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New York Times, Monday, October 24, 1994

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Across : Electrical units
TotalDebutLatest
2033/27/19742/8/1999
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.47891535%
Sidney L. Robbins

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJKQWX} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 166 for Mr. Robbins. Monday freshness: 6%
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© 1994, The New York Times10/24/94 ( No. 16,421 )
Across
1
"My Fair Lady" miss : ELIZA
6
___ Air : BEL
9
Drop explosives on : BOMB
13
Sal, in song : MYGAL
14
King topper : ACE
15
Kind of eclipse : LUNAR
16
Beethoven classic : MOONLIGHTSONATA
19
Poker opener : ANTE
20
Classic auto : REO
21
Accountants' activities : AUDITS
22
Be under the weather : AIL
23
Electrical units : AMPERES
24
Horizontally : ACROSS
28
Leave the ground : RISE
29
Hint of scandal : TAINT
30
"Gee whiz!" : GOSH
31
Yearn (for) : ACHE
35
38
Jury member : PEER
39
Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
40
Adored : LOVED
41
Mr. Musial : STAN
42
Evaluate : ASSESS
43
Adherents of Allah : MOSLEMS
47
Mine output : ORE
48
Gasoline rating : OCTANE
49
List ender : ETC
50
Native of old Peru : INCA
54
My sweetheart, in an old song : THEMANINTHEMOON
57
Core belief : TENET
58
Unknown John : DOE
59
Street urchin : GAMIN
60
Winged god : EROS
61
Neighbor of Syr. : ISR
62
Portents : OMENS
Down
1
Austen heroine : EMMA
2
City on the Rhone : LYON
3
"___ Rhythm" : IGOT
4
Western novelist Grey : ZANE
5
The whole shebang : ALL
6
Breakfast roll : BAGEL
7
Bounce back : ECHO
8
Tennis call : LET
9
German political groups : BUNDE
10
TV studio light : ONAIR
11
Lusterless finish : MATTE
12
Copper-zinc alloy : BRASS
15
Jeweler's eyeglass : LOUPE
17
Eye part : IRIS
18
Chinese liquor : SAMSHU
22
Spumante city : ASTI
23
Bridal path? : AISLE
24
Upon : ATOP
25
Chaplin trademark : CANE
26
Houston school : RICE
27
Lollapalooza : ONER
28
Batman's partner : ROBIN
30
Swank affairs : GALAS
31
Famous cookie man : AMOS
32
Cabot ___ ("Murder, She Wrote" town) : COVE
33
Works the garden : HOES
34
Pass receivers : ENDS
36
Tennis players : NETMEN
37
Otherwise : ELSE
41
French legislature : SENAT
42
St. Louis landmark : ARCH
43
Grove of trees, in the Southwest : MOTTE
44
Yellow-orange : OCHER
45
Dictation taker : STENO
46
Injures : LAMES
47
Aquatic animal : OTTER
49
Son in Genesis : ENOS
50
Mideastern V.I.P. : IMAM
51
Alaskan city : NOME
52
Originate, as a phrase : COIN
53
Miller and Sothern : ANNS
55
Uganda's Amin : IDI
56
Self : EGO

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1 unique to this puzzle, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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