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New York Times, Monday, August 28, 1995

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
40-Across : El Greco's birthplace
TotalDebutLatest
2197/31/19952/23/2016
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6716363439243
RebusCircleScrabblePGramFresh
30221.54553%
Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FQX} This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Gorski. Monday freshness: 50%
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© 1995, The New York Times8/28/95 ( No. 16,729 )
Across
1
Fence openings : GATES
6
___ California : BAJA
10
Airline to Tel Aviv : ELAL
14
Open-eyed : ALERT
15
Israeli statesman Abba : EBAN
16
Casual dissent : NOPE
17
Really small : TEENYWEENY
19
"Concord Sonata" composer : IVES
20
Some walk-ups : TENEMENTS
21
Discharge : EGEST
22
___ de la Cité : ILE
23
Frost-covered : RIMY
24
Iterated : ECHOED
28
On and off : SPORADIC
32
Greetings at sea : AHOYS
33
Slick goo : SLIME
34
Homophone for 50-Down : ORA
35
Poses (for) : SITS
36
String quartet member : VIOLA
37
Novelist ___ S. Connell Jr. : EVAN
38
Em chasers : ENS
39
Housekeeper of 60's TV : HAZEL
40
El Greco's birthplace : CRETE
41
Big city horizons : SKYLINES
43
Troupe member : PLAYER
44
London gallery : TATE
45
Ryan's "Love Story" co-star : ALI
46
Prostrate : PRONE
48
Like vending machines : AUTOMATED
54
Campus mil. org. : ROTC
55
Really big to-do : HURLYBURLY
56
___ quam videri (North Carolina motto) : ESSE
57
Gymnast Korbut : OLGA
58
De-file a disk? : ERASE
59
Remunerates : PAYS
60
About midmonth : IDES
61
Wives of knights : DAMES
Down
1
Intl. commerce org. : GATT
2
Nautical direction : ALEE
3
Tiger Beat reader : TEEN
4
Sea eagle : ERNE
5
Holds up : STYMIES
6
Designer Geoffrey : BEENE
7
Help a crook : ABET
8
Comedienne Hooks et al. : JANS
9
Whichever : ANY
10
Elgar's "___ Variations" : ENIGMA
11
Really affectionate : LOVEYDOVEY
12
Copies : APES
13
For fear that : LEST
18
Fuse : WELD
21
Irish republic : EIRE
23
"Arrivederci ___" : ROMA
24
Facilitates : EASES
25
Armorial flaw : CHINK
26
Really fine : HOTSYTOTSY
27
Cries of dismay : OYS
28
Blackthorns : SLOES
29
Alternative to a caplet : PILL
30
Fit to be tied : IRATE
31
Furniture worker : CANER
33
"One ___ fits all" : SIZE
36
Windmill blade : VANE
37
Historical period : ERA
39
Sexologist Shere : HITE
40
Ascended : CLIMBED
42
Jousters' equipment : LANCES
43
Scheme : PLOY
45
A two-dimensional world : ATLAS
46
Kind of school : PREP
47
Civil rights figure Parks : ROSA
48
"___ Lang Syne" : AULD
49
Egg on : URGE
50
New Age-ish glow : AURA
51
Cable car : TRAM
52
Word in ultimatum : ELSE
53
Henna and others : DYES
55
___ polloi : HOI

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

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