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New York Times, Saturday, June 27, 1998

Author:
Alan Jay Weiss
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Down : Director's prerogative
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Alan Jay Weiss

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Weiss. Saturday freshness: 29%
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A
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V
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A
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M
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P
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C
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S
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B
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L
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B
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M
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A
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D
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B
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O
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P
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A
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B
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N
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A
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F
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G
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A
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P
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F
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R
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C
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P
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M
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A
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© 1998, The New York Times6/27/98 ( No. 17,763 )
Across
1
One of Frank's 27-Down : AVA
4
Movie-rating org. : MPAA
8
Lots of lager : CASES
13
Big pitch : BILLBOARD
16
Duck : EVADE
17
Source of cabinetry wood : ALDERTREE
18
House by a church : MANSE
19
Harbor openings : SEAGATES
20
Gather one's strength : RESTUP
21
Loads : ATON
22
With 32-Down, a drugstore purchase : DENTAL
23
Hardware purchase : BOLTS
25
Bargain : PACT
26
Welsh rabbit ingredient : ALE
28
One way to be knocked : SILLY
29
Worker's incentive : BONUS
30
Overrule : NIX
31
Bedfellow : ALLY
32
Winged : FLEET
33
Collapse : GIVE
34
Husband of Fatima : ALI
35
Brandy base : PLUMS
36
___ a fiddle : FITAS
37
Kind of flour : RYE
38
They may be exchanged in chambers : IONS
39
Superhero of pulp fiction : CONAN
40
Not AWOL : ONPOST
42
Actress Helgenberger : MARG
43
Boos : SCORNS
44
Buckthorn varieties : CASCARAS
48
Room with a view : AERIE
49
Metalworker? : ALCHEMIST
50
Feline, in Frankfurt : KATZE
51
Recklessly bold : DAREDEVIL
52
"A Flea ___ Ear" (Georges Feydeau play) : INHER
53
Interference : SNOW
54
W.W. II arena : ETO
Down
1
French protest phrase : ABAS
2
Hardly honorable : VILE
3
"Sweet Liberty" star : ALDA
4
"Virtute et Armis" and others : MOTTOS
5
Figure above a 9 or 0, for short : PAREN
6
Vultures were sacred to him : ARES
7
The Aesop of Indiana : ADE
8
Binds : CEMENTS
9
"Belay there!" : AVAST
10
Arcadia racing venue : SANTAANITA
11
"Toast of the Town" host : EDSULLIVAN
12
Percolate : SEEP
14
According to Hoyle : LEGALLY
15
Impudent : BRATTY
20
Director's prerogative : RECUT
22
About five million Europeans : DANES
23
"Suddenly" singer, 1985 : BILLYOCEAN
24
Reagan Administration figure : OLLIENORTH
25
Romantic recitals : POEMS
27
Onetime item : EXES
28
River from the Vosges Mountains : SAAR
29
Like a foil : BLUNT
32
See 22-Across : FLOSS
33
D. L. Coburn Pulitzer play, with "The" : GINGAME
35
Avant-gardist : PIONEER
36
Unnatural : FORCED
39
Kind of nut : CASHEW
41
It may be grand : PRIZE
42
Computer aid : MACRO
43
"Reginald" author : SAKI
44
MacGregor, to Rob Roy : CLAN
45
Bank of Paris : RIVE
46
___ were : ASIT
47
City on the Vire : STLO
49
Print ___ : ADS

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1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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