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New York Times, Saturday, October 15, 1994

Author:
Randolph Ross
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Randolph Ross

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 35 Missing: {FJKQVWZ} This is puzzle # 16 for Mr. Ross. Saturday freshness: 74%
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© 1994, The New York Times10/15/94 ( No. 16,412 )
Across
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Cyclists' cousins : MOPEDERS
9
"Rambo" rescuees : MIAS
13
Mundane : UNEXOTIC
14
Scribes : PENMEN
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Love songs: It. : SERENATE
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Portuguese peso : ESCUDO
18
Egyptian goddess : ISIS
19
Head of a team of eight : STNICHOLAS
21
TV comic Margaret : CHO
22
Words of Caesar : ETTU
23
Island bird : NENE
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Have it ___ : MADE
26
Lighting specialists? : ARSONISTS
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Grain beards : ARISTAS
30
Run ___ : RIOT
31
Pear product : NECTAR
32
Head garland : ANADEM
36
Suffix with stink : EROO
38
Breakfast food : GRANOLA
39
Crime phrase : DOESNTPAY
42
Special agents : TMEN
43
Old Syria : ARAM
44
Markers : IOUS
45
"___ Man" (1967 hit) : IMA
46
Whirling dance : TARANTELLA
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Without ___ (daringly) : ANET
50
Apt : LIABLE
51
Colorless, flammable gas : SILICANE
53
Hearths : INGLES
54
After-dinner drink : ANISETTE
55
Tarot reader : SEER
56
Consider in new light : REASSESS
Down
1
Robert Preston Broadway role : MUSICMAN
2
Wall Street unit : ONESHARE
3
Kind of table : PERIODIC
4
Split personalities? : EXES
5
Put on : DON
6
LAX data : ETAS
7
Thelma and John : RITTERS
8
Atomizers' contents : SCENTS
9
Click : MESH
10
Irregular : INCONSTANT
11
Charm : AMULET
12
Car choices : SEDANS
14
Related to finances : PECUNIARY
15
It won't get far by running : NOSE
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Like ___ not : ITOR
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Worthy : ESTEEMABLE
26
Descendants of Moses' brother : AARONITES
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Scotland's Monastery of ___ : IONA
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Punishes publicly : TARS
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Overwhelm : DOMINATE
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Euclidean work : ELEMENTS
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Endangered animals : MANATEES
37
Native Oklahoman : OTOE
38
Underground conduit : GASLINE
39
Saps : DRAINS
40
Rowing equipment, in old parlance : OARAGE
41
Radio wave emitter : PULSAR
43
King of the Huns : ATLI
47
Chi. Cub or Atl. Brave, e.g. : NLER
48
By another way: Lat. : ALIA
49
Top guns : ACES
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Mag. edition : ISS

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6 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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