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New York Times, Wednesday, May 4, 1994

Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Will Shortz
49-Across : Imperfect bridge holding
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Lou Sabin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQUXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 110 for Mr. Sabin. Wednesday freshness: 3%
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© 1994, The New York Times5/4/94 ( No. 16,248 )
Across
1
Spring runner : SAP
4
Pole at sea : SPRIT
9
Dieter's measure : GRAM
13
Robust drink : ALE
14
Delete-key function : ERASE
15
TV tease : PROMO
16
Golf ball's position : LIE
17
Sedaka and Simon : NEILS
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Play the fink : RATON
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"Falstaff" : VERDISLASTOPERA
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Marked down : ONSALE
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"The Woman in the Dunes" author : ABE
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It's big in London : BEN
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Hard or soft approach : SELL
27
Scout's group : DEN
30
Quatrain's pattern : ABAB
33
Seville snack : TAPA
35
Sister of Charlotte : EMILY
37
"The Misfits" : GABLESLASTMOVIE
40
Barkin of "Sea of Love" : ELLEN
41
Genealogist's work : TREE
42
It may be cured : MEAT
43
Monaco cube : DIE
44
Speech site : DAIS
46
Actress Carrie : NYE
48
Cobbler's tool : AWL
49
Imperfect bridge holding : TENACE
53
Homer #521 : WILLIAMSLASTHIT
59
Blotter entry : ALIAS
60
Waugh and others : ALECS
61
Eunuch's unit : ODA
62
Disk-shaped marine fish : SKATE
63
Challenger's quest : TITLE
64
Political abbr. : REP
65
Hound's quarry : HARE
66
Semicircular recesses : APSES
67
Wordsworth's "We ___ Seven" : ARE
Down
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Military blast : SALVO
2
Refuge seeker : ALIEN
3
Duke and earl : PEERS
4
More than forgetful : SENILE
5
Favors : PRESENTS
6
Tout's post : RAIL
7
___ Mujeres, Mexico : ISLA
8
Chester Gould femme : TESS
9
Smooth-skinned edible : GRAPE
10
Learning method : ROTE
11
It makes the mundus go round : AMOR
12
Actress Washbourne : MONA
15
Gordian knot, for one : PROBLEM
20
Show amateurish interest (in) : DABBLE
21
Chess's Mikhail : TAL
25
Works with Riddick Bowe : SPARS
26
Facility : EASE
27
Belly flop, e.g. : DIVE
28
Lamb of yore : ELIA
29
"No way, Sergei!" : NYET
30
Elderly : AGED
31
Java neighbor : BALI
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Up to snuff : ABLE
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Choral voices : ALTI
36
Tick of time : MOMENT
38
On edge : ENDWISE
39
Seaquarium arm : TENTACLE
45
Like : ALA
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Swains' requests : YESSES
48
Like Pegasus : ALATE
50
Now, in Nogales : AHORA
51
Autumn beverage : CIDER
52
Marchers' camp : ETAPE
53
Wear's partner : WASH
54
Chase of Tinseltown : ILKA
55
Pre-rehab Pinocchio : LIAR
56
___ Hari : MATA
57
Underdress : SLIP
58
"___ Do It" (Porter tune) : LETS

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