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New York Times, Friday, April 14, 1995

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
25-Across : Any chapter of the Koran
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 36 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 39 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 96%
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© 1995, The New York Times4/14/95 ( No. 16,593 )
Across
1
Vaulted : ARCHED
7
"You're welcome," south of the border : DENADA
13
Elegant : DELUXE
14
Thick soups : POTAGES
15
Without an angle : AGONIC
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"Joueurs de Cartes" and "Les Baigneurs," e.g. : CEZANNES
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Apr. collectors : IRS
18
Small portable cabinet : TABORET
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Reading matter on an urn : ODE
21
Defeat soundly : ROUT
23
Unsettled : FLUID
24
Leader in the dunes : EMIR
25
Any chapter of the Koran : SURA
26
M-G-M motto start : ARS
27
"___ we all?" : ARENT
28
Asset for Jack Benny : PERFECTTIMING
32
Where the Althing sits : REYKJAVIK
33
Lion of Judah : HAILESELASSIE
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Make merry : REVEL
38
"Enterprise" leaders : USS
39
No more than : ONLY
41
The "Odyssey," e.g. : EPOS
42
Silly trick : ANTIC
44
Word with pen or pet : NAME
45
Nuclear defense acronym : SAC
46
Passes : RIDESBY
48
Fashionable wrap : BOA
49
Delphic : ORACULAR
51
Spring farm work : SOWING
53
Bo with guitar : DIDDLEY
54
Quinze doubled : TRENTE
55
Kept someone awake, perhaps : SNORED
56
Sidewalk ___ : VENDER
Down
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Oil-rig firefighter Red et al. : ADAIRS
2
Post-setback order : REGROUP
3
Ending : CLOSURE
4
Horde member : HUN
5
Theater sign : EXIT
6
Coffee order : DECAF
7
Nodded off : DOZED
8
"L'___ c'est moi" : ETAT
9
Masefield's "The Tragedy of ___" : NAN
10
Moniker : AGNOMEN
11
Transferring property : DEEDING
12
Claim : ASSERT
14
Process accompanying digestion : PERISTALSIS
16
Yorick was one : COURTJESTER
19
Super Bowl terror movie : BLACKSUNDAY
22
Hangs around : TARRIES
24
"Childhood and Society" author : ERIKSON
27
"Lucky Jim" author : AMIS
29
Cut down : FELL
30
Peek at : EYE
31
___ Toguri (Tokyo Rose) : IVA
33
Anticoagulant : HEPARIN
34
Guacamole need : AVOCADO
35
Strapped : INABIND
36
Southern California city : ELMONTE
37
Fixes bare spots : RESODS
40
"The Right Stuff" role : YEAGER
42
Felt lousy : AILED
43
William Paley's realm : CBSTV
46
Principle : RULE
47
Knight time : YORE
50
Rank below capt. : CDR
52
Sebaceous cyst : WEN

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 8 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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