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New York Times, Tuesday, October 11, 1994

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Cheap liquor
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Bernice Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 37 Missing: {QX} Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. Minimum word length: 4 This is puzzle # 128 for Ms. Gordon. Tuesday freshness: 55%
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L
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© 1994, The New York Times10/11/94 ( No. 16,408 )
Across
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Man with a whale of a tale? : JONAH
6
Texas city : WACO
10
Invoice stamp : PAID
14
Tickle one's fancy : AMUSE
15
Shah's land : IRAN
16
Columnist Bombeck : ERMA
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Doctor : MEDIC
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Pay no ___ : MIND
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Actor Richard : EGAN
20
Cheap liquor : SNEAKYPETE
22
Unmixed : PURE
23
Go on : LAST
24
Emotional period : CRISIS
26
Airplane engine : RAMJET
30
Kind of booth or opposition : TOKEN
32
Basso Pinza : EZIO
33
Ishmael's son-in-law : ESAU
35
Obvious onlooker : OGLER
39
Most bounteous : FULLEST
41
Make good as new : RESTORE
43
Fairy tale villain : TROLL
44
Toward sunrise : EAST
46
Award given by The Village Voice : OBIE
47
TV's "The ___ and the Restless" : YOUNG
49
Marzipan base : ALMOND
51
Children, in English dialect : BAIRNS
54
Pro ___ : RATA
56
Cartoonist Peter : ARNO
57
Fair : EVENSTEVEN
63
Pharmacist's sale : DRUG
64
Fizzled out : DIED
65
Oil, in Orleans : HUILE
66
Quayle's successor : GORE
67
"___dust shall thou return" : UNTO
68
Rub out : ERASE
69
Water pitcher : EWER
70
Like Franklin's Richard : POOR
71
Did a cobbler's job : SOLED
Down
1
Tight spots : JAMS
2
Sign to heed : OMEN
3
Manet's "Olympia," e.g. : NUDE
4
30% of the world : ASIA
5
Badger, as a speaker : HECKLE
6
Non-macho men : WIMPS
7
Piece for Pavarotti : ARIETTA
8
Isn't able to : CANT
9
Next up : ONDECK
10
Voyeur : PEEPINGTOM
11
Monster with 100 eyes : ARGUS
12
Pottery from Japan : IMARI
13
They may be great : DANES
21
"Rawhide" role for Eastwood : YATES
25
Antique autos : REOS
26
Plundered, old-style : REFT
27
Mediterranean's Cote d'___ : AZUR
28
"Venus de ___" : MILO
29
Flag for Captain Kidd : JOLLYROGER
31
Not theirs : OURS
34
W.W. II gun : STEN
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The gray wolf : LOBO
37
Actress Moran : ERIN
38
Marsh plant : REED
40
North Carolina school : ELON
42
States, in St. Lo : ETATS
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Accept : AGREETO
48
Gone : USEDUP
50
Carpenters' machines : LATHES
51
Sheriff's star : BADGE
52
Symbol of straightness : ARROW
53
Get used (to) : INURE
55
Dual conjunction : ANDOR
58
Italian wine : VINO
59
Prefix with centric : EURO
60
Poison holder : VIAL
61
Other : ELSE
62
Want : NEED

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

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