIR
3
Amicus ___ (friend of the court) : CURIAE
4
"Swan Lake" role : ODETTE
5
Pindar's "___ Odes" : NEMEAN
6
Subject of an 1857 Supreme Court decision : DREDSCOTT
7
Some bubble makers : CHEWERS
8
Casualty at Roncesvalles, in ballad : ROLAND
9
What a scanner scans : IMAGE
10
Dick Tracy's wife : TESS
11
N.Y.C. subway line : IRT
12
Deserters : QUITTERS
13
Immoral : UNCHASTE
14
Hearts : ESSENCES
24
Of wrath, in a hymn : IRAE
26
Constellation north of Norma : ARA
27
___ grano salis : CUM
29
Billy the Kid was one : DESPERADO
30
Employment program since 1964 : JOBCORPS
31
Unit of irrigation : ACREFOOT
32
___ comedy (farcical episode) : KEYSTONE
33
"Poor me!" : ALAS
34
Secretariat rider Turcotte : RON
35
We: Ital. : NOI
37
Police action : DRAGNET
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"Happy ___" : TRAILS
40
Before government cuts : PRETAX
41
Come again : ENCORE
42
Exquisite : DAINTY
43
Separate : UNPILE
44
Shards : PIECES
46
Edge : SIDLE
49
Thought-provoking : DEEP
52
Initials in poetry : TSE

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

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