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New York Times, Friday, November 24, 1995

Author:
Bob Klahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
34-Across : Baseless?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
601/29/19945/22/201110
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CircleScrabblePGramFresh
11.57176%
Bob Klahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXY} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 15 for Mr. Klahn. Friday freshness: 6%
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B
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© 1995, The New York Times11/24/95 ( No. 16,817 )
Across
1
Out-of-focus object : BLOB
5
Pencil chewing, e.g. : HABIT
10
Stopper opener? : SHOW
14
Margarita ingredient : LIME
15
Shelved for now : ONICE
16
Eggplant color : PUCE
17
Start of a quip : IVESEENTHELIGHT
20
Fivesome : PENTAD
21
Phoebe, Rhea or Tethys : TITANESS
22
"Old" country : SOD
24
Just in or just out : NEW
25
Part 2 of quip : NOVIEWISGREATER
34
Baseless? : ACID
35
Day break : NAP
36
Put on : STAGE
37
German equivalent of the Oscar : OTTO
38
Unsolicited manuscripts : SLUSH
41
In this race, the runners are always behind : LUGE
42
Deliberate : MEANT
44
Old New Yorker cartoonist Gardner : REA
45
Olympian hawk : ARES
46
Part 3 of quip : ITSTHEONEINSIDE
50
Fabled sleeper, informally : RIP
51
Cowboy or Indian : PRO
52
Emerald City locale : LANDOFOZ
57
Behind : LOSING
62
End of quip : THEREFRIGERATOR
64
Frank Herbert book series : DUNE
65
Cigar butts? : ETTES
66
Atlantic City attraction : KENO
67
Diving duck : SMEW
68
Pork purchases : LOINS
69
Air apparent? : SMOG
Down
1
Radar dot : BLIP
2
Full of current : LIVE
3
Eclipse, maybe, to primitive peoples : OMEN
4
Tiptop : BEST
5
Country blowouts : HOEDOWNS
6
Fay, in "King Kong" : ANN
7
Mooring post : BITT
8
"Book of Changes" : ICHING
9
Wobble : TEETER
10
English : SPIN
11
Gargantuan : HUGE
12
Singer Phil : OCHS
13
Volstead Act opponents : WETS
18
Lighten : EASE
19
Noted criminologist with an apt-sounding name : LAWES
23
Ring up : DIAL
25
Supermodel Campbell : NAOMI
26
Mendelssohn's ___ in E flat major : OCTET
27
Bjorn competitor : VITAS
28
"___ Wanna Cry" (Mariah Carey #1 hit) : IDONT
29
Cold-shoulder : SPURN
30
Man of the world : ATLAS
31
Bull: Prefix : TAURI
32
Incited, with "on" : EGGED
33
"Don't You Know" songstress : REESE
39
Slip through the cracks : SEEP
40
Bald : HAIRLESS
43
Spasm : THROE
47
Tower designer Alexandre : EIFFEL
48
City north of Lisbon : OPORTO
49
Jordan's Queen ___ : NOOR
52
Former Ford models : LTDS
53
Buzzing : AHUM
54
Endangered state bird : NENE
55
Allured : DREW
56
Tubular pasta : ZITI
58
"Mame" director Gene : SAKS
59
Society note : ITEM
60
A don't : NONO
61
Tar's toddy : GROG
63
Ike, e.g.: Abbr. : GEN

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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