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New York Times, Wednesday, February 2, 1994

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Will Shortz
34-Across : Italian epic poet
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Robert Katz

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 42 Missing: {FJQWXZ} This is puzzle # 74 for Mr. Katz. Wednesday freshness: 4%
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© 1994, The New York Times2/2/94 ( No. 16,157 )
Across
1
Eye site : POTATO
7
Freshens up baby : DIAPERS
14
Canceled : ERASED
15
P.O.W.'s : CAPTIVES
16
Partied hearty : ROCKED
17
Fossillike : OBSOLETE
18
"Liftoff" preceder : ONE
19
Early Beatle Sutcliffe : STU
21
Phone button : OPER
22
Bottom line : TOTAL
25
Suffix with depend or descend : ENT
27
4.0, e.g. : GPA
30
"Hey! Jealous Lover" singer : SINATRA
33
Goofs : ERRS
34
Italian epic poet : TASSO
36
Showy moths : IOS
37
Take in : REAP
38
Nursery-rhyme queen's fare : BREADANDHONEY
41
Thespian's quest : PART
42
Work unit : ERG
43
Shangri-las : EDENS
44
Timetable divisions : ERAS
45
Earth and moon, e.g. : SPHERES
47
Letter from Greece : PSI
48
Message from the Titanic : SOS
49
Satchel binder : STRAP
53
Willing : GAME
57
"___ Lazy River" : UPA
59
"___ minute" : INA
60
Twain and others : PENNAMES
63
Cloys with adoration : BESOTS
66
Twilight time : EVENTIDE
67
Voucher : CREDIT
68
Supplies with new hands : REDEALS
69
Iroquoian people : SENECA
Down
1
Computer salesman of renown : PEROT
2
Maine college town : ORONO
3
Musical direction : TACET
4
Question : ASK
5
Plumber's joint : TEE
6
Tote board stat : ODDS
7
Apply lightly : DAB
8
___ facto : IPSO
9
Not under : ATOP
10
Bundle : PILE
11
1977 Streisand hit : EVERGREEN
12
Abbr. in a military name : RET
13
Compass dir. : SSE
15
Nursery-rhyme king's den : COUNTINGHOUSE
20
Gunpowder, e.g. : TEA
23
Black numbers : ASSETS
24
'63 film "David and ___" : LISA
26
Marched : TROD
28
Wishes : PRAYS
29
Image in Egyptian art : ASP
31
Intersections : NODES
32
Tribe of Israel : ASHER
33
Repeated Jim Varney film role : ERNEST
34
Lifts of a sort : TBARS
35
Charged at the bench : ARRAIGNED
39
Some Dada works : ARPS
40
Ovid products : ODES
41
Vim : PEP
46
Empath's skill : ESP
50
___ Janeiro : RIODE
51
Lark : ANTIC
52
Ziti or fusilli : PASTA
54
Poet Bradstreet : ANNE
55
___ Hari : MATA
56
German biographer Ludwig : EMIL
58
Fundamentals : ABCS
60
Each : PER
61
Oscar-winning Joanne Woodward role : EVE
62
Masthead listings, for short : EDS
64
Poet's word : ERE
65
Boxer's title: Abbr. : SEN

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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