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New York Times, Friday, February 3, 1995

Author:
Matt Gaffney
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Across : Head
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Matt Gaffney

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 27 Missing: {Y} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Gaffney. Friday freshness: 81%
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© 1995, The New York Times2/3/95 ( No. 16,523 )
Across
1
Literally, "gem of buildings" : TAJMAHAL
9
Florentine : spinach :: lyonnaise : ___ : ONIONS
15
Make match : EQUALIZE
16
Yoplait competitor : DANNON
17
Can't sell anymore, by necessity : RUNOUTOF
18
Chrétien's capital : OTTAWA
19
___ tai : MAI
20
Pestles' companions : MORTARS
22
Vet : DOC
23
Multivitamin ingredient : IRON
25
Conspicuous signs : NEONS
26
Picard predecessor : KIRK
27
Innsbruck's province : TIROL
29
Phoebus, with "the" : SUN
30
Reagan Cabinet member : MEESE
31
Singer Sheena : EASTON
33
In use, as an apartment building : TENANTED
35
They're busy in Apr. : CPAS
37
Dry: Prefix : XERO
38
Clinched : INTHEBAG
42
Postprandial chore : DISHES
46
Reamed : CORED
47
One of the services: Abbr. : NAV
49
"Butterfield 8" author : OHARA
50
Cousins of the cassowary : EMUS
51
Head : SKULL
53
Since : ASOF
54
"Encore!" : BIS
55
Wasn't passive : REACTED
57
Noshed : ATE
58
Access : ENTREE
60
Danish cheeses : HAVARTIS
62
Baseball's Martinez et al. : RAMONS
63
Good way to serve curry : OVERRICE
64
30's leading lady Farrell : GLENDA
65
Something Alaska lacks : SALESTAX
Down
1
Member of the order Isoptera : TERMITE
2
Glass houses? : AQUARIA
3
Sons : JUNIORS
4
Kind of jacket : MAO
5
Former student : ALUM
6
Harass, in a way : HITON
7
Ponta Delgada is its capital : AZORES
8
Unincluded : LEFTOUT
9
Fetors : ODORS
10
Turner and others : NATS
11
Passbook abbr. : INT
12
Like Oprah, perennially : ONADIET
13
Just as good : NOWORSE
14
Noshed : SNACKED
21
Wing : ANNEX
24
Scoring records : NOTCHES
26
Lake Michigan city : KENOSHA
28
Proceeded easily : LOPED
30
Novelist Puzo : MARIO
32
Catch : NAB
34
Mr. Flanders of "The Simpsons" : NED
36
Coffee-aisle item : SANKA
38
Arctic sight : ICEBERG
39
Hardly worth mentioning : NOMINAL
40
Con artist's words : TRUSTME
41
Wide, calf-length trousers : GAUCHOS
43
Attacks : HASATIT
44
"Kama-Sutra," e.g. : EROTICA
45
90's catch phrase : SAFESEX
48
Prague's river : VLTAVA
51
___ ghost (hallucinates) : SEESA
52
Flatten : LEVEL
55
Split : REND
56
Truth alternative : DARE
59
Author-vet Kovic : RON
61
Monopoly acquisitions: Abbr. : RRS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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