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New York Times, Wednesday, June 7, 1995

Author:
Martin Schneider
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : Polly, perhaps
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Martin Schneider

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 42 Missing: {JQVX} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Schneider. Wednesday freshness: 65%
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© 1995, The New York Times6/7/95 ( No. 16,647 )
Across
1
Polly, perhaps : PARROT
7
Boy's partner, out West : GAL
10
Relative of a foot-pound: Abbr. : KGM
13
Book after Solomon : ISAIAH
14
Iffy weather guide : ALMANAC
16
Bar food : CHICKENFINGERS
18
Game of numbers : KENO
19
Huck Finn's transport : RAFT
20
Actor Beatty : NED
21
Whichever : ANY
22
National Gallery of Art architect : PEI
23
Slack-jawed feeling : AWE
25
Lamprey : EEL
28
More bar food : BUFFALOWINGS
31
Tyler or Taylor, e.g. : WHIG
33
Kind of ear : TIN
34
Monopoly card : DEED
35
39
Duck's habitat : POND
40
Mexican Mrs. : SRA
41
Brewery fixture : OAST
42
Reaction to a ghost : GOOSEPIMPLES
46
Auto financing letters : APR
47
A pocketful, in rhyme : RYE
48
Old Mideast alliance: Abbr. : UAR
49
Dance part? : CHA
52
Lout : APE
54
British informer : NARK
56
Lute feature : FRET
57
False display of sympathy : CROCODILETEARS
60
Refine : DISTILL
61
Emu or ostrich : RATITE
62
Approximately : SAY
63
Ghent river : LYS
64
Anthem part : STANZA
Down
1
Words preceding number or card : PICKA
2
Pallid : ASHEN
3
Like London : RAINY
4
Con mucho dinero : RICO
5
Cork source : OAK
6
1994 Denis Leary movie : THEREF
7
Fisherman's hook : GAFF
8
Big name at Leonardo da Vinci : ALITALIA
9
K-O bridge : LMN
10
Patch place : KNEE
11
Contrary Mary and others : GARDENERS
12
Hosts : MCS
15
Ford replaced him : AGNEW
17
Lacking savoir-faire : NAIF
22
Boxers, informally : PUGS
24
Custom : WONT
26
Discharge : EGEST
27
C20-H25-N3-0 : LSD
28
Aristophanes drama, with "The" : BIRDS
29
80's TV crime battlers, with "The" : ATEAM
30
Some of them are crazy : IDEAS
31
Joyful cry : WHOOP
32
Speakers' remuneration : HONORARIA
36
Catch sight of : ESPY
37
Kind : FRIENDLY
38
Cultivator : HOER
39
Nick Price's org. : PGA
43
At attention : ERECT
44
Knitting stitch : PURL
45
California team : LAKERS
49
Noted business publisher : CRAIN
50
Budget alternative : HERTZ
51
Befuddled : ATSEA
53
Nosegay : POSY
55
Afflicts : AILS
56
Goat's milk product : FETA
57
Modern records : CDS
58
Source of Rockefeller wealth : OIL
59
Make lace : TAT

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

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