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New York Times, Tuesday, December 21, 1993

Author:
Janie Lyons
Editor:
Will Shortz
37-Across : Balkan capital
TotalDebutLatest
312/9/19931/24/1994
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0110100
ScrabbleFresh
1.5311%
Janie Lyons

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QWXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Lyons. Tuesday freshness: 9%
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© 1993, The New York Times12/21/93 ( No. 16,114 )
Across
1
Dog star : ASTA
5
Gull's cousin : TERN
9
Eyeball bender : OPART
14
Ground grain : MEAL
15
Mini revelation : KNEE
16
Red-eyed bird : VIREO
17
Haitian despot : PAPADOCDUVALIER
20
Cordwood measure : STERE
21
Dance in a shtetl : HORA
22
Out's opposite : SAFE
23
Vidal's Breckinridge : MYRA
25
Actor Young of TV's 67-Across : ALAN
27
Is grief-stricken : SOBS
30
Book subtitled "His Songs and His Sayings" : UNCLEREMUS
35
Supped : ATE
36
Relative of a Bap. or Presb. : METH
37
Balkan capital : TIRANA
38
Gabor sister : MAGDA
40
Thimbleful : SIP
42
Dryden work : ESSAY
43
Help get situated : ORIENT
45
Plugs of a sort : NAGS
47
Saturn's wife : OPS
48
1956 Rosalind Russell role : AUNTIEMAME
50
"For___us a child is born" : UNTO
51
Headlight? : HALO
52
Survey chart : PLAT
54
Seaweed product : AGAR
57
___ fixe : IDEE
59
Reached the total of : RANTO
63
Popular psychologist : DRJOYCEBROTHERS
66
Paul Anka hit : DIANA
67
See 25-Across : MRED
68
Deep blue : ANIL
69
Throat malady : STREP
70
Achy : SORE
71
James Mason sci-fi role of 1954 : NEMO
Down
1
Rock band equipment : AMPS
2
Usher : SEAT
3
Mend, in a way : TAPE
4
Alternatives to The Club : ALARMS
5
Round stopper : TKO
6
Delights : ENCHANTS
7
Change the decor : REDO
8
Kind of network : NEURAL
9
Roman breakfast? : OVA
10
Light beers : PILSNERS
11
"Jewel Song," e.g. : ARIA
12
Mariner's peril : REEF
13
Raced : TORE
18
She played Grace Van Owen on "L.A. Law" : DEY
19
Passepartout, to Phileas Fogg : VALET
24
Strongly scented plant : RUE
26
Stellar Ram : ARIES
27
Fiji neighbor : SAMOA
28
City in northern Japan : OTARU
29
Set in motion : BEGIN
31
Dinnerware : CHINA
32
Building contractor : MASON
33
Not suitable : UNAPT
34
Final authority : SAYSO
36
Madness : MANIA
39
Oust : DETHRONE
41
Nurse, maybe : PAMPERER
44
Directed toward a goal : TELIC
46
Hair fixative : GEL
49
Office connections? : MODEMS
50
Donny Osmond, e.g. : UTAHAN
53
Record-holding N.F.L. receiver ___Monk : ART
54
Postfixes : ADDS
55
Sandpaper surface : GRIT
56
Opened a crack : AJAR
58
Catalonian river : EBRO
60
Hawaiian hen : NENE
61
In shape : TRIM
62
Kon-Tiki Museum site : OSLO
64
Shrill bark : YAP
65
Lyric poem : ODE

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