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New York Times, Thursday, January 27, 1994

Author:
Betty Jorgensen
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : Beckoned
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Betty Jorgensen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 70 for Ms. Jorgensen. Thursday freshness: 3%
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V
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U
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O
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K
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© 1994, The New York Times1/27/94 ( No. 16,151 )
Across
1
Beckoned : BADE
5
Arroyo : WADI
9
Edith Evans, e.g. : DAME
13
Travel writer Thollander : EARL
14
Arrangement containers : VASES
15
Enthralled : AGOG
16
Start of a quip : THESMITHYMAKING
19
"___ was saying..." : ASI
20
"Women Who Run With the Wolves" author : ESTES
21
Appearance : LOOKS
22
Stipple : DOT
23
Rent out : LET
24
Quip, part 2 : HARDWAREFORANEW
33
Punts, e.g. : BOATS
34
Out of place : UNAPT
35
"Bleak House" girl : ADA
36
Moons : ORBS
37
TV adjusters : KNOBS
38
Court score : ADIN
39
1959 Kingston Trio hit : MTA
40
___ nous : ENTRE
41
In reserve : ONICE
42
Quip, part 3 : BATHROOMREPORTS
45
Stable particle : OAT
46
Super Bowl QB Dawson : LEN
47
"Kenilworth" novelist : SCOTT
50
"Luck and Pluck" writer : ALGER
53
As well : TOO
56
End of the quip : HESFORGINGAHEAD
59
A Guthrie : ARLO
60
Marshal : ARRAY
61
Other : ELSE
62
Jim Morrison, e.g. : DOOR
63
Nanny, perhaps : GOAT
64
Home bodies? : PETS
Down
1
Kind of star : BETA
2
Comments to a doctor : AAHS
3
Half of sechs : DREI
4
High ways? : ELS
5
Bulb measure : WATT
6
Court V.I.P. Arthur : ASHE
7
Tunisian rulers, once : DEYS
8
Theory : ISM
9
Lennon's last home, with "The" : DAKOTA
10
Exchange premium : AGIO
11
One of Chaucer's travelers : MONK
12
Hash-house order : EGGS
14
Horizon, maybe : VISTA
17
Persian cries : MEOWS
18
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed : ALERT
22
Silent-spring causers : DDTS
23
More than snips : LOPS
24
Frightful force : HBOMB
25
It comes from the heart : AORTA
26
Capital on the Bou Regreg river : RABAT
27
Reach in total : RUNTO
28
Vast, in the past : ENORM
29
Name on a pencil : FABER
30
Point of greatest despair : NADIR
31
Order : EDICT
32
Decreases : WANES
37
Puzzle : KNOT
38
Betimes : ANON
40
Woman with a lyre : ERATO
41
"Siegfried," e.g. : OPERA
43
Lusting after : HOTFOR
44
Thomas Gray piece : ELEGY
47
A herring : SHAD
48
Mackerel-like fish : CERO
49
Ibsen's home : OSLO
50
Farming prefix : AGRO
51
Turkish money : LIRA
52
Backbiter? : GNAT
53
Prefix with port or play : TELE
54
Drying oven : OAST
55
Hugo works : ODES
57
Piano tune : RAG
58
Up on : HEP

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

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