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New York Times, Saturday, November 26, 1994

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Across : 1985 World Series champs
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Missing: {XZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. Nosowsky. Saturday freshness: 27%
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© 1994, The New York Times11/26/94 ( No. 16,454 )
Across
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Person not to mess with : BLACKBELT
10
___ Barbara : MAJOR
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Brown group : IVYLEAGUE
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Rub off : ERASE
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Protactinium's atomic number : NINETYONE
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___ Barbara : SANTA
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Gaelic "oh my!" : OCH
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Conscious : UNASLEEP
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Like some shampoos : LOWPH
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Holy : BLEST
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Kind of pad : SOS
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Scope : AREA
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Scratchy : COARSE
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Bit of a charge : VOLT
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Firth of Clyde port : AYR
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Bury : ENTOMB
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Catches : ENTRAPS
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Toscanini and others : ARTUROS
39
1985 World Series champs : ROYALS
40
Rep. : AGT
41
French entree : ROTI
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Name of three popes : LUCIUS
44
Part of Q.E.D. : QUOD
45
___ sting : FBI
48
"I Fall to Pieces" singer : CLINE
49
Queer : OUTRE
50
Danger signal : REDALERT
52
Rock's Brian : ENO
53
Quinault's queen of Tyre : ELISE
54
Disciplined : CHASTISED
59
One of the Bowls : ALOHA
60
Tables : LAYSASIDE
61
Person holding a string : KITER
62
Shock : EYEOPENER
Down
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Storage place : BIN
2
Year in Nero's reign : LVI
3
Author Rand : AYN
4
Top film of 1963 : CLEOPATRA
5
Two-master : KETCH
6
Indiana governor Evan : BAYH
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I : EGO
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Crescent-shaped : LUNULAR
9
High school student, informally : TEENER
10
Movable place to eat : MESSTENT
11
Sea into which the Amu Darya flows : ARAL
12
"___ Fighting Ships" (British annual) : JANES
13
Bony opening : OSTEO
14
Gains : REAPS
21
Maintains : ASSERTS
22
Grand Slammer of '62 and '69 : LAVER
23
Town on the Penobscot : ORONO
24
Pulitzer winner for "The Optimist's Daughter" : WELTY
25
"The ___ of Summer" : BOYS
28
Tablet alternative : CAPSULE
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Ring adornment : TURQUOISE
33
"In ___?" : OROUT
34
Kind of mouth or boat : MOTOR
35
It's rarely played : BSIDE
37
Signal that ends 50 Across : ALLCLEAR
38
Bad fit? : AGUE
40
Is of value, in a colloquialism : AINTHAY
43
Club : CIRCLE
45
___ out (lose it) : FREAK
46
Ruby's attorney : BELLI
47
Dimwit : IDIOT
49
In-a-bottle alternative : ONTAP
51
Contemporary of 22 Down : ASHE
52
Renamed oil co. : ESSO
55
O.K. at sea : AYE
56
Go the wrong way : SIN
57
Palindromic city of puzzledom : EDE
58
"___ Ring des Nibelungen" : DER

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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