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New York Times, Tuesday, May 10, 1994

Author:
David Ellis Dickerson
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Across : ___-scarum
TotalDebutLatest
24/26/19945/10/1994
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David Ellis Dickerson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 3 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Dickerson. Tuesday freshness: 86%
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© 1994, The New York Times5/10/94 ( No. 16,254 )
Across
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Masquerades : GALAS
6
"Fe, fi ,fo, ___!" : FUM
9
Batman foe, with "The" : JOKER
14
Native Alaskan : ALEUT
15
Prince Hirobumi : ITO
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Sheeplike : OVINE
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Irving's "A Prayer for Owen ___" : MEANY
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The lambada, once : FAD
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Grand mountain : TETON
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Dr. Seuss title : YERTLETHETURTLE
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Actress Skye : IONE
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Ho Chi ___ : MINH
25
Car job : LUBE
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___ Bingle (Crosby) : DER
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God Almighty : THEONE
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A year in Mexico : ANO
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Put to the grindstone : HONED
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Studio prop : EASEL
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Dr. Seuss title : IFIRANTHECIRCUS
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Plant seeds again : RESOW
42
___-scarum : HARUM
43
Coach Parseghian : ARA
44
Shakespearean oath : SDEATH
46
Smidgen : BIT
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Love of Greece? : EROS
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Dance or hairstyle : SHAG
50
Calf's meat : VEAL
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Dr. Seuss title : HORTONHEARSAWHO
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One- ___ (short play) : ACTER
60
Crystal ball, e.g. : ORB
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Keep busy : TIEUP
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Violinist Isaac : STERN
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Part of R.S.V.P. : SIL
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Wrestling's ___ the Giant : ANDRE
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Western film title of '75 and '93 : POSSE
66
Golf peg : TEE
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Relaxes : RESTS
Down
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Like venison : GAMY
2
Out of the wind : ALEE
3
Carroll contemporary : LEAR
4
Em, e.g. : AUNTIE
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Pen, for Pierre : STYLO
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About mid-month, with "the" : FIFTEENTH
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Brigham Young's home : UTAH
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Computer-phone link : MODEM
9
Norse land of giants : JOTUNHEIM
10
Make out at a party? : OVERHEAR
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Songstress Eartha : KITT
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Organic compound : ENOL
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Philosopher Descartes : RENE
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Conclude with : ENDON
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Small bird : TIT
25
Dens : LAIRS
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Hungry : UNFED
27
Idaho city : BOISE
29
Betty Ford program : REHAB
31
1991 Stallone comedy : OSCAR
32
Brain surgeon's prefix : NEURO
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Columnist Maxwell et al. : ELSAS
35
Author from Salem, Mass. : HAWTHORNE
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Inferable : DERIVABLE
39
Dinner chickens : ROASTERS
40
More like Shirley Temple : CUTER
45
___ Solo of "Star Wars" : HAN
47
Sir Galahad's mother : ELAINE
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Popular word game : GHOST
51
"___ Is Born" : ASTAR
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Fastener : HASP
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VIII, to Virgil : OCTO
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Blvds. and rds. : RTES
55
Toledo's vista : ERIE
56
Hitches : WEDS
57
William of "The Doctor" : HURT
58
Unlocks, in a sonnet : OPES

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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