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New York Times, Friday, April 8, 1994

Author:
David A. Rosen
Editor:
Will Shortz
24-Across : Savonarola's offense
TotalDebutLatest
21/4/19944/8/1994
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David A. Rosen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QX} Spans: 3 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Rosen. Friday freshness: 8%
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© 1994, The New York Times4/8/94 ( No. 16,222 )
Across
1
Uniform material : KHAKI
6
Islamic pilgrimage : HADJ
10
Late opponent of apartheid : ASHE
14
"___ do" (turndown) : NOCAN
15
One of the back 40, perhaps : ACRE
16
Pole, for instance : SLAV
17
Listens to : OBEYS
18
"Candida" playwright : SHAW
19
Rent : TORE
20
You're looking at it : TODAYSNEWSPAPER
23
Grow together again : KNIT
24
Savonarola's offense : HERESY
25
Utterly miserable : ABJECT
28
Be the victim of a sting? : SMART
30
Vulgarian : BOOR
31
Meals : BOARD
32
Semi's front : CAB
35
You're looking at it : CROSSWORDPUZZLE
39
Laertes, to Polonius : SON
40
Knocked in, as a putt : HOLED
41
Farm feed : OATS
42
Admiral Rickover : HYMAN
43
"___ a Small Hotel" (Rodgers and Hart hit) : THERES
45
Portuguese colony until 1975 : ANGOLA
48
Just conclusion? : DOIT
49
You're looking at it : FORTYNINEACROSS
55
One given to stretchers : LIAR
56
More than a celebrity : IDOL
57
Reddish-brown : COCOA
58
Re : ASTO
59
Schedule position : SLOT
60
Brookhaven Laboratory site : UPTON
61
___ off (began) : TEED
62
Patroness of the Argonauts : HERA
63
Hacienda hands : PEONS
Down
1
Granny, e.g. : KNOT
2
Sundowner : HOBO
3
Didn't just pass : ACED
4
Rapids shooters : KAYAKERS
5
Matched precisely : INSYNC
6
Lacks, briefly : HASNT
7
Pine : ACHE
8
Pull in : DRAW
9
Cowboy's music maker : JEWSHARP
10
Suddenly : ASTART
11
Wheelchair accessway : SLOPE
12
Bounders : HARES
13
"___ Little Movement" (Dorsey Brothers hit) : EVERY
21
Go unused : SIT
22
Proust's "A la Recherche du Temps ___" : PERDU
25
Essentials : ABCS
26
Bklyn., e.g. : BORO
27
"Benny & ___" (1993 film) : JOON
28
MTV correspondent Tabitha : SOREN
29
Anti-D.W.I.org. : MADD
31
Gaucho's weapon : BOLA
32
Basil, e.g. : CZAR
33
Part of an Adenauer epithet : ALTE
34
Catfish Row soprano : BESS
36
Without confidence : SHYLY
37
Feminine : WOMANISH
38
Animation toy : ZOETROPE
42
Flashy car : HOTROD
43
"___ Waterfowl" (Bryant poem) : TOA
44
Minor setback : HICCUP
45
Major key : AFLAT
46
Bedlam : NOISE
47
Fuel holder : GRATE
48
"Animal House" house : DELTA
50
Fruitless : IDLE
51
Hussein's queen : NOOR
52
VIII, to Virgil : OCTO
53
By and by : SOON
54
Minus : SANS

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

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