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New York Times, Saturday, May 14, 1994

Author:
Rand H. Burns
Editor:
Will Shortz
24-Across : Year in Ethelred the Unready's reign
TotalDebutLatest
276/3/19937/17/1999
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RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
11.54113675%
Rand H. Burns

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Burns. Saturday freshness: 75%
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S
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D
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M
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© 1994, The New York Times5/14/94 ( No. 16,258 )
Across
1
Babushkas : SCARFS
7
Juliet's cousin : TYBALT
13
MOMA artist : WARHOL
14
Sports car event : RALLYE
15
Wheeler-dealer type : CORPORATERAIDER
18
Finsteraahorn, for one : ALP
19
Material used in making insulation : STYRENE
20
Kind of testing : DNA
21
Hoofbeat : CLOP
23
Disaccustoms : WEANS
24
Year in Ethelred the Unready's reign : MIII
25
Sub : HERO
26
Battle song : ARIA
27
Draw toward evening : LATEN
28
Thing : ENTITY
30
Willful liars : LIBELERS
32
Clean, with force : SANDBLAST
34
Like possums and squirrels : ARBOREAL
37
Chico's partner : THEMAN
41
Aquatic birds : TERNS
42
Chief Justice in the 1920's : TAFT
44
Zsa Zsa Gabor's real given name : SARI
45
Little pieces of France : ILES
46
Groove holding a gem in place : BEZEL
47
He played Ponch on "CHiPs" : ERIK
48
Grassland : LEA
49
Expunged : DELETED
51
Winner at Chancellorsville : LEE
52
Prey of 15 Across : TAKEOVERTARGETS
55
Colanders : SIEVES
56
Stage direction : EXEUNT
57
"Communist Manifesto" coauthor : ENGELS
58
Part of Egypt's boundary : REDSEA
Down
1
Bulging : SWOLLEN
2
Mustang's shelter : CARPORT
3
Noted name in abstract sculpture : ARP
4
Letters from Greece : RHOS
5
City on the Maumee River : FORTWAYNE
6
Assassin : SLAYER
7
Ship timber peg : TREENAIL
8
Fabrications : YARNS
9
Slate-colored, in Scotland : BLAE
10
Heavyweight poet : ALI
11
Explosive made of picric acid : LYDDITE
12
More wee : TEENIER
15
Secrete : CACHE
16
Daniel Boone, for one : TRAILBLAZER
17
Soakers : RAINS
22
Contaminates : POISONS
24
Mediterranean language : MALTESE
27
Guitarist Phil : LESH
29
Gobs : TARS
31
No shrinking violet, she : BATTLEAXE
33
Alone : DATELESS
34
Inclined : ATILT
35
Unhand : RELEASE
36
Watergate, for starters : BREAKIN
38
Film star's autobiography, 1990 : MARLENE
39
Shorter version of 26 Across : ARIETTA
40
Some sportswear : NIKES
43
Chain : FETTER
46
Cut obliquely : BEVEL
49
Went headlong : DOVE
50
1856 Stowe novel : DRED
53
Brain wave readout, for short : EEG
54
Astronaut Grissom : GUS

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

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