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New York Times, Wednesday, May 31, 1995

Author:
Jonathan Schmatzbach
Editor:
Will Shortz
36-Across : Runs off at the mouth
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1.5211218%
Jonathan Schmalzbach

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Schmalzbach. Wednesday freshness: 65%
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© 1995, The New York Times5/31/95 ( No. 16,640 )
Across
1
Ruined, slangily : SHOT
5
Transparent : CLEAR
10
"O, ___ fortune's fool!": Romeo : IAM
13
Excellent : AONE
14
Siva follower : HINDU
15
Year in the reign of Philip I : MLXI
16
Impending disaster : SWORDOFDAMOCLES
19
Hydra's slayer : HERCULES
20
Armstrong et al. : NEILS
21
Building extension : ELL
22
Imago, for one : ADULT
24
Olds model : CUTLASSSUPREME
30
Object of a misanthrope's malice : MAN
31
Word with parking or breathing : SPACE
32
Freudian stage : ORAL
33
Current units, for short : AMPS
35
Colorado Indian : UTE
36
Runs off at the mouth : YAKS
37
Rockefeller Center muralist : SERT
38
Economic news : TREND
40
Titleist's support : TEE
41
Dealing in espionage : CLOAKANDDAGGER
45
Swings for Tarzan : VINES
46
Cycle or verse prefix : UNI
47
Iowa community : AMANA
49
Fixing the driveway : REPAVING
54
Fred Flintstone's cat, for one : SABERTOOTHTIGER
57
Out of control : WILD
58
Rafsanjani, e.g. : IRANI
59
Iditarod destination : NOME
60
Mariner's dir. : ENE
61
"Attention must be paid" to him : LOMAN
62
Corsair's quaff : GROG
Down
1
Obi : SASH
2
Julia Ward ___ : HOWE
3
___ about (approximately) : ONOR
4
Three lines of verse : TERCET
5
Mojave plants : CHOLLAS
6
Chaim, to Potok : LIFE
7
Goals : ENDS
8
Critic ___ Louise Huxtable : ADA
9
The punch in planter's punch : RUM
10
Untaught : ILLITERATE
11
Skating maneuver : AXEL
12
Strindberg's "___ Julie" : MISS
15
Secretary of Defense, 1957-59 : MCELROY
17
Tedious : DULL
18
"Get ___" (1967 Esquires hit) : ONUP
22
Climb : ASCEND
23
Fitting : DUE
24
Advertising figure Joe ___ : CAMEL
25
Like certain math propositions : UNPROVABLE
26
Rejects : SPURNS
27
Gratified : SATED
28
Creator : MAKER
29
Differently : ELSE
30
Virile: Abbr. : MASC
34
Like chapel glass : STAINED
38
Menlo Park monogram : TAE
39
Eldest son of a French king : DAUPHIN
42
Wood knot : KNAR
43
Biting insect : GNAT
44
Generous : GIVING
47
"...___ forgive our debtors" : ASWE
48
Conduit : MAIN
49
Meander : ROAM
50
View from Catania : ETNA
51
Inventor Sikorsky : IGOR
52
Verne captain : NEMO
53
Diver Louganis : GREG
55
Before, briefly : TIL
56
Pizarro's plunder : ORO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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