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New York Times, Monday, May 23, 1994

Author:
Jonathan Schmatzbach
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : "... more than one way to skin ___"
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312/15/19945/16/20181
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.5211218%
Jonathan Schmalzbach

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {KQXZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Schmalzbach. Monday freshness: 12%
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© 1994, The New York Times5/23/94 ( No. 16,267 )
Across
1
"... more than one way to skin ___" : ACAT
5
Supply a party : CATER
10
Beast of burden : ASS
13
Fads : RAGES
15
Speak publicly : ORATE
16
Caltech rival : MIT
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Cereal "fruit" : CRUNCHBERRY
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"___ of these days, Alice ..." : ONE
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Outdoor : OPENAIR
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Spiritual punishment : PENANCE
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Meadow : LEA
24
Jockey Cordero : ANGEL
25
Civil War flash point : HARPERSFERRY
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Nom de crook : ALIAS
33
Upset : IRED
34
Small dog, for short : POM
37
Split : REND
38
Grew ashen : PALED
40
Coffee, informally : JAVA
41
Hat-room fixture : PEG
42
Salon offering : TINT
43
More painful : SORER
44
U.S. commodore in Japan, 1853-54 : MATTHEWPERRY
47
Letter-shaped metal bar : IBEAM
50
Senor Guevara : CHE
51
Lovebirds' destination, maybe : NIAGARA
54
Paul of "Casablanca" : HENREID
59
___ Altos, Calif. : LOS
60
County of Northern Ireland : LONDONDERRY
62
Had a little lamb? : ATE
63
First name in cosmetics : ESTEE
64
Novelist Francoise : SAGAN
65
Roll of bills : WAD
66
Looks (to be) : SEEMS
67
Unattached : LONE
Down
1
With the bow, in music : ARCO
2
Bellyache : CARP
3
Malarial symptom : AGUE
4
Part of T.V.A.: Abbr. : TENN
5
Hooded snakes : COBRAS
6
Exist : ARE
7
Diamond cover : TARP
8
To be, to Satie : ETRE
9
"___ the Fox" (classic fable) : REYNARD
10
In the midst of : AMONG
11
From the time of : SINCE
12
Girder material : STEEL
14
___ of justice : SCALES
18
Yesterday: Fr. : HIER
22
"___ luck?" : ANY
25
David's instrument : HARP
26
Downwind, nautically : ALEE
27
Wedding sine qua non : RING
28
Add to, unnecessarily : PAD
29
Smut : FILTH
30
Prior to, in poems : ERE
31
Crimson : RED
34
Henry VIII's VIth : PARR
35
"Reply completed," to a ham operator : OVER
36
Queen of Scots : MARY
38
Word before bull or stop : PIT
39
Grasshopper's rebuker : ANT
40
Baseball's DiMaggio : JOE
42
Mexican snacks : TAMALES
43
Isn't miserly : SPENDS
44
Cosmo, e.g. : MAG
45
Reverberations : ECHOES
46
At what time? : WHEN
47
Wedding acquisition : INLAW
48
Flora and fauna : BIOTA
49
Let up : EASED
52
Type of wine : ROSE
53
Kitty starter : ANTE
55
Kind of estate : REAL
56
Therefore : ERGO
57
Major rug exporter : IRAN
58
Unit of force : DYNE
61
Rep. foe : DEM

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

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