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New York Times, Thursday, December 2, 1993

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
68-Across : Ocean areas
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
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Richard Silvestri

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQXY} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 47 for Mr. Silvestri. Thursday freshness: 2%
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© 1993, The New York Times12/2/93 ( No. 16,095 )
Across
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Obsolete : DATED
6
Serpent song : HISS
10
Up to snuff : ABLE
14
Type type : ELITE
15
Put a stake on the table : ANTE
16
Mr. Kadiddlehopper : CLEM
17
Campaign-poster word : ELECT
18
Night light : STAR
19
Litter littlest : RUNT
20
Marquis de Sade's favorite side dish? : MASHEDPOTATOES
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Before, to bards : ERE
24
Grandiose poetry : EPOS
25
Wound reminder : SCAR
28
Lingerie buy : BRA
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Undiminished : ENTIRE
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Start of M-G-M's motto : ARS
36
Pop singer Abdul : PAULA
38
Seven-time N.L. homer champ : KINER
39
Marquis de Sade's favorite entree? : BATTEREDCHICKEN
42
Start of the ano : ENERO
43
Begin, as winds : SETIN
44
Morn's opposite : EVE
45
Wanted-poster word : REWARD
47
Snitch : RAT
48
Shelley output : ODES
49
Lab bottle : VIAL
51
Former Mideast monogram : UAR
53
Marquis de Sade's favorite vegetable? : CREAMEDSPINACH
60
Ambition : GOAL
61
At the summit of : ATOP
62
More than manly : MACHO
63
Move like the Blob : OOZE
64
A little : SOME
65
Cultural characteristics : ETHOS
66
Ran in the laundry : BLED
67
Had no doubt : KNEW
68
Ocean areas : DEEPS
Down
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Regard : DEEM
2
___ breve (2/2 time) : ALLA
3
Dad's Day gifts : TIES
4
Whistler was one : ETCHER
5
Dissuade : DETER
6
Fastening device : HASP
7
'85. film, "___ the Night" : INTO
8
Washington, e.g. : STATE
9
Ranchero's wrap : SERAPE
10
Verse with a message? : ACROSTIC
11
In a funk : BLUE
12
Brownie's eye? : LENS
13
CPR specialists : EMT
21
Interdict : DEBAR
22
Hanoi's region : TONKIN
25
Fencing weapon : SABER
26
Brom Bones's prey : CRANE
27
In ___ (agitated) : ASTEW
29
Has misgivings about : RUES
30
Birch kin : ALDER
32
Readied the press : INKED
33
Christopher of the screen : REEVE
34
Crossword birds : ERNES
36
"Will it play in ___?" : PEORIA
37
Official records : ACTA
40
Made a basketball boo-boo : TRAVELED
41
Ask for a loan : HITUP
46
Upholstery fabric : DAMASK
48
Baroque : ORNATE
50
Admit : LETON
52
Aligned the cross hairs : AIMED
53
Air-conditioned : COOL
54
Bulldoze : RAZE
55
Igloo shape : DOME
56
Gush forth : SPEW
57
Need a backrub : ACHE
58
Karate motion : CHOP
59
Ponderosa name : HOSS
60
Lump : GOB

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

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