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New York Times, Thursday, June 16, 1994

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Will Shortz
12-Across : Foreman
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Jim Page

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 87 for Mr. Page. Thursday freshness: 92%
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© 1994, The New York Times6/16/94 ( No. 16,291 )
Across
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Swit co-star : ALDA
5
Record label abbr. : BMI
8
___ E. Coyote : WILE
12
Foreman : OVERSEER
14
Superdome and Silverdome, e.g. : STADIA
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Nursery rhyme listeners : KINDERGARTENERS
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Dig it! : ORE
19
Puzzlement : QUANDARY
20
Kind of badge : MERIT
22
"The Counterfeiters" author : GIDE
23
___ hound : BASSET
24
Mail client : ORDERER
27
Model Carol : ALT
28
Corn chip topping : SALSA
30
Lacoste and others : RENES
32
Karl Malone's team : UTAH
34
Pleases : SUITS
36
Large number : RAFT
37
Pave over : RETOP
39
Heroic story : GESTE
41
Actress Farrow : MIA
42
More retiring : DEMURER
44
Outshines : EXCELS
46
"...___ saw Elba" : EREI
47
Eniwetok, e.g. : ATOLL
48
Brooklyn Bridge designer : ROEBLING
52
Early TV's Denise : LOR
53
Pretty Maid's nursery rhyme declaration : IMGOINGAMILKING
58
Former Philly mayor Wilson et al. : GOODES
59
Fiddle-faddle : NONSENSE
60
Toshiba rival : SONY
61
Band's booking : GIG
62
Campaign : RACE
Down
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Just. dandy : AOK
2
Year in Nero's reign : LVI
3
Reading room : DEN
4
Zeals : ARDORS
5
Certain firearms : BERETTAS
6
Actress Ryan : MEG
7
Modern site of ancient Kish : IRAQ
8
1962 Dion hit, with "The" : WANDERER
9
"The very ___!" : IDEA
10
Line to the Hamptons, for short : LIRR
11
"Don't overdo it" : EASY
13
Subway ___ : SERIES
14
Conservative : STAID
15
Like grade-A meat : TENDER
17
Lively tots : RUGRATS
20
Soda jerk's drink : MALTED
21
Property : ESTATE
23
"Ironside" actress Elizabeth : BAUR
24
Basketry twig : OSIER
25
Kind of paint : ENAMEL
26
Another round : REFILL
29
Coasting at Lillehammer : LUGEING
31
Union and others: Abbr. : STAS
33
Opposite of 8-Down : HOMEBODY
35
Thievery : STEALING
38
1970 0ssie Davis musical : PURLIE
40
Lauds : EXTOLS
43
Holds one's horses? : REINS
45
First-rate joke : CORKER
48
Fixes : RIGS
49
Novel set on Tahiti : OMOO
50
Designer von Furstenberg : EGON
51
The Daltons, e.g. : GANG
54
Miss Piggy word : MOI
55
___ flash : INA
56
Wash. advisory grp. : NSC
57
Command to a plow horse : GEE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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