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New York Times, Friday, February 18, 1994

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
26-Across : Easier to count
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2548/27/19928/13/20102
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2947154312630
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611.571,613877%
Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 16 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 4%
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© 1994, The New York Times2/18/94 ( No. 16,173 )
Across
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Suit : BEFIT
6
Bit of smoke : WISP
10
___ scratch : FROM
14
Town near Bangor : ORONO
15
"The ___!" (hmmph!) : IDEA
16
Good enough to eat : RIPE
17
One-___ : NIGHTSTAND
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Gray's subj. : ANAT
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Disprove : NEGATE
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Go all-out : STRUGGLE
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Washington story, maybe : LEAK
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Remembrance of things past : RELIC
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Easier to count : FEWER
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Turn-of-century Secretary of State : HAY
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Fleece : CLIP
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Hoorays : RAHS
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U.C.L.A. rival : CAL
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Knocked, in a way : JEERED
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She raised Cain : EVE
38
One side in an 1862 battle : MONITOR
40
1951 Johnnie Ray hit : CRY
41
Disk spinner : DEEJAY
43
Exceptional word? : BUT
44
Deliberate : MUSE
45
Vending machine part : SLOT
46
Stewed : LIT
47
Firedamps : GASES
48
Name in robotry : DETOO
50
Over : UPON
52
Dinner alfresco : BARBECUE
55
Fancy-coiffed bird : HOOPOE
59
Nobelist ___ von Behring : EMIL
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Two-___ : EDGEDSWORD
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The L of L-dopa : LEVO
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Scads : ALOT
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___ up (relented) : EASED
65
From the top : ANEW
66
Popular source of quotes, for short : NYSE
67
Sans elan : DRYLY
Down
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Beethoven's birthplace : BONN
2
Spooky waterway? : ERIE
3
80-day traveler : FOGG
4
Gulps : INHALES
5
Rock : TOTTER
6
Dorothy Parker, e.g. : WIT
7
G. & S. princess and others : IDAS
8
Door stopper? : SENTRY
9
Army chaplain : PADRE
10
Box label : FRAGILE
11
Three-___ : RINGCIRCUS
12
Type of glass : OPAL
13
Dish (out) : METE
18
Main : SEA
22
Worrier's risk, so they say : ULCER
24
Turkish for "ruler" : KHAN
26
Oscar-winning film director Zinnemann : FRED
27
Runoff site : EAVES
28
Four-___ : WHEELDRIVE
30
Convenient story : ALIBI
32
In itself : PERSE
34
Not 100% open : COY
35
Make a memo of : JOT
36
Aids in disguises : DYES
38
Photo choice : MATTE
39
Balletic put-on : TUTU
42
Mr. Average : JOEBLOW
44
Sports legend of 1920 : MANOWAR
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With trumpets ablare : LOUDLY
47
Spurred on : GOOSED
49
Symbol of vastness : OCEAN
51
Reward for yrs. of study : PHD
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Gymnastics coach Karolyi : BELA
53
"I agree!" : AMEN
54
Inflatable items : EGOS
56
Bouquet : POSY
57
Heavily damaged city of W.W. II : OREL
58
Swirl : EDDY
61
Somme summer : ETE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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