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New York Times, Thursday, April 20, 1995

Author:
Raymond Hamel
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Across : Where Mark Twain is buried
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
271/22/19946/19/20061
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.6015145%
Raymond Hamel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {GQXZ} This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Hamel. Thursday freshness: 74%
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© 1995, The New York Times4/20/95 ( No. 16,599 )
Across
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Turkish title : PASHA
6
Not adventurous : STAID
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Prayer site : PEW
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Dairy section selection : OLEOS
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"Filthy" money : LUCRE
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Rope-a-dope exponent : ALI
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Religious Bronco center? : KEITHBISHOP
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Bonus : TIP
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Whilom : ERST
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Odysseus's advisor : ATHENA
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Middle mark : CEE
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Soaks a bag : STEEPS
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Form of pachisi : LUDO
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Religious basketball star? : MOSESMALONE
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Ratify : ADOPT
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Invoice stamp : PAID
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With 30 Down, a night sight : URSA
38
"___ Got Tonight" (hit song) : WEVE
39
Actor Most of "Happy Days" : DONNY
40
Skinny : BONY
41
Wanton look : LEER
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Half of sedecim : OCTO
43
Philadelphia skater : FLYER
44
Religious Dodger pitcher? : PREACHERROE
47
Year of Columbus's death : MDVI
48
Toady : YESMAN
52
1773 jetsam : TEA
54
Where Mark Twain is buried : ELMIRA
58
Singer Turner : TINA
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Fitting : APT
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Religious Rams end? : DEACONJONES
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Start of a winning line : TIC
63
Cleveland Secretary of State Richard ___ : OLNEY
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Eye twisters : OPART
65
German pronoun : ICH
66
Some United Nations vetoes : NYETS
67
Emerson product : ESSAY
Down
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Rib ticklers? : POKES
2
On the ball : ALERT
3
Take, at law : SEISE
4
Easily riled : HOTTEMPERED
5
Lenten symbol : ASH
6
Open, in a way : SLIT
7
1975 ZZ Top hit : TUSH
8
Have pains : ACHE
9
Thatcher nickname : IRONLADY
10
Home of the Blue Demons : DEPAUL
11
Author of "The Great Santini" : PATCONROY
12
Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
13
Dry dishes : WIPE
18
The low notes : BASS
24
Kind of roast : POT
26
Plays two notes simultaneously : DOUBLESTOPS
28
Long time : EPOCH
29
"A votre ___" : SANTE
30
See 36 Across : MINOR
31
Peon of yore : ESNE
32
Saddlemaker's tool : AWL
33
Philosophical : DEEP
34
Surpass : OVERMATCH
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Robert Burns's birthplace : AYR
39
Without a fight : DOCILELY
43
Challenger : FOE
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Last name in fashion photography : AVEDON
46
Meg of "Sleepless in Seattle" : RYAN
49
Talkative birds: Var. : MINAS
50
The end of ___ : ANERA
51
Disagreeable : NASTY
52
"Mon Oncle" director : TATI
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Of majestic proportion : EPIC
55
Pride of lions : MANE
56
Rapper né Tracey Marrow : ICET
57
Orbison and Rogers : ROYS
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Coffee, in slang : JOE

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4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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