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NY Times, Friday, December 10, 1993

Author: Alex K. Justin/Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q V }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.47)
Open squares: 71, Cheater squares: 0, Freshness Factor™: 62.3
This is puzzle 1 of 14 for Mr. Justin — solos: 14, collaborations: 0, Sundays: 4

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© 1993, The New York Times
Across Down
1. David Bowie's model wife : IMAN
5. Famed Dublin theater : ABBEY
10. Terrier of fiction : ASTA
14. Canceled : NOGO
15. Pen : WRITE
16. Paula of "CBS This Morning" : ZAHN
17. Burgeon : GROW
18. "Read my lips" declaration : NONEWTAXES
20. Never : ATNOTIME
22. Actress Graft of "Mr. Belvedere" : ILENE
23. It's forbidden : NONO
24. It may be blind : DATE
26. Veteran sailor : SEADOG
29. Polite refusal : NOTHANKS
33. Montreal street sign : ARRET
34. Indian craft : CANOE
35. Suffix with diet or planet : ARY
36. Bush Attorney General William : BARR
37. Become misty : FOGUP
38. Computer symbol : ICON
39. "How was _____ know?" : ITO
40. Buy around : TREAT
41. Cultural: Prefix : ETHNO
42. 1987 Costner thriller : NOWAYOUT
44. Carried on : LASTED
45. PC operator : USER
46. Country ballroom? : BARN
47. Alamogordo's county : OTERO
50. "Jack Sprat could _____" : EATNOFAT
54. Straight from the shoulder : NONONSENSE
57. Bear up? : URSA
58. Kuwaiti ruler : EMIR
59. Get _____ of one's own medicine : ADOSE
60. Go smoothly : SAIL
61. Actress Thompson : SADA
62. Kind of situation : NOWIN
63. Noted Ferrara family : ESTE
 1. Swenson of "Benson" : INGA
2. Satirist Sahl : MORT
3. Attic contest : AGON
4. "I'm not surprised!" : NOWONDER
5. Storefront sight : AWNING
6. Headache easer, for short : BROMO
7. Twining stem : BINE
8. Riviera season : ETE
9. Material for archers' bows : YEW
10. Rhododendron : AZALEA
11. _____-Coburg (former duchy) : SAXE
12. "_____He Kissed Me" (1963 hit) : THEN
13. Addie's husband in "As I Lay Dying" : ANSE
19. Church gift : TITHE
21. Drinking binge : TOOT
24. Dunking item : DONUT
25. Over : ATOP
26. Polio fighter : SABIN
27. Lyrist of myth : ERATO
28. "This way" sign : ARROW
29. Complain relentlessly to : NAGAT
30. Strauss's "Eine _____in Venedig" : NACHT
31. Jockey Julie : KRONE
32. Religious council : SYNOD
34. _____d'Alene, Idaho : COEUR
37. Splitting tool : FROE
38. "I can't go on!" : ITSNOUSE
40. Spinks defeater, 1988 : TYSON
41. Deserve : EARN
43. Roman Eos : AURORA
44. Mediterranean vessel : LATEEN
46. Ezio Pinza and others : BASSI
47. Singles : ONES
48. Tony Musante TV series : TOMA
49. Novelist Bagnold : ENID
50. Sufficient, once : ENOW
51. Lippo Lippi et al. : FRAS
52. Didion's "Play It _____ Lays" : ASIT
53. Chaucer piece : TALE
55. Antonio or Juan : SAN
56. Conductor de Waart : EDO
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