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New York Times, Saturday, February 11, 1995

Author:
Randolph Ross
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Across : Dearies
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Randolph Ross

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 33 Missing: {JQWXYZ} This is puzzle # 22 for Mr. Ross. Saturday freshness: 94%
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© 1995, The New York Times2/11/95 ( No. 16,531 )
Across
1
Called : RANG
5
Pattern : TEMPLATE
13
Untamed : FERAL
14
Helps get through : TIDESOVER
15
Spot ___ : OFTEA
16
Burberrys : RAINCOATS
17
"What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" group : REM
18
Part of a New England skyline : SPIRES
20
Site of many scrapes : KNEE
21
Indonesia's ___ Islands : ARU
22
Actress Allgood et al. : SARAS
23
Dearies : PETS
24
Alternatives to Rivieras : LESABRES
26
Sorry : SAD
27
Like an old schoolhouse : ONEROOM
28
Big Apple couple : TRUMPS
32
Run with quick, small steps : SCUTTLE
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Ready : PREPARE
34
Mideast native : SEMITE
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More in need of a brushoff? : LINTIER
36
Cedar Rapids college : COE
37
Like : COTTONTO
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It needs renewal : SLUM
40
Springe : CATCH
41
Vietnamese New Year : TET
42
Cruise : SAIL
43
Sinatra's "___ Way" : ALLTHE
44
Verdi aria "___ tu" : ERI
45
On the offensive : PROACTIVE
47
"I got the ___ the morning..." : SUNIN
49
Under control : CONTAINED
50
Gush : EMOTE
51
Held, as claims : ASSERTED
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Without : SANS
Down
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Aid for a maid : REFERENCE
2
Metropolitan, e.g. : ARTMUSEUM
3
Scottish refusal : NAE
4
Sightseeing boat feature : GLASSBOTTOM
5
Fancy headgear : TIARAS
6
Singer Brickell and others : EDIES
7
Department store department : MENS
8
Utilities regulatory agcy. : PSC
9
Admired : LOOKEDUPTO
10
D'___-guerre (prewar): Fr. : AVANT
11
Heads of Quebec : TETES
12
Relative of Manx : ERSE
13
One way to be thrown : FORALOSS
14
Ancient warship : TRIREME
19
Recent ex-con, maybe : PAROLEE
23
They keep groups together : PARENTHESES
25
State clearly : ARTICULATE
26
"Bus Stop" star: 1955 : STRITCH
29
Marquise de ___ (Louis XIV's second wife) : MAINTENON
30
Past tenses : PRETERITS
31
Late in flowering : SEROTINE
33
Drew a graph : PLOTTED
37
Made a little lower? : CALVED
38
Aegean gulf : SAROS
39
Silverdome team : LIONS
40
Lange role in "Sweet Dreams" : CLINE
42
Vet's employer: Abbr. : SPCA
43
Busy : ATIT
46
It's tired : CAR
48
Thurman of "Pulp Fiction" : UMA

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2 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 9 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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