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New York Times, Wednesday, December 8, 1993

Author:
Norma Steinberg
Editor:
Will Shortz
40-Across : Embroider
TotalDebutLatest
5212/7/19824/11/2005
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
7141210351
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.57473513%
Norma Steinberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 44 Missing: {JKQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 36 for Ms. Steinberg. Wednesday freshness: 9%
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P
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© 1993, The New York Times12/8/93 ( No. 16,101 )
Across
1
Outlet center? : PLUG
5
Wheat ___ (crackers) : THINS
10
Stick around : STAY
14
The last Mrs. Chaplin : OONA
15
Storyteller of old Greece : AESOP
16
Opening for a sweat bead : PORE
17
Ballerina's skirt : TUTU
18
Strainer : SIEVE
19
Novelist Murdoch : IRIS
20
Colonist's command : DONTTREADONME
23
"Piggies" : TOES
24
Have a hunch : FEEL
25
Like crazy : MADLY
28
Waikiki dances : HULAS
31
Dungeons & Dragons beast : OGRE
32
Row, e.g. : PROPEL
34
School grp. : PTA
37
Judy Garland's command : MEETMEINSTLOUIS
40
Embroider : SEW
41
Bowling lanes : ALLEYS
42
The hunted : PREY
43
Feeds the flame : FUELS
44
___Haute, Ind. : TERRE
45
Thursday's eponym : THOR
47
In a mo : SOON
49
February command : BEMYVALENTINE
55
Invitation word : COME
56
Heretofore mentioned : ABOVE
57
Congressman Gingrich : NEWT
59
___ even keel : ONAN
60
Basic belief : TENET
61
Ballooned : GREW
62
Took off : WENT
63
Shorthand, for short : STENO
64
Fair to middlin' : SOSO
Down
1
Kitty : POT
2
Musical forte? : LOUD
3
Golden rule word : UNTO
4
Knight's glove : GAUNTLET
5
Discrimination : TASTE
6
Will-reading attendees : HEIRS
7
"Um-hmm" : ISEE
8
Award-winning science show : NOVA
9
Expedited : SPED
10
Places for titles : SPINES
11
"The Velvet Fog" : TORME
12
"The Little Mermaid" : ARIEL
13
Sandburg's "The People, ___" : YES
21
1982 Pryor film, with "The" : TOY
22
Best ___ : OFALL
25
May honorees : MOMS
26
"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" author : AGEE
27
Columnist Pearson : DREW
28
Sharpens : HONES
29
___-daisy : UPSY
30
O.K.'S : LETS
32
Athlete from Tres Coracoes, Brazil : PELE
33
Brooklet : RILL
34
Good engine sound : PURR
35
Level : TIER
36
"___sow..." : ASYE
38
TV host Povich : MAURY
39
Job vacancies : OPENINGS
43
Incite : FOMENT
44
Candidate for day care : TOT
45
Butcher's cut : TBONE
46
Rambo, e.g. : HEMAN
47
Early evening : SEVEN
48
___ a customer : ONETO
50
Winery fixtures : VATS
51
Drive the get-away car, maybe : ABET
52
Sole : LONE
53
Claudius's adopted son : NERO
54
Sheepcote matriarchs : EWES
55
Intimidate : COW
58
Brace : TWO

Answer summary:
2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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