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New York Times, Tuesday, January 18, 1994

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : Crocus bulb
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Joy L. Wouk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJKQXZ} Spans: 3 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 126 for Ms. Wouk. Tuesday freshness: 69%
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© 1994, The New York Times1/18/94 ( No. 16,142 )
Across
1
Crocus bulb : CORM
5
"Son of the Sun" : INCA
9
Set-to : SCRAP
14
Pastiche : OLIO
15
Score in pinochle : MELD
16
"A house is not ___" : AHOME
17
Restaurant request : MENU
18
Vessel for Jill : PAIL
19
"Anticipation" singer : SIMON
20
Song by 11-Down : MISSMARMELSTEIN
23
Vinegary : ACETIC
24
Scottish hillside : BRAE
25
Westernmost Aleutian : ATTU
27
A clef : TREBLE
32
Unsettle? : EVICT
35
Scruff : NAPE
38
"Aeneid" locale : TROY
39
Musical or song by 11 -Down : WISHYOUWEREHERE
42
Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
43
Rows before P : LMNO
44
Gorky's "The ___ Depths" : LOWER
45
Had a hunch : SENSED
47
Carol : NOEL
49
Daffy Duck talk : LISP
52
Bedtime annoyances : SNORES
56
Song by 11-Down : WHENWEMEETAGAIN
61
Mercutio's friend : ROMEO
62
Cigar's end : ETTE
63
Prefix with China : INDO
64
An acid : AMINO
65
Alert : WARN
66
Ending with gang or mob : STER
67
Guided a raft : POLED
68
Kane's Rosebud : SLED
69
Libel, e.g. : TORT
Down
1
Pause sign : COMMA
2
Relating to C18H3402 : OLEIC
3
Dyeing instruction : RINSE
4
Some handlebars : MOUSTACHES
5
Collision : IMPACT
6
Circa : NEAR
7
Mountaineer : CLIMB
8
Psychiatrist Alfred : ADLER
9
Tennessee Senator Jim : SASSER
10
l.O.U. : CHIT
11
Late, great composer : ROME
12
Mine: Fr. : AMOI
13
"State of Grace" star : PENN
21
Thurber's Walter : MITTY
22
Informal goodbye : LATER
26
Word on a coin : UNUM
28
Student of animal behavior : ETHOLOGIST
29
Make coffee : BREW
30
Knowledge : LORE
31
Spectator : EYER
32
Farm mothers : EWES
33
Base : VILE
34
"The doctor ___" : ISIN
36
Barley beard : AWN
37
Exploited worker : PEON
40
It may be golden : OLDIE
41
Actress Verdugo : ELENA
46
Friend of Harvey the rabbit : ELWOOD
48
Belgian port : OSTEND
50
Mergansers' kin : SMEWS
51
Perfumery bit : PETAL
53
Showed allegiance, in a way : RANTO
54
Downy bird : EIDER
55
Stable sound : SNORT
56
Envelop : WRAP
57
Our genus : HOMO
58
Biographer Ludwig : EMIL
59
Hawaiian honker : NENE
60
To be, to Henri : ETRE

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