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New York Times, Friday, October 27, 1995

Author:
Mark Diehl
Editor:
Will Shortz
19-Across : Ancestry
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
7711/11/19841/22/20233
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3214720373
RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
31.57592888%
Mark Diehl

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FJQX} This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Diehl. Friday freshness: 91%
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© 1995, The New York Times10/27/95 ( No. 16,789 )
Across
1
Electron grabbers : ANODES
7
"___ Next Door" (1944 tune) : THEBOY
13
Neighbor of Brazil : SURINAM
15
Direct route : BEELINE
16
Sight from Diamond Head : WAIKIKI
17
Checks (in) : REPORTS
18
Cape ___ : ANN
19
Ancestry : DESCENT
21
See 1 Down : DAM
22
They've earned their stripes: Abbr. : NCOS
24
Cowpuncher's worry : STRAY
25
Paris's Cimetière du ___ Lachaise : PERE
26
Continental money : ECUS
28
Munch : EAT
29
Emulsifying agent : ALGIN
30
Winner of five 1965 Oscars : DOCTORZHIVAGO
33
Persevered : CARRIEDON
34
Show disdain : THUMBONESNOSE
38
Swimming hazard : CRAMP
39
"___ doll..." : BEA
40
Tried to get back at : SUED
41
Seder mainstay : LAMB
42
"Magister Ludi" author : HESSE
44
Highlands attire : TAMS
46
Draft ___ : ALE
47
Long-haired cat : PERSIAN
49
Set : GEL
50
Projecting : SALIENT
52
One in a Red Cross shelter : EVACUEE
54
Tricky pitches : SLIDERS
55
Successfully counterattack : REPULSE
56
Bed cover : CANOPY
57
Young food-fish : SAMLET
Down
1
With 21 Across, 1960's construction marvel : ASWAN
2
Subtle : NUANCED
3
Part of the Venezuela-Colombia border : ORINOCO
4
Cartoonist Browne : DIK
5
Tennyson heroine : ENID
6
Sushi chasers : SAKES
7
Minuscule : TEENY
8
Numerical prefix : HEPT
9
"Xanadu" band : ELO
10
Audubon specimen : BIRDEGG
11
Sackets Harbor's lake : ONTARIO
12
Boss pleasers : YESMEN
14
Fonda title role : MISTERROBERTS
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20
Pure bedlam : CRAZINESS
23
Give in : SUCCUMB
25
Think through : PLANOUT
27
It may travel first-class : STAMP
29
Several English rivers : AVONS
31
Regalia item : ORB
32
Tags : IDS
34
Vocal filler : TRALALA
35
Rat-infested burg : HAMELIN
36
Jonathan, for one : SEAGULL
37
1985 Reagan appointee : EDMEESE
38
Third-rate : CLASSC
42
Dennis the Menace's dad : HENRY
43
Housing projects? : EAVES
45
Driving hazard : SLEET
47
Slight complaint : PEEP
48
Wine valley : NAPA
51
"Yes," in church : IDO
53
Word of honor? : CUM

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

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