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New York Times, Monday, January 23, 1995

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Will Shortz
27-Across : Lost Ark seekers?
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Sidney L. Robbins

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JKQUXZ} This is puzzle # 173 for Mr. Robbins. Monday freshness: 8%
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© 1995, The New York Times1/23/95 ( No. 16,512 )
Across
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This might be a lot : ACRE
5
Paradigm : MODEL
10
Sprite : ELF
13
Word after long or dog : EARED
14
Fragrance : AROMA
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Compete : VIE
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Sydney of "The Maltese Falcon" : GREENSTREET
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Lady of Eden : EVE
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Added too many pounds : GOTFAT
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Displayed contempt : SNEERED
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Snick's partner : SNEE
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Burglarize : ROB
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Bummer : DRAG
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Lost Ark seekers? : RAIDERS
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Snatch : GRAB
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Where to hang one's hat : PEG
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"Carmen" or "Aida" : OPERA
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Moline manufacturer : DEERE
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Alluring woman : SIREN
40
Despondent : SAD
41
Upright : ERECT
42
Goodnight lass : IRENE
43
Steps over a fence : STILE
45
Hush-hush govt. org. : NSA
46
Gardener's item : SEED
47
___ Palace : CAESARS
49
Cape Canaveral org. : NASA
51
Hardly bold : SHY
52
Sandy's barks : ARFS
56
Interviewer Barbara : WALTERS
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Restaurant : EATERY
61
Levin who wrote "Deathtrap" : IRA
62
"Of Thee I Sing" role : WINTERGREEN
65
Kind of horn : TIN
66
It's enough to bring a tear to the eye : ONION
67
Swiftness : HASTE
68
Owned : HAD
69
Neck parts : NAPES
70
Steps on the evolutionary ladder : APES
Down
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Baseball's Hank : AARON
2
Minotaur's home : CRETE
3
Short jacket : REEFER
4
Poet Millay : EDNA
5
Welcome giver? : MAT
6
Bruin Bobby : ORR
7
Accomplishes : DOES
8
Corrects : EMENDS
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Afterward : LATER
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Landscaping item : EVERGREEN
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As we speak : LIVE
12
Oats, e.g. : FEED
13
Urges, with "on" : EGGS
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Undress : STRIP
21
Anxious : EAGER
24
Texas city : ODESSA
25
Scolds : BERATES
28
Top-notch : AONE
29
Red vegetable : RADISH
31
Firecracker paths : ARCS
32
Obsolescent VCR format : BETA
33
Letters before omegas : PSIS
34
Cork's site : EIRE
35
It was colonized circa A.D. 986 : GREENLAND
37
Fawn or doe : DEER
39
"This foolishness must ___ once!" : ENDAT
44
Kind of cake : LAYER
47
Canopus's constellation : CARINA
48
Minor despot : SATRAP
50
Affix, as a button : SEWON
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Della of pop : REESE
54
Stews : FRETS
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"Auld Lang ___" : SYNE
56
Accompanying : WITH
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Coloratura's piece : ARIA
58
Cut : SNIP
60
Turkish honcho : AGHA
63
Shoe part : TOE
64
Printers' measures : ENS

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

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