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New York Times, Saturday, April 29, 1995

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
15-Across : Not derived from plants or animals: Var.
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11.5550233%
Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 29 Missing: {BJQVXZ} Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Piscop. Saturday freshness: 38%
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© 1995, The New York Times4/29/95 ( No. 16,608 )
Across
1
60s TV home : PONDEROSA
10
Put together : AMASS
15
Not derived from plants or animals: Var. : UNORGANIC
16
Jazzman Chick : COREA
17
Grounds : RATIONALE
18
Cronus or Oceanus, e.g. : TITAN
19
Put in position : SITE
20
It's a blast : TNT
21
Philosophy of patient care : HOLISM
22
Uneven : EROSE
24
___ Tass (Russian news agency) : ITAR
26
Half a dance? : CHA
27
Dictator's security force, perhaps : TASTERS
30
Hammer wielder : THOR
31
High-tech defense inits. : SDI
34
Puppeteer Lewis et al. : SHARIS
35
Actress Loughlin of "Full House" : LORI
36
1968 one-hit wonder : TINYTIM
38
Grease up : SLICKEN
40
Cinema canine : ASTA
41
Prepare for market : FATTEN
43
"___ Beso" (1962 hit) : ESO
44
Remain in the shadows : LURK
45
Seaport in 59-Across : TRIESTE
47
90's singer ___ Kamoze : INI
48
Former New Jersey Governor Thomas : KEAN
49
As ___ Methuselah : OLDAS
53
Wounded by the barber : NICKED
55
Prohibitionist's foe : WET
58
"Scarface" star, 1932 : MUNI
59
Leghorn locale : ITALY
60
___ hour (prayer time) : CANONICAL
62
Stiff hairs : SETAE
63
Rival of Smell-O-Vision, in Hollywood : AROMARAMA
64
Election night developments : TREND
65
Conventioneers : DELEGATES
Down
1
It comes with a title : PURSE
2
Studio sign : ONAIR
3
"What's ___ like?" : NOTTO
4
Oenophile's superlative : DRIEST
5
Much-bruised item : EGO
6
Bombast : RANT
7
___ impulse : ONAN
8
More filled with fine sand : SILTIER
9
Golf coup : ACE
10
Part man? : ACTOR
11
Drudge : MOIL
12
It may have a good heart : ARTICHOKE
13
Coasts : SEASHORES
14
Europe's oldest independent country : SANMARINO
21
Annoys : HASSLES
23
Dummy position : EAST
25
Sibelius's "Valse ___" : TRISTE
28
Geared up, perhaps : SHIFTED
29
Ballerina Karsavina : TAMARA
30
R.N.'s dispense it : TLC
31
Hard-liner of old : STALINIST
32
Alienator : DISUNITER
33
Knotty : INTRICATE
37
Chew the fat : YAK
39
Division word : INTO
42
Not the fanciest eating utensils : TINWARE
46
Upstate New York city : ELMIRA
48
Excited, with "up" : KEYED
50
Admission requirement : DUCAT
51
"What's in ___?" : ANAME
52
George Eliot character : SILAS
54
Hateful group : KLAN
56
Hydroxyl compound : ENOL
57
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, e.g. : TOME
60
Hardly Mr. Right : CAD
61
Plague : NAG

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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