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New York Times, Wednesday, July 26, 1995

Author:
Christopher Hurt
Editor:
Will Shortz
15-Across : Bird with a fanlike crest
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
117/19/199412/23/19981
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2013410
ScrabDebutFresh
1.607363%
Christopher Hurt

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Hurt. Wednesday freshness: 94%
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© 1995, The New York Times7/26/95 ( No. 16,696 )
Across
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The year 1006 : MVI
4
Hardware items : SCREWS
10
Kenya's Daniel ___ Moi : ARAP
14
Crib : BIN
15
Bird with a fanlike crest : HOOPOE
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Israeli P.M. Golda : MEIR
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Cartoon dog sound : ARF
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Measure of current : AMPERE
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Unit of real estate : ACRE
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1939 Robert Donat film : GOODBYEMRCHIPS
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Cores : NUCLEI
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Vote for : YEA
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Elec. day : TUE
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Chimney channel : FLUE
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Carp : NAG
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Imagined : DREAMT
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Guitarist Paul : LES
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"The Most Happy ___" : FELLA
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Brown seaweeds : KELPS
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1984 Diane Keaton film : MRSSOFFEL
38
Flaubert story : CONTE
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Egg producer : OVARY
42
Acid : LSD
45
Cops' cry at the door : OPENUP
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Before : ERE
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In ___ parentis : LOCO
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Kitten's sound : MEW
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Siesta : NAP
52
50's White House name : DWIGHT
54
1990 Newman-Woodward film : MRANDMRSBRIDGE
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Emilia's husband : IAGO
59
1904 Physiology Nobelist : PAVLOV
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Bother : IRK
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Stair part : STEP
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Comfortable : ATEASE
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Kind of dye : AZO
65
Roll-call response : HERE
66
Smell and taste, e.g. : SENSES
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Soak up : SOP
Down
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Wharton degree : MBA
2
Slash : VIRGULE
3
Clearly viewable : INFOCUS
4
Window cover : SHADE
5
Harvesting machines : COMBINES
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Viscous : ROPY
7
Dueling blade : EPEE
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Like bad apples : WORMY
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Be furious : SEERED
10
Nanking nanny : AMAH
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Solo musicale : RECITAL
12
Service station feature : AIRPUMP
13
Gets the VCR ready : PRESETS
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Bullfight hurrah : OLE
22
Starter of a sort : CARKEY
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Super Bowl org. : NFL
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Too : ALSO
29
Mitt : GLOVE
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Electric ___ : EEL
33
German philologist Wilhelm : FREUND
34
"It's ___ cry..." : AFAR
36
K2, e.g.: Abbr. : MTN
37
Country music giant of the 40's and 50's : FREDROSE
38
Michael Chiklis TV series, with "The" : COMMISH
39
Be at the controls : OPERATE
40
Holist, perhaps : NEWAGER
42
Open galleries : LOGGIAS
43
Playful musical passage : SCHERZO
44
Period : DOT
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Gauchos roam these : PAMPAS
48
Slangy hat : LID
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Babble : PRATE
53
Henry VIII sextet : WIVES
55
Informal refusal : NOPE
56
Bergman collaborator Nykvist : SVEN
57
"Gil ___" : BLAS
61
Film policeman : KOP

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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