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New York Times, Friday, February 17, 1995

Author:
Arthur S. Verdesca
Editor:
Will Shortz
45-Across : Aristocracy
TotalDebutLatest
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Arthur S. Verdesca

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 32 for Mr. Verdesca. Friday freshness: 0%
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© 1995, The New York Times2/17/95 ( No. 16,537 )
Across
1
Finance : ENDOW
6
Tore : SPED
10
Trick : JAPE
14
"There!" : VOILA
15
Drench, with "down" : HOSE
16
Patron saint of Norway : OLAF
17
Mississippi quartet : ESSES
18
Plenty : ALOT
19
___ Bay, Hawaii : HILO
20
Like Chablis : SEC
21
Butcher? : HAMOPERATOR
24
Nell portrayer in a 1994 movie : JODIE
26
With 46 Across, a successor to Buster Crabbe : RON
27
Like Schoenberg's works : ATONAL
29
Anomalous : STRANGE
33
Daly role : LACEY
34
Recoiled : SHIED
35
Time-worn : OLD
37
Civic organization : ELKS
38
Manilow's "___ It Be Magic" : COULD
39
Group of turtles : BALE
40
Receive : SEE
41
Cook squash, perhaps : SAUTE
42
Early tennis star ___ Hull Jacobs : HELEN
43
Nerve impulse point : SYNAPSE
45
Aristocracy : GENTRY
46
See 26 Across : ELY
47
Afflict suddenly : SEIZE
48
Cattleman? : STOCKBROKER
53
Magic org. : NBA
56
Trace : HINT
57
Superior : AONE
58
Tribal leader : ELDER
60
Quechua : INCA
61
French chef's dish : ROTI
62
Tuscan city : SIENA
63
Marquess or viscount : PEER
64
Like ___ of bricks : ATON
65
Dangerously seductive : SIREN
Down
1
Eventful times : EVES
2
Ship's prow : NOSE
3
Orthopedist? : DISCJOCKEY
4
Violinist Bull : OLE
5
Toilsome part of the week : WASHDAY
6
Ignominy : SHAME
7
Kind of shirt : POLO
8
Workers' purchase arrangement, for short : ESOP
9
Dissuaded : DETERRED
10
Herr Goethe : JOHANN
11
Got down : ALIT
12
___ Alto : PALO
13
___ excellence : EFOR
22
Trouble : AIL
23
Artery : ROAD
25
A good deal of binary code : ONES
27
Tourist city near Nîmes : ALES
28
Lies : TALES
29
"On the Beach" author : SHUTE
30
Roofing item : TILE
31
Guidance counselor? : GOALTENDER
32
"Oklahoma!" aunt : ELLER
34
Bygone coins : SOUS
36
Gainsay : DENY
38
Largest living rodent : CAPYBARA
39
Auto pioneer : BENZ
41
Polio pioneer : SALK
42
Doris Duke, e.g. : HEIRESS
44
Sweet drink : NECTAR
45
Plow horse command : GEE
47
Flock of wild fowl : SKEIN
48
Send : SHIP
49
Prong : TINE
50
If ever : ONCE
51
Radix, botanically : ROOT
52
Hip about : ONTO
54
Nota ___ : BENE
55
Flaherty's "Man of ___" : ARAN
59
Weeks per annum : LII

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

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