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New York Times, Monday, March 21, 1994

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Across : Telescopist's sighting
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Sidney L. Robbins

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 159 for Mr. Robbins. Monday freshness: 1%
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© 1994, The New York Times3/21/94 ( No. 16,204 )
Across
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Bakery byproduct : AROMA
6
Went by plane : FLEW
10
Copied : APED
14
Arizona features : MESAS
15
Scottish isle : IONA
16
Lemon's partner : LIME
17
With 36-Across and 55-Across, a sales pitch disclaimer : PASTPERFORMANCE
20
Baden-Baden and others : SPAS
21
Shea team : METS
22
Eastern V.I.P. : AMEER
23
Mr. Caesar : SID
24
Ship to ___ : SHORE
25
"Swan Lake," e.g. : BALLET
29
Tiny bit : IOTA
31
Not native : ALIEN
32
Printer's employee : INKER
33
Printer's measures : EMS
36
See 17-Across : ISNOTAGUARANTEE
39
His wife took a turn for the worse : LOT
40
Obsolescent piano key material : IVORY
41
Bellini opera : NORMA
42
Hoarder's cry : MORE
43
Telescopist's sighting : METEOR
44
Strength : SINEW
47
Opponent : FOE
48
Xerox competitor : CANON
49
"When I was ___..." : ALAD
51
In ___ of : LIEU
55
See 17-Across : OFFUTURERESULTS
58
Person 'twixt 12 and 20 : TEEN
59
"The King and I" setting : SIAM
60
Singer Cara : IRENE
61
Misses the mark : ERRS
62
Paddles : OARS
63
Waco locale : TEXAS
Down
1
Concert hall equipment : AMPS
2
Harvest : REAP
3
Greek mountain : OSSA
4
Wrestlers' needs : MATS
5
Type of cobra : ASP
6
Shot : FIRED
7
Artist's pad? : LOFT
8
Son of Seth : ENOS
9
Revolutionary, e.g. : WAR
10
"Remember the ___" : ALAMO
11
Heartbroken swain : PINER
12
Leno, for one : EMCEE
13
Bucks and does : DEER
18
Give forth : EMIT
19
Indian noblewoman : MAHARANEE
23
Feeling : SENTIMENT
24
Suffix with tip or dump : STER
25
Get-out-of-jail money : BAIL
26
In addition : ALSO
27
Bit of fluff : LINT
28
Mr. Durocher : LEO
29
Harden : INURE
30
"Sure, why not?" : OKAY
32
Borodin's "Prince ___" : IGOR
33
To be, in Paree : ETRE
34
Secretarial work : MEMO
35
Burn : SEAR
37
Confess : AVOW
38
"___ on your life!" : NOT
43
Fashion : MODE
44
"60 Minutes" regular : SAFER
45
Reason out : INFER
46
Sentence subjects : NOUNS
47
Country homes : FARMS
48
Pigeon coop : COTE
49
___ da capo : ARIA
50
Noted James Earl Jones stage role : LEAR
51
Entice : LURE
52
The holm oak : ILEX
53
Erupter of 1669 : ETNA
54
Applications : USES
56
G.I. entertainers : USO
57
Command to Fido : SIT

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