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New York Times, Tuesday, December 26, 1995

Author:
Jonathan Schmatzbach
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : "The Cryptogram" playwright
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Jonathan Schmalzbach

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {PXYZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 16 for Mr. Schmalzbach. Tuesday freshness: 45%
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© 1995, The New York Times12/26/95 ( No. 16,849 )
Across
1
"The Cryptogram" playwright : MAMET
6
Like most workhorses : SHOD
10
"___ you know!" : ALOT
14
Calculating snake? : ADDER
15
Hockey great Gordie : HOWE
16
Shoreline recess : COVE
17
Versatile one : JACKOFALLTRADES
20
"___ my brother's keeper?" : AMI
21
Announcer's call on a pitch : WIDE
22
Slot cars, e.g. : RACERS
23
"A ___' clock scholar" : TENO
24
Comic Jacques : TATI
25
Jimmy Doolittle, for one : WORLDWARIIACE
30
Food writer Rombauer et al. : IRMAS
31
Up ___ good : TONO
32
Topper : HAT
34
Paper quantity : REAM
35
Guitar ridges : FRETS
37
___ Marie Presley : LISA
38
Japanese honorific : SAN
39
Bellicose Olympian : ARES
40
Dumb mistake : BONER
41
45
Geologic time divisions : EONS
46
Lie next to : ABUT
47
Parasitic grub : MAGGOT
50
Some nest eggs: Abbr. : IRAS
51
Slugger's stat : RBI
54
1951 Oscar film for Bogart : THEAFRICANQUEEN
57
Intl. business accord : GATT
58
Perfume : ODOR
59
Deprive of courage : UNMAN
60
Being, to Brutus : ESSE
61
Grow dim : WANE
62
Bridge positions : EASTS
Down
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Goya's "Naked ___" : MAJA
2
First of all : ADAM
3
Start of the 17th century : MDCI
4
Comic strip shriek : EEK
5
Bricklayers' tools : TROWELS
6
Peter Pan's loss : SHADOW
7
Golfer's object : HOLE
8
Athena's symbol : OWL
9
Gets off a Pullman : DETRAINS
10
Locust : ACACIA
11
Prospector's bonanza : LODE
12
Out's partner : OVER
13
"Guarding ___" (1994 movie) : TESS
18
Discover : FIND
19
Price-earnings ___ : RATIO
23
Trolley : TRAM
24
Harness race : TROT
25
Inflict : WREAK
26
Muscat native : OMANI
27
Bikini blast : ATEST
28
Sèvres or Wedgwood : CHINA
29
Relieved : EASED
30
4/15 inits. : IRS
33
Driveway cover : TAR
35
Best seats in the house : FRONTROW
36
Arbitrators, for short : REFS
37
Pirate's recompense : LOOT
39
Make ___ (err) : AGOOF
40
Curt : BRUSQUE
42
Nullify : NEGATE
43
Capital of Zimbabwe : HARARE
44
Israel's Abba : EBAN
47
Homeowner's payment: Abbr. : MTGE
48
Cries of discovery : AHAS
49
Secure : GETS
50
Screen symbol : ICON
51
X-ray measurements : REMS
52
___ Generation (Kerouac et al.) : BEAT
53
Hostelries : INNS
55
Wash. neighbor : IDA
56
Spenserian heroine : UNA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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