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New York Times, Thursday, March 24, 1994

Author:
A.J. Santora
Editor:
Will Shortz
38-Across : Nahuatl speakers
TotalDebutLatest
2531/26/19565/22/2005
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8561430423937
RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
41.5234018556%
A. J. Santora

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 40 Missing: {GJQW} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 190 for Mr. Santora. Thursday freshness: 54%
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© 1994, The New York Times3/24/94 ( No. 16,207 )
Across
1
Bit of lowlife? : AMEBA
6
Unyielding : DEAF
10
Spacewalk, e.g.: Abbr. : EVA
13
"Reflections on Violence" author : SOREL
14
Occupied with : INTO
15
Lose it : SNAP
16
Brit's potato chip : CRISP
17
Headliner : STAR
18
Hunt hint : CLUE
19
Example : INSTANCE
21
Riddler of old : SPHINX
23
Burnish : SCOUR
24
Careening : ALIST
25
Use face cream : CLEANSE
27
"Perpetual Peace" writer : KANT
28
First name in daytime talk : PHIL
29
Brit. ref. work : OED
30
Mr. Bones, in a minstrel : ENDMAN
33
Hard-rock band named for an inventor : TESLA
35
Train schedule abbr. : STA
37
French pupil : ELEVE
38
Nahuatl speakers : AZTECS
40
Cable TV inits. : HBO
42
Oklahoma city : ENID
43
Writer Hubbard : LRON
44
Guides : ESCORTS
46
Refute : BELIE
47
By ___ and bounds : LEAPS
48
Bearlike : URSINE
49
Set apart : INSULATE
53
Flip talk : SASS
54
Spice : ZEST
56
Missile depots : SILOS
57
Comic Kamen : MILT
58
Art Deco master : ERTE
59
Bar, legally : ESTOP
60
"___ luck?" : ANY
61
Env. enclosure : SASE
62
Expressionless : STONY
Down
1
Spore sacs : ASCI
2
Daybreak : MORN
3
Discordia's counterpart : ERIS
4
Readers' perusal : BESTSELLERLIST
5
Woolly fabric : ALPACA
6
They're thrown at meets : DISCUSES
7
Became a member : ENTEREDTHELISTS
8
___ glance : ATA
9
Abandon : FORSAKE
10
Hitch : ENLISTMENT
11
Boast of : VAUNT
12
High point : APEX
15
Spielberg film : SCHINDLERSLIST
20
Don't do it! : NONO
22
Smooth : PLANE
25
At the home of : CHEZ
26
Sans esprit : LISTLESSLY
28
Concerned citizens' grp. : PTA
31
Alamo competitor : AVIS
32
Hammett detective Beaumont : NED
34
Flip ___ (decide randomly) : ACOIN
36
Kind of ballot : ABSENTEE
39
Signs of a cold : SNEEZES
41
Wood sorrels : OCAS
45
Literary works : OPUSES
46
Einstein : BRAIN
48
U.S. Grant's school: Abbr. : USMA
50
Countertenor : ALTO
51
Saturday TV fare, slangily : TOON
52
Glimpse : ESPY
55
Paleozoic, e.g. : ERA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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