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New York Times, Tuesday, July 18, 1995

Author:
Jonathan Schmatzbach
Editor:
Will Shortz
27-Across : Word Series of Poker winner
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
312/15/19945/16/20181
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.5211218%
Jonathan Schmalzbach

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Schmalzbach. Tuesday freshness: 24%
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© 1995, The New York Times7/18/95 ( No. 16,688 )
Across
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Leave, slangily : SPLIT
6
New York's ___ University : PACE
10
Component part : UNIT
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Hardly eager : LOATH
15
Muslim title : IMAM
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"Heartburn" writer Ephron : NORA
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Carroll adventuress : ALICE
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Number of Beethoven symphonies : NINE
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Winter Palace resident, once : TSAR
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"Guys and Dolls" guy : NATHANDETROIT
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Do one's darnedest : TRY
24
Actor Stephen : REA
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Elite military group : ATEAM
27
Word Series of Poker winner : AMARILLOSLIM
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Dictatorial : BOSSY
34
Site of deposit withdrawals : LODE
35
African antelope : GNU
36
"That hurts!" : OUCH
37
Deere products : PLOWS
39
Stamping tools : DIES
40
Neighbor of Leb. : ISR
41
Astronaut Bean : ALAN
42
"___ Porridge Hot" : PEASE
43
Radio drama "of mother love sacrifice" : STELLADALLAS
47
Lover : SWAIN
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Feel unwell : AIL
49
Fore's partner : AFT
52
Jack Boyle detective : BOSTONBLACKIE
56
"Get going!" : SCAT
58
Always : EVER
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Transparent cloth : TOILE
60
Artists' purchases : OILS
61
___ avis : RARA
62
Columnist Goodman : ELLEN
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Cotton bundle : BALE
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One-armed bandit's gullet : SLOT
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Gobs : SALTS
Down
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Italics have it : SLANT
2
Kind of bear or cap : POLAR
3
Ordinary churchfolk : LAITY
4
Yen : ITCH
5
"Be all that you can be" group : THEARMY
6
Theban poet : PINDAR
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She might get a billet-doux : AMIE
8
Shoptalk : CANT
9
May birthstones : EMERALDS
10
Loosens : UNTIES
11
Yearning for the past : NOSTALGIA
12
Clinton aide Magaziner : IRA
13
Roofing substance : TAR
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Teachers' org. : NEA
22
Siouan Indian : OTOE
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King Solomon's excavations : MINES
27
Bat wood : ASH
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Actress Massey : ILONA
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Weather system : LOW
30
Meditate : MUSE
31
Forest: Fr. : BOIS
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Evicts : OUSTS
33
Weirdo : SCREWBALL
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Kind of punch : PLANTERS
38
Terhune dog : LAD
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Composer Josquin ___ Prés : DES
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Actress MacGraw et al. : ALIS
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Tasting sensibilities : PALATES
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Founder of Taoism : LAOTSE
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Experimental animal : LABRAT
46
Like Capp's Abner : LIL
49
"A View to ___" : AKILL
50
___ mignon : FILET
51
Adolescents : TEENS
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Track-shaped : OVAL
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Nephew of Caligula : NERO
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R.C., e.g. : COLA
56
Kind of sister : SOB
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Spook-y org. : CIA

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

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