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New York Times, Wednesday, April 12, 1995

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
69-Across : Spoken
TotalDebutLatest
1894/27/19948/3/2024
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
31.571,11574%
Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Norris. Wednesday freshness: 14%
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© 1995, The New York Times4/12/95 ( No. 16,591 )
Across
1
Temporary protector : SCAB
5
Baker's wares : PIES
9
Bassoon relatives : OBOES
14
New Rochelle college : IONA
15
Part of a platform dive : ARCH
16
Dakar's cape : VERDE
17
20
Field hospital routine : TRIAGE
21
Effluvia : ODORS
22
Pool employees : STENOS
23
Printers' measures : ENS
24
Health care lobby grp. : AMA
27
Nolan Ryan, once : ASTRO
30
"___ 17" : STALAG
32
Oriental tea : CHA
35
Criticizes : RAPS
37
El primer mes : ENERO
38
Skipper : AIRPLANECAPTAIN
42
Fling : SPREE
43
Mouse catcher : TRAP
44
Very important : KEY
45
Like some 20th-century compositions : ATONAL
47
Generous : AMPLE
50
Plant : SOW
51
Apprehend the perpetrator : NAB
53
Matador's whirling maneuver : REMATE
57
Caught 40 winks : DOZED
59
Congenital : INBRED
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64
Passage : AISLE
65
Game played with a knife : CLUE
66
Name on many locks : YALE
67
Colony resident of yore : LEPER
68
Worker : HAND
69
Spoken : ORAL
Down
1
Winnows : SIFTS
2
Pursue, in a way : COURT
3
Pulitzer-winning author E. ___ Proulx : ANNIE
4
Kind of split : BANANA
5
Ancient gymnasium : PALESTRA
6
Fed. collection agency : IRS
7
Mimic : ECHO
8
Protection of a kind : SHADE
9
Exceed improperly : OVERSTEP
10
Four-posters : BEDS
11
Mars, for one : ORB
12
Former name for Tokyo : EDO
13
Safe follower : SEX
18
Selves : EGOS
19
Diva Lily : PONS
24
Dripping : ALEAK
25
Donny's singing sister : MARIE
26
Suffering : AGONY
28
Carry on : RANT
29
Dvorak's "Russia," e.g. : OPERA
31
Pismire : ANT
32
Barcelona abodes : CASAS
33
Informed about : HIPTO
34
Tell projectile : ARROW
36
Hoax : SCAM
39
Write : PEN
40
One might do this backward : LEANOVER
41
Notified : APPRISED
46
Use a hammock : LAZE
48
Advance : LEND
49
Future fetus : EMBRYO
52
Sir Toby of "Twelfth Night" : BELCH
54
Aft : AREAR
55
Inventor Nikola : TESLA
56
One of the Fords : EDSEL
57
Take out : DELE
58
Oscar ___ Renta : DELA
60
"My Gal ___" : SAL
61
Golfer's concern : LIE
62
Sixth sense, for short : ESP
63
Tan : SUN

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

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