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New York Times, Tuesday, June 6, 1995

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Will Shortz
38-Across : Puppeteer Tony
TotalDebutLatest
2033/27/19742/8/1999
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.47891535%
Sidney L. Robbins

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 180 for Mr. Robbins. Tuesday freshness: 5%
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© 1995, The New York Times6/6/95 ( No. 16,646 )
Across
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Victim of Corday : MARAT
6
Reminder : MEMO
10
Kind of tongue : ACID
14
Wonderland lass : ALICE
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Graceful horse : ARAB
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Buy U.S. bonds : SAVE
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66 Across laurels : WITHHONORS
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Bridge : SPAN
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Asserted : STATED
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Wiped out in battle : SLEW
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Lover of sweets : ANT
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Suffix with ballad or mountain : EER
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Wan : ASHEN
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Taxi : CAB
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Taste : SIP
33
Burlesque : SENDUP
36
Wings : ALAE
38
Puppeteer Tony : SARG
40
Point of view : ANGLE
41
66 Across cry : CONGRATULATIONS
44
Revolutionary War spy Major ___ : ANDRE
45
First of all : ADAM
46
Letters on a love letter : SWAK
47
Peep show customers : OGLERS
49
Historic period : ERA
50
Napoleonic general : NEY
51
___ Unis (United States, to Pierre) : ETATS
53
Time Inc. workers : EDS
55
A Gershwin : IRA
57
Puppy bites : NIPS
59
Acid salt : OLEATE
64
Cincinnati team : REDS
66
This puzzle's theme : GRADUATION
68
Spoon-playing locale : KNEE
69
One turn of an odometer : MILE
70
___ operandi : MODUS
71
Classify : SORT
72
Ripens : AGES
73
Trap : SNARE
Down
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Gullets : MAWS
2
Landed : ALIT
3
Actress Hayworth : RITA
4
Eight, to Hans und Franz : ACHT
5
Titter : TEHEE
6
"___ overboard!" : MAN
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Cupid : EROS
8
Miss Maples : MARLA
9
Preoccupy the mind of : OBSESS
10
Silly one : ASS
11
66 Across garb : CAPANDGOWN
12
Ill-tempered czar : IVAN
13
Car insurance case : DENT
18
Black Sea port : ODESSA
22
Plains harvest : WHEAT
25
Cowboy's rope : RIATA
27
City south of Dallas : ENNIS
28
Chocolate source : CACAO
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Tag ___ with (accompany) : ALONG
30
66 Across V.I.P. : BANDLEADER
32
Hardly a libertine : PRUDE
34
Arm bones : ULNAE
35
Vexatious : PESKY
37
White heron : EGRET
39
Hostile look : GLARE
42
Broadcast again : RERAN
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Substance used to ignite firework fuses : AMADOU
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Reputation harmer : STIGMA
52
Offshoot : SPRIG
54
Shuts with a bang : SLAMS
55
Irritates : IRKS
56
City near Tahoe : RENO
58
Store event : SALE
60
Uniform collar : ETON
61
Verdi opera : AIDA
62
Visitor's trip : TOUR
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Start of Massachusett's motto : ENSE
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Collection : SET
67
___ Moines : DES

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

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