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New York Times, Tuesday, April 19, 1994

Author:
Bob Sefick
Editor:
Will Shortz
28-Across : Propelled a punt
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Bob Sefick

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQWX} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Sefick. Tuesday freshness: 100%
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© 1994, The New York Times4/19/94 ( No. 16,233 )
Across
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Clicker that might be used on a trawler? : CASTANET
9
London elevator : LIFT
13
Tibetan V.I.P. : DALAILAMA
14
Plume source : EGRET
16
Starter at an Italian restaurant : ANTIPASTO
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Quick on one's toes : AGILE
18
Shoshonean : UTE
19
Health resort : SPA
20
Department store employee : PRICER
21
Behan's "___ Boy" : BORSTAL
23
George Sand, e.g. : PENNAME
24
Gene Kelly's "___ Girls" : LES
25
Loving touches : CARESSES
26
German coal region : SAAR
28
Propelled a punt : POLED
29
Amtrak listing: Abbr. : STA
30
One of the Astors : MARY
31
Is interested : CARES
32
Caddies carry them : TEES
33
Bank account amt. : INT
34
Vatican City dwellers : POPES
35
Jetty : PIER
36
It causes a reaction : STIMULUS
38
Great noise : DIN
39
Sparta was its capital : LACONIA
40
Have the chair : PRESIDE
44
Resounding, as a canyon : ECHOIC
45
TV knob abbr. : HOR
46
Statehouse V.I.P. : GOV
47
Left the chair : AROSE
48
Cheese at an Italian restaurant : PROVOLONE
51
"Put up your ___!" : DUKES
52
Relinquishes : ABNEGATES
53
Elan : ZEST
54
Solemn hymn : DIESIRAE
Down
1
Piece of a poem : CANTO
2
Change, as hems : ALTER
3
Capuchin monkey : SAI
4
Racetrack informant : TIPSTER
5
Confirmation slaps : ALAPAS
6
Twangy : NASAL
7
Ambulance attendant: Abbr. : EMT
8
Philosopher's universal : TAO
9
Scholarly : LEARNED
10
Eliza's 'enry : IGGINS
11
Chicken dish : FRICASSEE
12
Distance gauge : TELEMETER
13
Paint unskillfully : DAUB
15
Brewer and Wright : TERESAS
20
Parisian papas : PERES
22
Kill, as a dragon : SLAY
23
Turns white : PALES
25
Meltdown areas : CORES
26
City south of Palo Alto : SANTACRUZ
27
Salad ingredient : ARTICHOKE
28
___ New Guinea : PAPUA
30
Throw off the scent : MISLEAD
31
Some lose sleep over it : COLIC
32
Baking pans : TINS
34
Most runtlike : PUNIEST
35
Polish dumpling : PIEROGI
37
Yankee great Skowron et al. : MOOSES
38
Herds : DROVES
40
Call up : PHONE
41
Jim Croce's "___ Name" : IGOTA
42
Gift getter : DONEE
43
Holiday nights : EVES
48
Cushion : PAD
49
Baseball hitter's stat : RBI
50
Household god, in Roman myth : LAR

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

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