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New York Times, Wednesday, October 1, 1997

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
40-Across : "Go and catch a falling star" poet
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQUZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 19 for Ms. Gorski. Wednesday freshness: 58%
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© 1997, The New York Times10/1/97 ( No. 17,494 )
Across
1
Zoning unit, maybe : ACRE
5
Comic Bill, familiarly : COS
8
Reception improver : CABLE
13
Cartoonist Addams : CHAS
14
"Critique of Practical Reason" writer : KANT
15
Heavenly hunter : ORION
16
Work between jobs : TEMP
17
Brainstorm : IDEA
18
Communion offering : BREAD
19
1929 Hemingway book, with "A" : FAREWELLTOARMS
22
Sign by a door : EXIT
23
Serpentlike : EELY
24
Toots one's horn : BOASTS
27
K-O bridge : LMN
28
Car launched by an aeronautics company : SAAB
32
Come up : ARISE
33
Vegans avoid these : MEATS
35
Constructor of many dams: Abbr. : TVA
36
1950 Jean Simmons film : SOLONGATTHEFAIR
39
São Paulo-to-Rio dir. : ENE
40
"Go and catch a falling star" poet : DONNE
41
Checked, as a computer program : RERAN
42
___ bird : DODO
44
God, in Roma : DIO
45
Tubs : BASINS
46
50% : HALF
48
Accounting, e.g.: Abbr. : DEPT
49
1934 James Hilton novella : GOODBYEMRCHIPS
55
Cruising : ATSEA
56
Good, long bath : SOAK
57
Colorado resort : VAIL
59
Philanthropist Wallace and others : LILAS
60
Spinners : TOPS
61
___ time (never) : ATNO
62
Accompanying music : SCORE
63
Auden's "To My Pupils," e.g. : ODE
64
Ponce's birthplace : LEON
Down
1
Play the part : ACT
2
Child, for one : CHEF
3
Avatar of Vishnu : RAMA
4
Coffee bar order : ESPRESSO
5
Citadel student : CADET
6
First-year Harvard law student : ONEL
7
Draw : STALEMATE
8
Some computer programs are written in it : COBOL
9
Groupings : ARRAYS
10
Oktoberfest draft : BIER
11
Rich soil : LOAM
12
Wraps up : ENDS
14
Fuzzy fruit : KIWIS
20
Lengthen : EXTEND
21
Final Commandment : TENTH
24
Stationed : BASED
25
Maine college town : ORONO
26
Had the bug : AILED
27
"...___ man put asunder" : LETNO
29
Arcade name : ATARI
30
Birdy : AVIAN
31
Old dance sites : BARNS
33
Declaration : MANIFESTO
34
Angel : SERAPH
37
Pious : GODLY
38
Mostly Mozart, for one : FESTIVAL
43
"My!" : OHDEAR
45
Pub order : BECKS
47
Put down : ABASE
48
Hang : DRAPE
49
Guys' dates : GALS
50
Ear-related : OTIC
51
European port : OSLO
52
"___ Indigo" : MOOD
53
Fancy chopped liver : PATE
54
Chinese: Prefix : SINO
58
First name in horror films : LON

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1 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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