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New York Times, Monday, November 27, 1995

Author:
Gregory E. Paul
Editor:
Will Shortz
37-Across : Cloy
TotalDebutLatest
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Gregory E. Paul

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 42 Missing: {JXZ} This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Paul. Monday freshness: 22%
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© 1995, The New York Times11/27/95 ( No. 16,820 )
Across
1
Mule's father : ASS
4
Comic Carvey : DANA
8
"Beat it!" : SCRAM
13
Actress Turner : LANA
15
Actor Jannings : EMIL
16
Mild cigar : CLARO
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___ the Red : ERIC
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Pro ___ (like some legal work) : BONO
19
Bronco-busting affair : RODEO
20
Subway system : RAPIDTRANSIT
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Bara of the silents : THEDA
24
Prairie diggers : GOPHERS
28
All thumbs : INEPT
32
Apple co-founder ___ Jobs : STEVEN
33
Gunslinger's forte : QUICKDRAW
37
Cloy : SATE
38
From ___ Z : ATO
39
Shopping bags : TOTES
41
Prefix with gram or meter : DIA
42
TV knob : TINT
44
Basketball strategy : FASTBREAK
47
Green-card holders : ALIENS
50
Rubberneck : STARE
51
Parish heads : RECTORS
53
Maxim : ADAGE
57
Harvard's ___ Club : HASTYPUDDING
61
Feed a fete : CATER
64
Willa Cather's "One of ___" : OURS
65
Skunk's defense : ODOR
66
Car security device : ALARM
67
Toward shelter, to a sailor : ALEE
68
Willing : GAME
69
Rapture : BLISS
70
Miss Durbeyfield : TESS
71
Amount after expenses : NET
Down
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Argus-eyed : ALERT
2
Opera's Caldwell : SARAH
3
Criticize snidely, with "at" : SNIPE
4
Liability : DEBT
5
Love, to Livy : AMOR
6
Ship of 1492 : NINA
7
Dylan's "All ___ the Watchtower" : ALONG
8
Teleplay : SCRIPT
9
Threads : CLOTHES
10
"Cool!" : RAD
11
Exist : ARE
12
Roundup remark : MOO
14
Tart : ACIDIC
21
Cool and damp : DANK
22
Brillo rival : SOS
25
Dodge : EVADE
26
Nerve networks : RETIA
27
Kind of preview or thief : SNEAK
29
Aug. clock setting in N.Y.C. : EDT
30
Head of the class : PROF
31
Soho so longs : TATAS
33
Land near Bahrain : QATAR
34
Applicable : UTILE
35
Like some Greek columns : IONIC
36
Sunset direction : WEST
40
Amtrak stop: Abbr. : STA
43
Restraining ropes : TETHERS
45
Wire nail : BRAD
46
Blitz, in football : REDDOG
48
Feature of the Venus de Milo : NOARMS
49
Sophs, two years later : SRS
52
Summer ermine : STOAT
54
Actor Quinn : AIDAN
55
Troll : GNOME
56
Everglades bird : EGRET
58
Christmas : YULE
59
Clinton, e.g.: Abbr. : PRES
60
Employs : USES
61
Taxi : CAB
62
Pledge of Allegiance ending : ALL
63
Mai ___ : TAI

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