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New York Times, Tuesday, February 21, 1995

Author:
Martin Schneider
Editor:
Will Shortz
37-Across : Slender
TotalDebutLatest
134/11/19945/22/2024
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1.5913563%
Martin Schneider

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 1 Scrabble average: 1.87 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Schneider. Tuesday freshness: 83%
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© 1995, The New York Times2/21/95 ( No. 16,541 )
Across
1
"Lights out" tune : TAPS
5
U.S. terr until 1912 : ARIZ
9
Dieter's lunch : SALAD
14
Opposite of sans : AVEC
15
___ Raton : BOCA
16
Noted violinmaker : AMATI
17
Chaucer's Wife of ___ : BATH
18
Radar screen image : BLIP
19
Kayak : CANOE
20
Pre-Utah team : NEWORLEANSJAZZ
23
Breakfast-in-bed item : TRAY
24
Comic Johnson : ARTE
25
Put on years : AGE
26
Hushed : LOW
28
Priest's robe : ALB
30
Clairvoyance : ESP
33
Alcohol awareness org. : MADD
35
Writer Fleming : IAN
37
Slender : SVELTE
39
Pre-Los Angeles team : BROOKLYNDODGERS
42
Elicited : EDUCED
43
Anglo-Saxon letter : WYN
44
"Typee" sequel : OMOO
45
Like Gen. Powell : RET
46
Dadaist Hans : ARP
48
Ukr. or Russ., once : SSR
50
Some dash widths : ENS
51
Eurasia's ___ Mountains : URAL
53
King ___ : KONG
55
Pre-Indianapolis team : BALTIMORECOLTS
61
Furnish : EQUIP
62
Artful : FOXY
63
Manhandle : MAUL
65
American Kennel Club rejects : MUTTS
66
Sister and wife of Osiris : ISIS
67
New York canal : ERIE
68
Mississippi tributary : YAZOO
69
Mammilla : TEAT
70
Cell: Prefix : CYTO
Down
1
Bill : TAB
2
Trend-setting, perhaps : AVANTGARDE
3
Waned : PETEREDOUT
4
Vowel sound : SCHWA
5
This ans., e.g. : ABBR
6
Kind of bed : ROLLAWAY
7
Colder : ICIER
8
Revolutionary Emiliano : ZAPATA
9
Pouches : SACS
10
Key of Mozart's Symph. No. 29 : AMAJ
11
Actress Turner : LANA
12
The gamut : ATOZ
13
Number after nueve : DIEZ
21
Olive that's very thin : OYL
22
TV family, 1952-66 : NELSONS
25
Jurassic Park compound : AMBER
27
Crude container : OILDRUM
29
Brief letters? : BVD
30
Basic : ELEMENTARY
31
Forte : STRONGSUIT
32
Mexican moola : PESOS
34
Happy associate : DOC
36
Opposite SSE : NNW
38
I, to Claudius : EGO
40
Mauna ___ : KEA
41
Reading problem? : DYSLEXIA
47
Loss's partner : PROFIT
49
Orson Welles studio : RKO
52
Stood up : AROSE
54
Early Mexican : OLMEC
55
The Ronettes' "___ Baby" : BEMY
56
Shade of blue : AQUA
57
Jump for Oksana Baiul : LUTZ
58
One of the Jackson 5 : TITO
59
___ facto : IPSO
60
Skin abnormality : CYST
64
Pope who excommunicated Martin Luther : LEO

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

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