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New York Times, Wednesday, June 22, 1994

Author: Arthur S. Verdesca
Editor: Will Shortz
Arthur S. Verdesca
Arthur S. Verdesca
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 37 Missing: {FJQX} This is puzzle # 30 for Mr. Verdesca. NYT links: Across Lite
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© 1994, The New York TimesNo. 0622 ( 16,297 )
Across Down
1. Entertain from house to house : CAROL
6. Sirs' counterparts : MADAMS
12. Horse show locales : ARENAS
14. Slow musical pieces : ADAGIOS
16. Kind of license or justice : POETIC
17. Measles variety : RUBELLA
18. W.W. II German bomber : STUKA
19. "From the_____ of Montezuma" : HALLS
21. Pascal's law : LOI
22. Part of H.R.H. : HIS
23. Fixed, as a gauge : PRESET
25. Reposed : LAIN
26. Iris's place : UVEA
28. Chichi : ARTY
29. Place for belt-tightening : WAIST
30. Flooring of marble chips : TERRAZZO
32. Ibsen play : GHOSTS
33. Singer Laine : CLEO
34. Kind of suit : ZOOT
35. Strait of Dover port : CALAIS
38. Women's wide-legged pants : PALAZZOS
42. _____ -garde : AVANT
43. District : ZONE
44. Orient : EAST
45. Shower attention (on) : DOTE
46. Jeans : DENIMS
48. Third-millennium year : MMI
49. "_____ Along Little Dogies" : GIT
50. Gist : SENSE
51. Drum accompanying a fife : TABOR
53. Academy Award category : EDITING
55. Strainers : SIEVES
57. Quietus : DECEASE
58. Pluck, as eyebrows : TWEEZE
59. Juicer : REAMER
60. Iris with a fragrant rootstock : ORRIS
 1. Prisoner : CAPTIVE
2. Alarm, e.g. : AROUSER
3. Stink : REEK
4. Like some beer : ONTAP
5. My _____, Vietnam : LAI
6. "A Christmas Carol" specter : MARLEY
7. Not for kiddies : ADULT
8. Small flatfishes : DABS
9. Questionnaire info : AGE
10. "Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru" artist : MILLAIS
11. Recital singer : SOLOIST
13. Sonata's third movement, often : SCHERZO
15. Louisiana 11 : SAINTS
18. Folded up : SHUT
20. Respecting : ASTO
24. Demolishes : RAZES
25. Founder of Taoism : LAOTZE
27. Esoteric : ARCANE
29. Avast, on land : WHOA
31. Got off : ALIT
32. Robot, in Jewish legend : GOLEM
34. Most like the Marx Brothers : ZANIEST
35. Sponged : CADGED
36. Dodger : AVOIDER
37. Trellis : LATTICE
38. Singer Lily : PONS
39. Africa's fourth-longest river : ZAMBEZI
40. Seeps : OSMOSES
41. Pen : STIR
43. Early American publisher Peter : ZENGER
46. Stupid : DENSE
47. Beef cattle : STEER
50. Where Anna Leonowens taught : SIAM
52. Affirm : AVER
54. Japanese drink : TEA
56. W.W. II battle site, for short : IWO

Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 3 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.

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