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New York Times, Tuesday, December 27, 1994

Author:
Ernie Furtado
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Shady
TotalDebutLatest
3011/5/198612/13/1995
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
5734245
RebusCircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
111.47711837%
Ernie Furtado

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 42 Missing: {JQVX} This is puzzle # 24 for Mr. Furtado. Tuesday freshness: 97%
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© 1994, The New York Times12/27/94 ( No. 16,485 )
Across
1
B followers : CDE
4
Philippine island : SAMAR
9
Writer LeShan : EDA
12
Penned : WROTE
14
Thin pancake : CREPE
15
Campaign donor, for short : PAC
16
Have airs, like Rover? : PUTONTHEDOG
18
Dockers' org. : ILA
19
Gleaming : ASHINE
20
Shady : ILLICIT
22
Washington's Mount St. ___ : HELENS
24
Director Fred et al. : COES
25
Have it rough, like Asta? : LEADADOGSLIFE
30
"___ make myself clear?" : DOI
32
Hockey feint : DEKE
33
Art school subj. : ANAT
34
Author Ferber : EDNA
36
Transplant : REPOT
39
Goods: Abbr. : MDSE
40
Sleeps in a sitting position : NODS
41
Spanish other : OTRA
43
Tom Jones's "___ Not Unusual" : ITS
44
Get Marmaduke's reaction? : TRYITONTHEDOG
49
Rock's ___ Straits : DIRE
50
Clothes : ENDUES
52
Patron of France : STDENIS
55
Remedial workshop : CLINIC
57
Inventor's cry : AHA
58
Visit the pound? : GOTOTHEDOGS
61
Dickens pen name : BOZ
62
"Oklahoma!" aunt : ELLER
63
Relaxing bath : SAUNA
64
Afore : ERE
65
Plow man : DEERE
66
180° from NNW : SSE
Down
1
Teen love : CRUSH
2
Jitterbug : DOTHELINDY
3
Prima ballerina : ETOILE
4
Acad. or univ. : SCH
5
"___ you for real?" : ARE
6
Doc : MEDICO
7
Moral fable: Var. : APOLOG
8
Sliding-door grooves : REGLES
9
Of great size : EPIC
10
Mustachioed artist : DALI
11
"___ may look on a king" : ACAT
12
F.D.R. program : WPA
13
Group of nine : ENNEAD
17
Proffer : TENDER
21
Ali's faith : ISLAM
23
Benefit : SAKE
26
Station : DEPOT
27
Native : INDIGENOUS
28
Eschew food : FAST
29
Hot times in Saint-Tropez : ETES
30
Fender bender : DENT
31
Skunk's defense : ODOR
35
Stage mutter : ASIDE
37
Will-___-wisp : OTHE
38
Soldier's line of defense : TRENCH
42
Discombobulates : ADDLES
45
Imparted a slight taste to : TINGED
46
Baltimore bird : ORIOLE
47
Get cozy : NESTLE
48
"A Dog of Flanders" author et al. : OUIDAS
51
Actress ___ Hasso : SIGNE
52
Kemo ___ (trusty scout) : SABE
53
Air Force missile : THOR
54
Flabbergast : DAZE
56
Inits. for R.E. Lee : CSA
59
"___ the ramparts..." : OER
60
Uno + due : TRE

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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