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New York Times, Tuesday, March 1, 1994

Author:
D.J. Listort
Editor:
Will Shortz
22-Across : Argued
TotalDebutLatest
23/1/199410/19/1994
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.49832%
D. J. Listort

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 46 Missing: {BFJQXYZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Listort. Tuesday freshness: 57%
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© 1994, The New York Times3/1/94 ( No. 16,184 )
Across
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Break down grammatically* : PARSE
6
Items in a still life* : PEARS
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Braincase : CRANIUM
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"___ Fables" : AESOPS
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Considers bond values again : RERATES
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Reduce to ashes : CREMATE
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Fred's sister : ADELE
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___ Speedwagon : REO
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Not give ___ : ARAP
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Mediocre : SOSO
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Argued : PLED
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Loudonville, N.Y., campus : SIENA
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Classical name in medicine : GALEN
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Sprinted : RAN
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"___ Believer" (Monkees hit) : IMA
31
Barn topper : VANE
32
Football squad : ELEVEN
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Court ruling : LAW
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Hint to solving the eight starred clues : ANAGRAM
39
___ Jima : IWO
40
Ignite : KINDLE
42
Plane or dynamic preceder : AERO
43
Actress Ryan : MEG
44
Deteriorate : ROT
45
Curses : DAMNS
47
Sprockets linker : CHAIN
50
Reps.' counterparts : DEMS
51
Riding whip : CROP
55
Natural gait : LOPE
56
Emily, to Charlotte : SIS
57
Madrid attraction : PRADO
58
Kind of lot : USEDCAR
60
Zebralike : STRIPED
62
March laboriously : TRUDGE
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Paired nuclides : ISOMERS
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Catch suddenly* : SPEAR
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Harvests* : REAPS
Down
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Trims* : PARES
2
Kind of recording : ANALOG
3
Passage ceremony : RITE
4
Cash's "A Boy Named ___" : SUE
5
Printers' widths : EMS
6
Set the standard for : PACED
7
Architect Saarinen : EERO
8
Chemical suffix : ASE
9
Lettuce variety : ROMAINE
10
Bowling save* : SPARE
11
Tomorrow: Lat. : CRAS
12
Try again : REDO
14
Laurel or Musial : STAN
17
Wetlands watchdog : EPA
19
Deserters : RENEGADES
22
Venus, for one : PLANET
23
River to the Laptev Sea : LENA
24
Game fish : SALMON
26
50's singer Frankie : AVALON
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Supplies with better weapons : REARMS
28
Kind : ILK
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___ tai (cocktail) : MAI
30
Cereal bristle : AWN
33
Robust energy : VIM
34
Pronoun in a cote? : EWE
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Norfolk ale : NOG
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20+ quires : REAM
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Evaporated : DRIEDUP
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Act niggardly : SCRIMP
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Actor Gulager : CLU
48
Emcee : HOST
49
Copycats* : APERS
50
More extreme : DIRER
52
Mustard plants* : RAPES
53
Baltic Sea feeder : ODER
54
Pea places : PODS
56
Long account : SAGA
57
Swift sailing boat : PROA
59
B-F connection : CDE
60
Salutation for Edmund Hillary : SIR
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Half a fly : TSE

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

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