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New York Times, Friday, January 27, 1995

Author:
Chuck Deodene
Editor:
Will Shortz
18-Across : About: Abbr.
TotalDebutLatest
4211/16/19942/26/2021
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02398128
CircleScrabDebutFresh
31.5824265%
Chuck Deodene

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 40 Missing: {W} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Deodene. Friday freshness: 26%
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© 1995, The New York Times1/27/95 ( No. 16,516 )
Across
1
Lie poolside : BASK
5
Love of Lucy : DESI
9
Author ___ Gallant : MAVIS
14
Anderson of TV sitcoms : LONI
15
Nerve impulse conduit : AXON
16
Shelley's "Adonais," e.g. : ELEGY
17
Faulkner's "Requiem for ___" : ANUN
18
About: Abbr. : CIRC
19
Being male or female : SEXED
20
Rolling Stones album of 1968 : BEGGARSBANQUET
23
Word with coin or time : SLOT
24
Handily subdues : ROUTS
25
Newly arrived : JUSTIN
28
Pros' foes : ANTIS
29
Handel opera : EZIO
30
Leaf : BRACT
31
Big sandwich name : MAC
34
Niven film of 1937 : DINNERATTHERITZ
38
British verb ending : ISE
39
Limerick, e.g. : VERSE
40
Zeno of ___ (Greek logician) : ELEA
41
Like a fair lass : BONNY
42
Promoter of rooster fights : COCKER
44
Tipsy : OILED
45
Blacken : CHAR
46
Hemingway memoir : AMOVEABLEFEAST
51
Cremona product : AMATI
52
Pulitzer-winning writer Sheehan : NEIL
53
Compatriot : ALLY
54
Neighbor of Nigeria : BENIN
55
Where water turned to wine : CANA
56
Rend : TEAR
57
On, as medication : USING
58
Skirt : EDGE
59
Canadian baseballer : EXPO
Down
1
Spill the beans : BLAB
2
Top-of-the-line : AONE
3
Comfy : SNUG
4
Caribbean capital : KINGSTON
5
Clothing tag name : DACRON
6
Live and breathe : EXIST
7
Soak up : SORB
8
Personified : INCARNATE
9
Smokehouse flavoring : MESQUITE
10
Seal hunters : ALEUTS
11
Nettles : VEXES
12
"___ it!" ("Eureka!") : IGET
13
Baseball exec Thrift : SYD
21
Star of "The Greatest" : ALI
22
Chalk up : NOTCH
25
Skywalker, e.g. : JEDI
26
Terrorists' tools : UZIS
27
Kind of curve : SINE
28
Affected : ARTSY
30
Hoedown : BARNDANCE
31
Exploit : MILK
32
Fitting phrase ending : ATEE
33
All-powerful one : CZAR
35
Not fixed : EVOLVING
36
1966 hit "Walk Away ___" : RENEE
37
Stage anew : RECREATE
41
A B vitamin : BIOTIN
42
Pincers : CHELAE
43
Big galoot : OAF
44
Sultan Qabus bin Said, e.g. : OMANI
45
Adhere : CLING
46
City on the Skunk River : AMES
47
Bit of wampum : BEAD
48
"A Clockwork Orange" droogie : ALEX
49
Strike : SLAP
50
Neophyte : TYRO
51
___ Bakr (first caliph of Mecca) : ABU

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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