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New York Times, Saturday, July 31, 1999

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
6-Down : They're sometimes rolled in
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Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {FKQXZ} This is puzzle # 61 for Mr. Piscop. Saturday freshness: 69%
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© 1999, The New York Times7/31/99 ( No. 18,162 )
Across
1
Marketing sensation of 1998 : VIAGRA
7
Wears : ABRADES
14
Nobelist Sakharov : ANDREI
15
Whooping it up : JUBILANT
16
Pressure, metaphorically : SCREWS
17
Stiff : UNLIMBER
18
Mario of the N.B.A. : ELIE
19
When Passion Sunday falls : LENT
21
Certain N.H.L.er : SABRE
22
Schoolyard putdown : LIAR
23
"I Still See ___" ("Paint Your Wagon" tune) : ELISA
25
Capacity units, these days : MEGS
26
Kind of verb: Abbr. : INT
27
Regarding : ASTO
28
Knight of note : GLADYS
30
Noel who played Lois Lane : NEILL
32
Almond-orange syrup : ORGEAT
34
Slipper? : ESCAPER
36
Superheroes, to villains : NEMESES
40
Violinist Mintz : SHLOMO
42
Utah canyon : BRYCE
43
Way in : PORTAL
46
Pucks : IMPS
48
Either of two N.T. books : COR
49
Improved, in a way : AGED
50
"Like a Rock" singer, 1986 : SEGER
52
Cager Archibald : NATE
53
Like Lincoln : SLAIN
55
Mock words of enlightenment : AHSO
56
"___ My Way" ("Porgy and Bess" tune) : IMON
57
Most blue : SALTIEST
59
Moss Hart's autobiography : ACTONE
61
The chosen : ELECTEES
62
Concerns for Coleridge : METRES
63
Some brunch servings : RASHERS
64
Like the chief fox : SLIEST
Down
1
Hospital supply : VASELINE
2
They get things rolling : INCLINES
3
The Strait of Otranto connects to it : ADRIATIC
4
"The Female Eunuch" author : GREER
5
Recorder button : REW
6
They're sometimes rolled in : AISLES
7
Stereotypical fussbudgets : AUNTS
8
Tankerload: Abbr. : BBL
9
Chronicler of slum life : RIIS
10
Homecoming spot : ALMAMATER
11
Used a hankie, maybe : DABBED
12
It's no matter : ENERGY
13
Occupational hazard, often : STRESS
15
Kind of college : JUNIOR
20
The losing combatant, usually : ELTORO
24
Onetime Met Tommie : AGEE
27
Primary : ALPHA
29
Altar offerings, maybe : LAMBS
31
Like some efforts : LASTDITCH
33
Subterranean shorties : GNOMES
35
Some bends : ELLS
37
Buttonwood : SYCAMORE
38
Transitional zones between different plant communities : ECOTONES
39
Least cloudy : SERENEST
41
Powers : MIGHTS
43
QB, at times : PASSER
44
Crazy Horse, e.g. : OGLALA
45
Pieces of pieces of eight : REALES
47
Some tourneys : PROAMS
51
Slips : EASES
52
Capone colleague : NITTI
54
Nick's time : NITE
58
Auction ender : EER
60
Art collectible : CEL

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

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