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New York Times, Thursday, May 12, 1994

Author:
A.J. Santora
Editor:
Will Shortz
9-Across : Bend
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41.5234018556%
A. J. Santora

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 35 Missing: {FJQXZ} This is puzzle # 192 for Mr. Santora. Thursday freshness: 86%
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© 1994, The New York Times5/12/94 ( No. 16,256 )
Across
1
Gather : AMASS
6
Radar gun reading: Abbr. : MPH
9
Bend : CROOK
14
Collector's items : VIRTU
15
France's ___ d'Yeu : ILE
16
Throng : HORDE
17
Lewis's Gantry : ELMER
18
"The Beggar's Opera" author : GAY
19
Yeats's ___ Theatre : ABBEY
20
Singing sister of old Hollywood : ROSEMARYLANE
23
American skiing medalist at Lillehammer : PICABOSTREET
27
Cry of disgust : PAH
30
Twerp : SHNOOK
31
Gross-weight deduction : TARE
32
"A miss is as good as ___" : AMILE
34
Toddler : TYKE
35
Where Zeno taught : STOA
36
Filmdom's Sam Spade : BOGART
38
What's-his-name : WHOSIS
40
Annealing oven : LEHR
41
High school problem : ACNE
45
In abeyance : ONICE
46
Over, in Essen : UBER
47
___ et quarante (betting game) : TRENTE
49
Posthumous duettist of 1991 : NAT
50
"The Big Chill" actress : MARYKAYPLACE
53
"Cheers" star : KIRSTIEALLEY
57
Shortcoming : DEBIT
60
Telephone button : TUV
61
Actor Reeves : KEANU
62
Spy : AGENT
63
"Gimme ___!" (end of a Yale cheer) : ANE
64
Patti LuPone role : EVITA
65
Kind of bag : DOGGY
66
Writer Deighton : LEN
67
Attack : SETON
Down
1
Maintain : AVER
2
Venus's home : MILO
3
Weaponry : ARMS
4
Expensive : STEEP
5
Thinker : SURMISER
6
___ worker : MIGRANT
7
Magazine since 1953 : PLAYBOY
8
"Lo!" modern-style : HEYLOOK
9
Music of the Benedictine monks : CHANT
10
Noted televangelist : ROBERTSON
11
Sun, e.g. : ORB
12
Hafiz work : ODE
13
Pivotal : KEY
21
Alas, to Helmut : ACH
22
Sideways : ASKEW
24
Sups at home : EATSIN
25
Beethoven's Third : EROICA
26
Reception china : TEASET
27
Trite ideas : PABLUM
28
Microscopy subject : AMOEBA
29
More costly : HIGHER
33
CNN personality : LARRYKING
37
Mongol : TATAR
39
Cornmeal concoctions : HOECAKES
42
Stemware : CRYSTAL
43
Voyager II subject : NEPTUNE
44
Animate : ENLIVEN
48
___ kwon do (Korean karate) : TAE
51
Pot : KITTY
52
Student abroad : ELEVE
54
Cafe au ___ : LAIT
55
Within: Prefix : ENTO
56
China's dollar : YUAN
57
Parent : DAD
58
Personal pride : EGO
59
Importune : BEG

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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