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New York Times, Saturday, June 22, 1996

Author:
B. White
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Across : Pre-Life picture magazine
TotalDebutLatest
406/1/19915/2/2018
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
500151118
RebusCircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
511.542111170%
Bryant White

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {Y} This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. White. Saturday freshness: 90%
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O
2
J
3
I
4
B
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W
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A
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D
8
E
9
F
10
R
11
A
12
U
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D
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R
E
N
O
I
R
15
C
O
Q
U
E
T
T
E
16
A
R
S
I
N
E
17
H
O
U
S
E
T
O
P
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T
O
O
L
S
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M
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D
A
S
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A
P
O
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I
B
M
S
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P
E
N
A
L
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B
R
I
T
24
N
O
N
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E
R
R
E
D
26
C
A
S
A
S
27
G
A
I
28
E
T
I
E
S
29
F
A
N
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M
A
L
T
E
S
E
31
F
A
L
C
32
O
33
N
34
O
A
S
35
P
I
C
K
A
X
E
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S
37
B
38
E
39
E
R
S
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W
A
V
E
S
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I
M
P
42
R
O
J
O
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S
H
R
E
D
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A
D
A
H
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A
C
E
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S
H
I
R
R
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P
L
A
T
E
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Z
E
C
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C
H
I
N
O
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S
U
I
T
O
R
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I
N
T
E
R
N
E
T
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A
C
C
E
D
E
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L
E
S
L
I
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W
E
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D
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D
© 1996, The New York Times6/22/96 ( No. 17,028 )
Across
1
Upper Great Lakes Indian : OJIBWA
7
Cheat : DEFRAUD
14
"Mme. Charpentier and Her Children" artist : RENOIR
15
Flirt : COQUETTE
16
Chemical warfare gas : ARSINE
17
Weathercock's roost : HOUSETOP
18
Chisels, e.g. : TOOLS
19
Famously touchy one? : MIDAS
20
Address abbr. : APO
21
Apple alternatives : IBMS
22
Kind of colony : PENAL
23
Tommy Atkins, e.g. : BRIT
24
United Nations vote : NON
25
Went off course : ERRED
26
Homes abroad : CASAS
27
Merrymaking : GAIETIES
29
Car engine part : FAN
30
Object of a hunt in a 1929 mystery : MALTESEFALCON
34
Intl. org. based in D.C. : OAS
35
Forty-niners' equipment : PICKAXES
37
Brews : BEERS
40
Naval personnel : WAVES
41
Evil spirit : IMP
42
Color in a Spanish sunset : ROJO
43
Leftover : SHRED
44
Wife of Lamech, in the Bible : ADAH
45
War hero : ACE
46
Bake, in a way : SHIRR
47
Photographic surface : PLATE
48
Gold coin of old : ZECCHINO
50
Beau : SUITOR
51
Modern time-waster? : INTERNET
52
Consent : ACCEDE
53
Pre-Life picture magazine : LESLIES
54
Removed, with "out" : WEEDED
Down
1
Panegyrics : ORATING
2
Three-liter bottle : JEROBOAM
3
Sometime woe for Thurber : INSOMNIA
4
Is angry : BOILS
5
Sports page stats : WINS
6
"You___" (1983 Lionel Richie hit) : ARE
7
Thingamajig : DOODAD
8
Uniform : EQUAL
9
Stew : FUSS
10
Female sandpiper : REE
11
Scents : ATTARS
12
No man's land? : UTOPIA
13
Stopping points : DEPOTS
15
Subject of a 1926 Charlie Chan mystery : CHINESEPARROT
19
Famille members : MERES
22
Crowbars : PRIES
23
___di Roma (Italian financial giant) : BANCA
25
Sundance Kid's girlfriend and others : ETTAS
26
Repairs, in a way: Var. : CALKS
28
Gold-mining province of Ecuador : ELORO
29
Dared : FACED
31
Fin : FIVER
32
Became rusty : OXIDATED
33
Roundworm : NEMATODE
36
Made round : SPHERED
37
1985 Jonathan Pryce film : BRAZIL
38
Epoch in which mamals arose : EOCENE
39
Boots : EJECTS
40
Complains feebly : WHINES
43
Fancy : SHINE
44
"Falstaff" soprano : ALICE
46
Mister, in Madras: Var. : SHRI
47
Purplish brown : PUCE
49
Animation frame : CEL
50
Crosscut : SAW

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 6 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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