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New York Times, Friday, February 16, 1996

Author:
M. Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
55-Across : Computer programmers
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2548/27/19928/13/20102
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2947154312630
RebusCircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
611.571,613877%
Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 35 Missing: {FJVWZ} Scrabble average: 1.87 This is puzzle # 50 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 97%
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© 1996, The New York Times2/16/96 ( No. 16,901 )
Across
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Fowl entrees : SQUABS
7
Minolta rival : LEICA
12
Fingernail crescent : LUNULA
13
Hard rock : DIAMOND
15
Filmdom's "My Sister___" : EILEEN
16
Duck hunter's scope : GUNRANGE
17
Permanently abroad, maybe : EXILED
18
Load : ONUS
19
Alphabetic run : QRS
20
___-Tiki : KON
21
Games people play : PRANKS
23
Computer function : QUIT
24
When écoles let out : ETES
26
Firefighting equipment : AXES
27
Odd : QUEER
28
Furniture wood source : REDALDER
30
Fred Flintstone's workplace : QUARRY
31
"Joyeux___" : NOEL
32
Actor Ke Huy___ : QUAN
33
Meal maker? : PESTLE
36
Bee workers : QUILTERS
40
Match : EQUAL
41
Thigh muscle, informally : QUAD
42
Without___(riskily) : ANET
43
"Sister Act" extras : NUNS
44
Old and charming : QUAINT
46
Article in Die Welt : DER
47
Tease : RIB
48
One of a fivesome, for short : QUIN
49
Cologne's Church of St.___ : URSULA
51
Milk purchase : ONEQUART
53
Chokers : NOOSES
54
"The Cannonball Run" actor : DELUISE
55
Computer programmers : CODERS
56
Infection cause : STAPH
57
Hardly dense : SPARSE
Down
1
Comparatively smooth : SLEEKER
2
Don of fiction : QUIXOTE
3
Like most stationery : UNLINED
4
"The Mammoth Hunters" author : AUEL
5
Censor : BLEEP
6
Gidget in "Gidget" : SANDRADEE
7
"Peanuts" character : LINUS
8
Jug___ : EARS
9
Start of "The Yankee Doodle Boy" chorus : IMA
10
Overcome : CONQUER
11
More sore : ANGRIER
13
Easy 2-pointers : DUNKS
14
1939 movie lawman : DESTRY
16
Dead duck : GONER
22
"The Fusco Brothers" dog, in the funnies : AXEL
23
Amounts : QUANTA
25
Christmas temps : SANTAS
27
Kind of analysis: Abbr. : QUAL
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Take it easy : LOLL
30
Busybodies : QUIDNUNCS
32
Le Havre lading place : QUAI
33
Tarkington opus : PENROD
34
Zebras, e.g. : EQUINES
35
Population boom area : SUNBELT
36
Dress designer Mary : QUANT
37
Ultimate consumer : ENDUSER
38
Sots, at times : REELERS
39
Road in the Ruhr : STRASSE
41
Stationery amount : QUIRE
44
Suppress : QUASH
45
Go as a group : TROOP
48
Wilde comment : QUIP
50
Fountain potable : SODA
52
In the capacity of : QUA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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