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New York Times, Thursday, April 21, 1994

Author:
Timothy S. Lewis
Editor:
Will Shortz
57-Across : Equatorial capital
TotalDebutLatest
79/30/197911/18/1994
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2000131
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.6012440%
Timothy S. Lewis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Lewis. Thursday freshness: 49%
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© 1994, The New York Times4/21/94 ( No. 16,235 )
Across
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Lowly homes : HUTS
5
One of the Simpsons : LISA
9
Abundantly supplied : RICH
13
Dairy section purchase : OLEO
14
Overly sentimental : MUSHY
15
60's singer Sands : EVIE
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Knitting loop : PURL
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Crude transportation? : OILER
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House cat : MANX
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House shader : ELM
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Baseball's Canseco : JOSE
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"On Golden Pond" Oscar winner : FONDA
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With 34-Across and 48-Across, Wordsworth lines on Lucy : FAIRASASTARWHEN
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Fur type : OTTER
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Otto I's domain: Abbr. : HRE
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Dig this : ORE
29
Sax, for one : REED
30
"Take the ___" : ATRAIN
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Road hazard : ESS
34
See 22-Across : ONLYONEIS
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N.Y.C. subway : BMT
40
"___ Restaurant" : ALICES
41
"Amo, ___, I love a lass..." : AMAS
45
Sweep at sea : OAR
46
Chinese discipline : ZEN
47
Pennsylvania folks : AMISH
48
See 22-Across : SHININGINTHESKY
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Site of the Cambrian Mountains : WALES
54
Turkish bread : LIRA
55
___ Palmas, Canary Islands : LAS
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Model Macpherson : ELLE
57
Equatorial capital : QUITO
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Huff and puff : PANT
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Dissembled : LIED
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Shark's line : USURY
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Source of sake : RICE
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"The ___ doth protest..." : LADY
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High point : ACME
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German border river : ODER
Down
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Desire : HOPEFOR
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Wail : ULULATE
3
It can eat you out of house and home : TERMITE
4
La preceder : SOL
5
Verdi's "___ Miller" : LUISA
6
Jersey and Guernsey : ISLES
7
"___ walks in beauty..." : SHE
8
Burns's birthplace : AYR
9
Cut again : REMOW
10
Rowena's inamorato : IVANHOE
11
Grate expectations? : CINDERS
12
Six-carbon molecules : HEXANES
14
Farm sounds : MOOS
20
Bump : JAR
21
Diva Mirella : FRENI
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Make over : REDO
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Banquo, e.g. : THANE
25
Astronomical butter : ARIES
30
"Anthony Adverse" author : ALLEN
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Making bows : TYING
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Transportation for Sinbad : ROC
35
Nuremberg defendants : NAZIS
36
Aforementioned : SAME
37
Dr. Johnson's biographer : BOSWELL
38
First name in gospel : MAHALIA
39
Warbled : TRILLED
42
Lost : MISLAID
43
Obliquely : ASKANCE
44
Not one to trust : SHYSTER
47
Sleuth's cry : AHA
49
Strapped : NEEDY
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Home of the Trojans : ILIUM
51
KN03 : NITRE
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Home of the Trojans : TROY
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Sine ___ non : QUA
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Home of the Trojans : USC
59
Old hand : PRO

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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