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New York Times, Friday, February 5, 1999

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
25-Across : Zoroastrian scriptures
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 33 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 27 for Mr. Quigley. Friday freshness: 93%
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© 1999, The New York Times2/5/99 ( No. 17,986 )
Across
1
Army post south of Baltimore : FTMEADE
8
Some pens : FLAIRS
14
Entices : LEADSON
15
Modern business equipment : LAPTOPS
17
Carpenter's supply, sometimes : OAKWOOD
18
It's not pretty : EYESORE
19
Used one's dinner table : ATEIN
20
Can : AXE
21
Cognate : AKIN
22
Suffix with cyclo- : TRON
23
Enjoy : SAVOR
25
Zoroastrian scriptures : ZEND
26
Start to believe it? : YOUBETTER
28
Cartoonist Walker et al. : MORTS
29
What pupils focus on : STUDIES
30
They may have bells or whistles : BUOYS
31
Amateur mag. : ZINE
32
Company correspondence : MEMO
33
"Le Docteur miracle" composer : BIZET
35
Shell dispenser : GASPUMP
38
"Anne of the Thousand Days" actress : PAPAS
39
"I'm not making that up!" : TRUESTORY
41
Roster abbr. : ETAL
42
Like a good cake : MOIST
43
It may require surgery : TREE
44
Conduce : TEND
45
Cigarette pkg. : CTN
46
"___ all!" : THATS
47
Kafka novel : AMERIKA
49
Eats one's heart out : GRIEVES
51
Like "sh" or "ch" sounds : LAMINAL
52
Musical ending, often : REPRISE
53
Kwan and Kerrigan : NANCYS
54
Ushers after intermission : RESEATS
Down
1
Buoyant : FLOATY
2
Places to see Verdi or Puccini : TEATROS
3
Distinguish : MAKEOUT
4
"Return to Earth" autobiographer : EDWINBUZZALDRIN
5
Chacun ___ goût (each to his own taste) : ASON
6
Repeated four times, a 1974 Rolling Stones hit : DOO
7
Goal : END
8
Biceps, e.g. : FLEXOR
9
Cake feature : LAYER
10
Make like : APE
11
Harried traffic reporter's comment : ITSAZOOOUTTHERE
12
Dilapidated tenement : ROOKERY
13
Athletes' conditioning activities : SPRINTS
16
Ships : SENDS
20
17 Monopoly props. : AVES
23
Restrict : STINT
24
To ___ (just so) : ATEE
27
Adams and others : EDIES
28
Kind of vaccine : MUMPS
30
Badger : BESET
32
Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer-winning graphic novel : MAUS
33
"Men Behaving Badly" co-star : BATEMAN
34
Place in a 1964 hit song : IPANEMA
35
It may be silly : GRIN
36
Brno's locale : MORAVIA
37
Course requisite, at times : PRETEST
38
Bee's landing site : PETAL
39
Doesn't just wreck : TOTALS
40
Sycophantic responses : YESSES
42
"Home to Harlem" novelist : MCKAY
46
Good things that come to those who wait : TIPS
48
Business abbr. : INC
49
Boxer's warning : GRR
50
Mr. ___ (old board game related to Clue) : REE

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3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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