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New York Times, Monday, August 15, 1994

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
21-Across : Bad grades
TotalDebutLatest
15411/22/19939/1/2024
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.5550233%
Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Piscop. Monday freshness: 85%
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© 1994, The New York Times8/15/94 ( No. 16,351 )
Across
1
Protection in a purse : MACE
5
Start, as a trip : EMBARK
11
Actor Max ___ Sydow : VON
14
Lawyer Dershowitz : ALAN
15
Dragon's prey : MAIDEN
16
Author Levin : IRA
17
Ex-heavyweight champ : RIDDICKBOWE
19
Galley slave's tool : OAR
20
"___ been had!" : IVE
21
Bad grades : DEES
22
"Is that so?" : REALLY
24
Colonist : SETTLER
26
Rock's ___ Vanilli : MILLI
27
Brit. ref. work : OED
28
Triangular-sailed ships : LATEENS
30
Pencil name : FABER
33
Hotel lobby : FOYER
34
"Ich ___ ein Berliner" : BIN
36
"Famous" cookie man : AMOS
37
Little bits : IOTAS
38
Dumb ox : BOZO
39
Fourposter : BED
40
Linen shades : ECRUS
41
Leafy shelter : BOWER
42
Small seals : SIGNETS
44
Journalist Nellie : BLY
45
Get rid of, in slang : DITCH
46
Deejay's need : HEADSET
50
Los Angeles player : DODGER
52
Orbit period : YEAR
53
Lumberjack's tool : AXE
54
Singer ___ Rose : AXL
55
Noble acts : BEAUXGESTES
58
___ time (golfer's starting point) : TEE
59
Niagara Falls craft? : BARREL
60
"Java" player Al : HIRT
61
"___ day now ..." : ANY
62
The "E" of H.R.E. : EMPIRE
63
Chocolate-covered morsels : ANTS
Down
1
Baseball's Roger : MARIS
2
Extant : ALIVE
3
Middy opponent : CADET
4
Epilogue : END
5
Ran the show : EMCEED
6
Almighty : MAKER
7
Lobster eaters' accessories : BIBS
8
Hubbub : ADO
9
Second drafts : REWRITES
10
Pew attachment : KNEELER
11
A concert-master holds it : VIOLINBOW
12
Kind of vaccine : ORAL
13
Not any : NARY
18
Ambitionless one : IDLER
23
Pub drink : ALE
25
Stocking parts : TOES
26
Yucatan people : MAYAS
28
Name in computer software : LOTUS
29
7D, e.g. : SIZE
30
Early Beatles describer : FAB
31
"Rag Mop" brothers : AMES
32
Legendary bluesman : BODIDDLEY
33
Onward : FORTH
35
Neither's mate : NOR
37
It sometimes comes in bars : ICECREAM
38
Cassidy portrayer William : BOYD
40
Uganda airport : ENTEBBE
41
Boombox sound : BLARE
43
Jazz date : GIG
44
Long-eared pooch : BEAGLE
46
Witch, at times : HEXER
47
Fine cloth : SATIN
48
Strive : EXERT
49
Schick et al. : TESTS
50
Disk contents : DATA
51
The yoke's on them : OXEN
52
Cosmonaut Gagarin : YURI
56
Dada founder : ARP
57
___ Na Na : SHA

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