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New York Times, Friday, January 28, 1994

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
62-Across : Start of a cockney toast
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 39 Missing: {BFGJVX} This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 28%
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P
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© 1994, The New York Times1/28/94 ( No. 16,152 )
Across
1
P's ___(this puzzle's theme) : ANDQS
6
___ happened : ASIT
10
Ewes, e.g. : SHES
14
"Whippersnapper" of films : LARUE
15
Asian princess : RANI
16
Have too little : WANT
17
Landing site : STAIR
18
Poet's inspiration : MUSE
19
Wingate of W.W. II : ORDE
20
Clinch : ICE
21
Jimmy Carter's birthday: Abbr. : OCTI
22
Incense : ODOR
23
Scuttled : SANK
25
Second-row occupant : QUEENSPAWN
27
Warm-up : PREP
28
Slips : ERRATA
29
Compass point : SSE
30
"Enough ___!" : ALREADY
32
Arrange, as the hair : DOUP
34
Nuzzled : NOSED
35
Bird groups : NIDES
39
Conical candy : KISS
42
Circus prop : TRAPEZE
44
Asian honorific : SRI
47
Dig out : ELICIT
49
Kind of doctor : SPIN
50
Lampoon : PASQUINADE
52
Part of 25-Down : QUOD
53
Stadium section : RSTU
54
15th-century date : MCDI
55
Obsolescent : OUT
56
Problem for a masseur : ACHE
57
Word before pittance : MERE
58
Heater setting : DEICE
61
Good source of starch : YAMS
62
Start of a cockney toast : ERES
63
Bewilders : DAZES
64
Letter opening? : SLIT
65
Time out for music : REST
66
Sport with traps : SKEET
Down
1
Roker and others : ALS
2
"Unforgettable" singer : NAT
3
Racks for washed dishes : DRAINERS
4
Glance : QUICKPEEK
5
Decidedly not marshy : SERE
6
Sandhurst arsenal : ARMOURY
7
Sci-fi transport : SAUCER
8
As a proxy : INSTEAD
9
Connect with : TIEINTO
10
Come down in a hurry : SWOOP
11
___ nails : HARDAS
12
Grants, perhaps : ENDOWS
13
"A Sentimental Journey" writer : STERNE
23
Cross : SPAN
24
Alice's chronicler : ARLO
25
Letters of triumph : QED
26
Finnish bath : SAUNA
31
"See you" : ADIEU
33
Runt : PIPSQUEAK
36
Make a substitution? : DEPUTIZE
37
Mary's "South Pacific" co-star : EZIO
38
Post : SEND
40
Weight Watchers member, maybe : SLIMMER
41
Square-dealing : SINCERE
42
Like a #1 housekeeper : TIDIEST
43
Address abbr. : RTE
44
Perfumes : SPRAYS
45
Brat : RASCAL
46
They're bicoastal : ISTHMI
48
Inner circles : CADRES
51
Pursuit : QUEST
55
Tout's topic : ODDS
59
Jay follower? : CEE
60
N.Y.C. zone : EST

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

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