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New York Times, Friday, December 8, 1995

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Will Shortz
48-Across : Big name in trains
TotalDebutLatest
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Frances Hansen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 88 for Ms. Hansen. Friday freshness: 31%
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© 1995, The New York Times12/8/95 ( No. 16,831 )
Across
1
Gulf sheikdom : BAHRAIN
5
Ship deck : ORLOP
10
City shortage in bad weather : CABS
14
"The Time Machine" race : ELOI
15
Like an ingénue : NAIVE
16
Garfield's foil, in the comics : ODIE
17
Pick up, as interest : EARN
18
Reached, in a way : GOTAT
19
English estate feature : MAZE
20
Peals : RINGSOUT
22
Came down in buckets : TEEMED
24
Aloofness : CHILL
25
Vegetates : EXISTS
26
Site of Gen. Wainwright's stand : BATAAN
29
Friesland Museum site : EMDEN
31
Bust ___ (laugh hard) : AGUT
32
Dotty : GAGA
34
"Understood" : ROGER
38
Ballet ___ : RUSSE
40
Like a whiz kid : BRAINY
41
Bridal veil material, often : TULLE
42
Mending process, informally : REHAB
43
Without delay : ASAP
45
Wee one : TYKE
46
False : NOTSO
48
Big name in trains : LIONEL
50
Hawk : PEDDLE
53
Hardly erudite material : FLUFF
55
Evangeline's home : ACADIA
56
Make hospital-clean : SANITIZE
60
Movie dog : TOTO
61
Pirate's "last mile" : PLANK
63
Climax : HEAD
64
Viking prince of Kiev : OLEG
65
Scale unit : OUNCE
66
First name in whodunits : ERLE
67
Capone's nemesis : NESS
68
Helped, with "over" : TIDED
69
Prince ___ : RAINIER
Down
1
Suds : BEER
2
Jai ___ : ALAI
3
Telephone, slangily : HORN
4
5
Like some investigations : ONGOING
6
French artist Dufy : RAOUL
7
Land's components, in a children's verse : LITTLEGRAINSOFSAND
8
Genetic lab supplies : OVA
9
Canoodled : PETTED
10
Sensible people do it : COMEINOUTOFTHERAIN
11
Hemingway's Nick : ADAMS
12
"Les pêcheurs de perles" composer : BIZET
13
Starting points : SEEDS
21
___ Na Na : SHA
23
Wield : EXERT
26
Roseanne, once : BARR
27
Jungle fever : AGUE
28
"Oh, pshaw!" : TUSH
30
Poet Angelou : MAYA
33
"___ le roi!" (1792 cry) : ABAS
35
"Three Weeks" author Elinor : GLYN
36
Sommer of "The Prize" : ELKE
37
Stagger : REEL
39
Levi's "Christ Stopped at ___" : EBOLI
44
Put (down) : PLUNKED
47
It's left holding the bag : TEAPOT
49
"As ___ care!" : IFI
50
"Too Late the Phalarope" writer : PATON
51
Élève's place : ECOLE
52
Circled items : DATES
54
Tilting weapon : LANCE
57
"___ son salita" (Puccini aria) : IERI
58
Middleweight champ Tony : ZALE
59
Fulda tributary : EDER
62
Elle's partner : LUI

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

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