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New York Times, Wednesday, February 22, 1995

Author:
Wayne Robert Williams
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : Abate
TotalDebutLatest
384/30/19943/5/1998
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
44312843
RebusScrabDebutFresh
21.5516243%
Wayne Robert Williams

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {BJQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Williams. Wednesday freshness: 89%
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© 1995, The New York Times2/22/95 ( No. 16,542 )
Across
1
Patagonian plains : PAMPAS
7
Background setting for 7 Down : WORLDWAR
15
Jay's home : AVIARY
16
Burn soother : ALOEVERA
17
Abate : LESSEN
18
Least : TEENIEST
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Surgery spots: Abbr. : ORS
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Buyer's bottom line : NETCOST
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Animal doc : VET
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Friend to Fido, for short : ASPCA
25
Contented comments : AHS
26
Take lunch : DINE
27
Stead : LIEU
28
Supermarket tabloid subject : UFO
29
Stripped : PEELED
31
Oodles : TONS
32
Diarist Ana•s : NIN
33
In imitation of : ALA
34
Best Picture of 1954 : ONTHEWATERFRONT
40
White House nickname : IKE
41
Haw's partner : HEM
42
Rapier : EPEE
43
Traveled like Hiawatha : CANOED
46
Time remembered : ERA
47
Stimulus : SPUR
48
Ireland's ___ Island : ARAN
49
Hosp. diagnostic : MRI
50
Kind of warning : STORM
51
Cold war flier : MIG
52
Angels' home : ANAHEIM
55
Our sun : SOL
56
Deli offering : PASTRAMI
58
End : DEMISE
60
Still in bed : UNARISEN
61
Overjoys : ELATES
62
Make wedding plans : SETADATE
63
Fast-lane malady : STRESS
Down
1
City near San Francisco : PALOALTO
2
Antipathy : AVERSION
3
Squandered : MISSPENT
4
___ de deux : PAS
5
Sphere : ARENA
6
Since, in Scotland : SYNE
7
1941 Lillian Hellman play : WATCHONTHERHINE
8
Lower-priced spreads : OLEOS
9
Agile deer : ROES
10
Fast time : LENT
11
Twice CCLIII : DVI
12
Destructive beetle : WEEVIL
13
Lupin of mysteries : ARSENE
14
Told (on) : RATTED
21
Cheap rum : TAFIA
24
Banquette item : CUSHION
26
Honey : DEAREST
28
Single : UNWED
29
Italian cheese city : PARMA
30
Sprite : ELF
35
Supplement, with "out" : EKE
36
Haunted : EERIE
37
Facing : OPPOSITE
38
Psychological problems : NEUROSES
39
Unconditional : TERMLESS
43
College setting : CAMPUS
44
Dukas opera "___ et Barbe-Bleue" : ARIANE
45
Annoys : NAGSAT
49
"Glengarry Glen Ross" dramatist : MAMET
50
Got a noseful : SMELT
52
Needing rain : ARID
53
Discovery grp. : NASA
54
March time : IDES
57
Song syllable : TRA
59
Disfigure : MAR

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

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