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New York Times, Saturday, August 19, 1995

Author:
Bryant White
Editor:
Will Shortz
26-Across : Crow's-nest cry
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Bryant White

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 38 Missing: {VZ} This is puzzle # 28 for Mr. White. Saturday freshness: 70%
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© 1995, The New York Times8/19/95 ( No. 16,720 )
Across
1
Dearth : LACK
5
Junk, e.g. : WATERCRAFT
15
Pastel : AQUA
16
In a strange twist : IRONICALLY
17
Lace loop : PURL
18
1959 spy novel : GOLDFINGER
19
Volley : FIRE
20
Knightwear? : MAIL
21
Showroom model : DEMO
22
Maupassant's "___ Vie" : UNE
23
Brilliantly colored marine fish : WRASSE
25
___ Tin Tin : RIN
26
Crow's-nest cry : LANDHO
28
Seal Harbor site : MAINE
30
Oscar-winning composer Max et al. : STEINERS
34
"To ___ and a bone...": Kipling : ARAG
35
Former Italian secret criminal group : BLACKHAND
37
D-Day ships: Abbr. : LSTS
39
G.I. Joe's milieu : TOYSTORE
42
Kind of star : GUEST
43
Cue-shaped : TERETE
45
Portuguese novelist ___ de Queiroz : ECA
46
A Nielsen : LESLIE
50
Business message : FAX
51
Unite : WELD
53
Wonder Woman's friend ___ Candy : ETTA
54
Ambush : JUMP
55
Gardener's attribute : GREENTHUMB
58
Area named after a Greek nymph : ASIA
59
Excessive attachment to English customs : ANGLOMANIA
60
"The Magic Mountain" novelist : MANN
61
Darjeeling's area : WESTBENGAL
62
Coast : SLED
Down
1
Squirming baby, sometimes : LAPFUL
2
The Angelic Doctor : AQUINAS
3
Shock wave? : CURRENT
4
Cabbage : KALE
5
Secret locks? : WIG
6
Essence : AROMA
7
Indian weights : TOLAS
8
"The ___ near" : ENDIS
9
Ransack and rob : RIFLE
10
Year in Severus's reign : CCI
11
Foreign currency : RAND
12
Berber home : ALGERIA
13
1945 Nobelist in Medicine : FLEMING
14
Power of Hollywood : TYRONE
23
At the same time : WHILST
24
She's "a Hedda" of her time : RONA
27
Liabilities : DEBTS
28
Bogart in "The Petrified Forest" : MANTEE
29
Passion : ARDOR
31
Without: Prefix : ECT
32
"King Kong" studio : RKO
33
Retiring : SHY
36
Wine region : ASTI
37
Swiss lake : LUCERNE
38
Good sailors have them : SEALEGS
40
Turndown : REFUSAL
41
Loosely woven cotton : ETAMINE
42
Gingerbread : GEWGAW
44
Dilate : EXPAND
46
Newton-John's "___ Be There" : LETME
47
Actor Hawke : ETHAN
48
Overcharged : STUNG
49
Keats poem : LAMIA
52
Shoulder muscle, briefly : DELT
54
Ties up : JAMS
56
One-point cribbage knave : NOB
57
Where to dance the gavotte : BAL

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

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