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New York Times, Saturday, January 1, 1994

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
49-Across : Tar
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Nosowsky. Saturday freshness: 24%
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© 1994, The New York Times1/1/94 ( No. 16,125 )
Across
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Hunt : STALK
6
Dos follow : PASSOS
12
Asseveration : STATING
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When the ghost appears in "Hamlet" : ACTONE
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Cold weather wear : CASHMERE
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Name : REPUTE
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___ out of (reject) : OPT
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Famously hot California town : NEEDLES
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Like some tapes : VHS
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First name in fashion : OLEG
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Longtime labor chief : LEWIS
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Matter of meter : FEET
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Former Israeli P.M. : PERES
28
Catch : NAB
29
Sheep menace : DINGO
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San Francisco landmark : THEPRESIDIO
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Not the world's nicest boss : SLAVEDRIVER
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Smuggler's nemesis, maybe : SHOREPATROL
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Personal article, in law : CHOSE
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Two-___ : PLY
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Bit of regalia : TIARA
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"Blue Moon" lyricist : HART
42
Hasidic leader : REBBE
44
Like some medicines : ORAL
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Classified item, for short : APT
46
Pitches : CAREENS
48
Telephone button : MNO
49
Tar : SEADOG
51
Walter Raleigh quest : ELDORADO
53
City on the Williamette : EUGENE
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Tripoli locale : LEBANON
55
Discharged : SPEWED
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Work clothes, perhaps : DENIM
Down
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Use a Swingline : STAPLE
2
Checker, maybe : TASTER
3
Olympic abbr. : ATH
4
Portray : LIMN
5
Pay homage to : KNEEL
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Bates : PARES
7
They're good with tricks : ACES
8
Engine additive : STP
9
Remembrance of things past? : SOUVENIR
10
Active : ONTHEGO
11
Is conscientious : SEESTO
12
News first : SCOOP
13
Stuff it! : GREENPEPPER
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1975 Pulitzer playwright : EDWARDALBEE
20
50-cent picture : LIBERTYBELL
23
"Scram!" : GETLOST
25
Opera set in Seville : FIDELIO
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Lion's amount? : SHARE
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Matter of course? : DIVOT
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Palindromic lady : EVE
32
Churchill, e.g. : SIR
33
Want : SHORTAGE
34
Work out at the gym : SHAPEUP
35
Fox-hunt sites : CHASES
38
Blass rival : ARMANI
39
___ House : RANDOM
40
Crazy as ___ : ALOON
42
Blew a fuse : RAGED
43
Over : ENDED
46
Sprinkle site : CONE
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"___ it" (conversation closer) : SOBE
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Frost relative : DEW
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Streaked : RAN

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1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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