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New York Times, Saturday, June 7, 1997

Author:
Martin Schneider
Editor:
Will Shortz
Noted writer imprisoned for bank embezzlement
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Martin Schneider

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Schneider. Saturday freshness: 33%
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© 1997, The New York Times6/7/97 ( No. 17,378 )
Across
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Eponymous Dutch explorer : TASMAN
7
Reg. : STD
10
Adventure hero Williams : REMO
14
Whole : INTACT
15
Indignation : IRE
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Treaty of Versailles river : ODER
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Start of a quip : SAIDTHEZEN
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Bias : TILT
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Eta : aitch :: rho : ___ : PEE
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Echoes : RESONATES
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Part 2 of the quip : BUDDHISTTOTHE
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Aeronautics achievement : SOLO
26
Four-stringed instrument : UKULELE
27
Openings : ORA
28
Scruff : NAPE
29
Royal topper : TIARA
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Part 3 of the quip : HOTDOG
36
Part 4 of the quip : VENDOR
37
"___ by land..." : ONEIF
38
Capital city founded in 1050 : OSLO
41
Member of a British family : MUM
42
Graphic designer's tool : STENCIL
44
Barristers' accouterments : WIGS
45
Part 5 of the quip : MAKEMEONEWITH
48
Paul Bunyan device : HYPERBOLE
49
Form of Latin "to be" : EST
50
Working : ATIT
51
End of the quip : EVERYTHING
55
What this isn't : THAT
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___ center : REC
57
Noted writer imprisoned for bank embezzlement : OHENRY
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Anglo-Saxon slave : ESNE
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Certain hotel, for short : SRO
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Civil rights activist Evers : MEDGAR
Down
1
Seasonal contraction : TIS
2
Request to Vanna : ANA
3
Set forth : STIPULATE
4
Coped : MADEDO
5
Played : ACTED
6
Last in a long line : NTH
7
Assesses : SIZESUP
8
Engineering construction : TRESTLE
9
Mean : DENOTE
10
Add gradually, as crops to a field : ROTATEIN
11
"Dombey and Son" woman : EDITH
12
Row : MELEE
13
Waste of a meal : ORTS
18
Eleniak of "Baywatch" : ERIKA
22
"Cape Fear" co-star : NOLTE
23
Element in colemanite : BORON
24
Hovered : HUNG
25
Lower Broadway area : SOHO
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Conceding : ADMITTING
31
It might make a bad lie : ROUGH
32
Subject of illicit trade : ARMS
34
Floppy : DISKETTE
35
More frequently, old-style : OFTER
36
Mouselike animal : VOLE
38
Bogey : ONEOVER
39
Worm: Prefix : SCOLECO
40
Queen Elizabeth, for one : LINER
43
Marshmallow roasters : EMBERS
44
Pined : WISHED
45
Some are Greek : MYTHS
46
Beelike : APIAN
47
Constitution's first words : WETHE
48
Kind of crime : HATE
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Day, in Hebrew : YOM
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Org. with 3.4 million members : NRA
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Spiral: Prefix : GYR

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

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