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NY Times, Tue, Feb 21, 1995

Author: Martin Schneider/Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 349 (avg 1.87)
Open squares: 68, Cheater squares: 2, Freshness Factor™: 60.1
This is puzzle 2 of 12 for Mr. Schneider — solos: 12, collaborations: 0, Sundays: 5

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© 1995, The New York Times
Across Down
1. "Lights out" tune : TAPS
5. U.S. terr until 1912 : ARIZ
9. Dieter's lunch : SALAD
14. Opposite of sans : AVEC
15. _____ Raton : BOCA
16. Noted violinmaker : AMATI
17. Chaucer's Wife of _____ : BATH
18. Radar screen image : BLIP
19. Kayak : CANOE
20. Pre-Utah team : NEWORLEANSJAZZ
23. Breakfast-in-bed item : TRAY
24. Comic Johnson : ARTE
25. Put on years : AGE
26. Hushed : LOW
28. Priest's robe : ALB
30. Clairvoyance : ESP
33. Alcohol awareness org. : MADD
35. Writer Fleming : IAN
37. Slender : SVELTE
39. Pre-Los Angeles team : BROOKLYNDODGERS
42. Elicited : EDUCED
43. Anglo-Saxon letter : WYN
44. "Typee" sequel : OMOO
45. Like Gen. Powell : RET
46. Dadaist Hans : ARP
48. Ukr. or Russ., once : SSR
50. Some dash widths : ENS
51. Eurasia's _____ Mountains : URAL
53. King _____ : KONG
55. Pre-Indianapolis team : BALTIMORECOLTS
61. Furnish : EQUIP
62. Artful : FOXY
63. Manhandle : MAUL
65. American Kennel Club rejects : MUTTS
66. Sister and wife of Osiris : ISIS
67. New York canal : ERIE
68. Mississippi tributary : YAZOO
69. Mammilla : TEAT
70. Cell: Prefix : CYTO
 1. Bill : TAB
2. Trend-setting, perhaps : AVANTGARDE
3. Waned : PETEREDOUT
4. Vowel sound : SCHWA
5. This ans., e.g. : ABBR
6. Kind of bed : ROLLAWAY
7. Colder : ICIER
8. Revolutionary Emiliano : ZAPATA
9. Pouches : SACS
10. Key of Mozart's Symph. No. 29 : AMAJ
11. Actress Turner : LANA
12. The gamut : ATOZ
13. Number after nueve : DIEZ
21. Olive that's very thin : OYL
22. TV family, 1952-66 : NELSONS
25. Jurassic Park compound : AMBER
27. Crude container : OILDRUM
29. Brief letters? : BVD
30. Basic : ELEMENTARY
31. Forte : STRONGSUIT
32. Mexican moola : PESOS
34. Happy associate : DOC
36. Opposite SSE : NNW
38. I, to Claudius : EGO
40. Mauna _____ : KEA
41. Reading problem? : DYSLEXIA
47. Loss's partner : PROFIT
49. Orson Welles studio : RKO
52. Stood up : AROSE
54. Early Mexican : OLMEC
55. The Ronettes' "_____ Baby" : BEMY
56. Shade of blue : AQUA
57. Jump for Oksana Baiul : LUTZ
58. One of the Jackson 5 : TITO
59. _____ facto : IPSO
60. Skin abnormality : CYST
64. Pope who excommunicated Martin Luther : LEO
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