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New York Times, Monday, October 16, 1995

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
24-Across : Unpleasant-tasting
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Bernice Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQWX} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 132 for Ms. Gordon. Monday freshness: 96%
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P
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R
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E
4
P
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M
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O
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O
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D
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S
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K
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O
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O
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K
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I
O
L
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O
P
R
A
H
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I
N
G
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T
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D
D
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G
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E
B
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S
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F
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I
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E
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S
K
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T
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R
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A
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N
C
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D
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A
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D
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Z
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E
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T
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A
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A
N
I
T
A
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A
S
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O
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R
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D
O
N
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S
E
C
O
N
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D
T
H
E
M
O
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T
I
O
N
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P
R
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T
A
P
E
D
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L
O
T
T
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S
A
R
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K
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T
A
N
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S
L
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Y
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I
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C
E
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B
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A
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M
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O
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L
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L
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S
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C
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I
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F
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M
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N
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A
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N
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T
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Y
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© 1995, The New York Times10/16/95 ( No. 16,778 )
Across
1
___ school (precollege institution) : PREP
5
General attitudes : MOODS
10
Screwball : KOOK
14
Captive of Hercules : IOLE
15
TV's Winfrey : OPRAH
16
"Bus Stop" writer : INGE
17
Serious injury from fire : THIRDDEGREEBURN
20
Marine growths : SEAFERNS
21
Garden flowers : IRISES
22
Preceding nights : EVES
23
A bit of vaudeville : SKIT
24
Unpleasant-tasting : RANCID
27
Lend a hand : AID
28
Epsilon's follower : ZETA
32
Santa ___ race track : ANITA
33
Fur trader John Jacob : ASTOR
35
Put on : DON
36
Support, at a meeting : SECONDTHEMOTION
39
Before: Prefix : PRE
40
Recorded : TAPED
41
One way to get rich : LOTTO
42
Cutty ___ : SARK
44
Light brown : TAN
45
Half-melted : SLUSHY
46
Cake decorator : ICER
48
Galoot : BOOR
49
Nonethical : AMORAL
52
Bands of nerve fibers : LEMNISCI
56
Lasting memory, maybe : FIRSTIMPRESSION
58
Novelist Waugh : ALEC
59
Africa's third-longest river : NIGER
60
Jog : TROT
61
___ ha-Shanah : ROSH
62
Chirac's states : ETATS
63
"Gimme an A...", e.g. : YELL
Down
1
Quarries : PITS
2
Architect Mies van der ___ : ROHE
3
"Essays of ___" : ELIA
4
Tapered cigar : PERFECTO
5
King Arthur's killer : MODRED
6
Unfolds : OPENS
7
Assns. : ORGS
8
Patriotic soc. : DAR
9
Arab land : SHEIKDOM
10
Advise at cards : KIBITZ
11
Blame : ONUS
12
Bugaboo : OGRE
13
Actors Olin and Berry : KENS
18
Nonconformist : DEVIANT
19
Aria, "___ tu" : ERI
23
Located : SITED
24
Says hoarsely : RASPS
25
End of ___ : ANERA
26
More appealing : NICER
27
Pale-faced : ASHEN
29
Blue-pencils : EDITS
30
Fairy item : TOOTH
31
Pester : ANNOY
33
How some stocks are sold : ATPAR
34
Alternatives to sprays : ROLLONS
37
It runs down the 180th meridian : DATELINE
38
Like resort towns : TOURISTY
43
Dry, colorless brandy : KIRSCH
45
Suzanne of "Three's Company" : SOMERS
47
Tabby : CAT
48
Cap in Cannes : BERET
49
Come from ___ : AFAR
50
Venus de ___ : MILO
51
Mine rocks : ORES
52
Grp. for Nancy Lopez : LPGA
53
Father : SIRE
54
Refrigerate : COOL
55
U.N.-like : INTL
57
Cal Tech rival : MIT

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

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