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New York Times, Monday, June 13, 1994

Author:
John Greenman
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Across : Flub
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John Greenman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 44 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 54 for Mr. Greenman. Monday freshness: 34%
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© 1994, The New York Times6/13/94 ( No. 16,288 )
Across
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Fitzgerald's forte : SCAT
5
Shortening : LARD
9
"___ little piggy..." : THIS
13
Impetuous : RASH
14
Sunburn remedy : ALOE
15
Rule the ___ : ROOST
16
Agitate : STIR
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Have on : WEAR
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Simone's school : ECOLE
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Epithet for a TV set : ONEEYEDMONSTER
22
Jeanne or Therese: Abbr. : STE
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Believer in God : DEIST
24
Podunk : ONEHORSETOWN
30
Eucharistic plate : PATEN
31
Lascivious looks : LEERS
32
Set-to : ROW
35
On ___ with (equal to) : APAR
36
High in pitch : ALT
37
Mongol monk : LAMA
38
Bandman Brown : LES
39
Baseball's Doubleday : ABNER
41
Bank patron : SAVER
42
Fixation : ONETRACKMIND
44
"Queenie" author Michael : KORDA
46
Get a move on : HIE
47
Gambler's tormentor : ONEARMEDBANDIT
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Beau ___ : GESTE
54
Flub : GOOF
55
Eye layer : UVEA
57
Take back to the car pound : RETOW
58
Axlike tool : ADZE
59
60's vocalist Vikki : CARR
60
German river : EDER
61
"Let's Make a Deal" choice : DOOR
62
Make a cable stitch : KNIT
Down
1
Last year's jrs. : SRS
2
Marcus Porcius : CATO
3
M ___ Mary : ASIN
4
Farm machine : THRESHER
5
Maker of cases : LAWYER
6
Not aweather : ALEE
7
Abbey or Tobacco, e.g. : ROAD
8
Suffix for 41-Down : DERM
9
Alarm bell : TOCSIN
10
Catcalls : HOOTS
11
Wee atoll : ISLET
12
Ending for hip or hoop : STER
15
Extends a subscription : RENEWS
20
School founded in 1440 : ETON
21
Fragrance : ODOR
24
October birthstone : OPAL
25
Place for a necklace clasp : NAPE
26
Hellenic H's : ETAS
27
Obliqueness : SLANT
28
Moray pursuer : EELER
29
Aquarium fish : TETRA
32
Sitarist Shankar : RAVI
33
Bodement : OMEN
34
Voting district : WARD
37
Politician with a limited future : LAMEDUCK
39
Hurricane of 1992 : ANDREW
40
Smile broadly : BEAM
41
Word before deep or dive : SKIN
42
Demosthenes, e.g. : ORATOR
43
Impatient one : CHAFER
44
Bumped impolitely : KNEED
45
Spanish direction : OESTE
47
Grimm villain : OGRE
48
"Yipes!" : EGAD
49
Old fogy : DODO
50
Dolt : BOZO
51
Netman Lendl : IVAN
52
Garr of "Tootsie" : TERI
56
Trump's "The ___ of the Deal" : ART

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

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