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New York Times, Monday, November 22, 1993

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Down : Strawberry, once
TotalDebutLatest
15311/22/19936/11/2023
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RebusScrabblePGramFresh
11.55233%
Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {QX} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Piscop. Monday freshness: 38%
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G
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O
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O
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V
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A
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L
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V
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C
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S
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H
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D
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R
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P
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M
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J
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N
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© 1993, The New York Times11/22/93 ( No. 16,085 )
Across
1
Understood : GOT
4
Some tracks : OVALS
9
___ Rizzo ('69 Hoffman role) : RATSO
14
Santa ___ winds : ANA
15
Actress Anouk : AIMEE
16
Significant person? : OTHER
17
Kauai keepsake : LEI
18
Small person : HOPOMYTHUMB
20
Legit : LAWFUL
22
Caroline Schlossberg, to Ted Kennedy : NIECE
23
Type style: Abbr. : ITAL
24
Big Mama : CASS
25
Church part : NAVE
29
Rummy variety : CANASTA
32
The mark on the Č in Čapek : HACEK
33
Calendar period, to Kirk : STARDATE
37
Caustic substance : LYE
38
Traditional tune : SKIPTOMYLOU
40
Pub quaff : ALE
42
Logical newsman? : REASONER
43
Long-lasting curls : PERMS
45
Depicts : RENDERS
49
Health-food store staple : TOFU
50
Jerry Herman composition : MAME
53
Dash : ELAN
54
Michelangelo masterpiece : PIETA
56
Journalist Greeley : HORACE
58
Used booster cables : JUMPSTARTED
62
Tina's ex : IKE
63
Correspond, grammatically : AGREE
64
Regarded favorably : LIKED
65
Pince-___ : NEZ
66
Former Justice Byron : WHITE
67
Air-show maneuvers : LOOPS
68
Palindrome center : ERE
Down
1
French : GALLIC
2
___ time (singly) : ONEATA
3
Taipei's land : TAIWAN
4
Honolulu locale : OAHU
5
Fat fiddle : VIOL
6
Fuse word : AMP
7
First name in hotels : LEONA
8
Big rigs : SEMIS
9
Campus mil. grp. : ROTC
10
Daughter of Zeus : ATHENA
11
Calendar abbr. : THU
12
Theology sch. : SEM
13
Eye : ORB
19
___-man (flunky) : YES
21
Hooch container : FLASK
24
Magna ___ : CARTA
26
Rights grp. : ACLU
27
"Oy ___!" : VEY
28
___ out (supplement) : EKE
30
Hoosegows : STIRS
31
Footrace terminus : TAPE
32
Stage actress Hayes : HELEN
34
MS follower? : DOS
35
Love, Italian style : AMORE
36
Newcastle-upon-___, England : TYNE
38
Esne : SERF
39
Judge's exhortation : ORDER
40
Prone : APT
41
Name of 13 popes : LEO
44
Oscar the Grouch, for one : MUPPET
46
Julia Louis-Dreyfus on "Seinfeld" : ELAINE
47
Pool-ball gatherer : RACKER
48
Common cause for blessing : SNEEZE
50
Strawberry, once : MET
51
"Any Time ___" (Beatles tune) : ATALL
52
Auto-racer Andretti : MARIO
55
Words of comprehension : ISEE
56
"David Copperfield" character : HEEP
57
Ten to one, e.g. : ODDS
58
Gossip : JAW
59
"That's disgusting!" : UGH
60
High-tech med. diagnostics : MRI
61
Foreman stat : TKO

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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