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New York Times, Friday, August 26, 1994

Author:
Timothy S. Lewis
Editor:
Will Shortz
61-Across : Excerpt, part 5
TotalDebutLatest
79/30/197911/18/1994
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Timothy S. Lewis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQUXZ} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Lewis. Friday freshness: 4%
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© 1994, The New York Times8/26/94 ( No. 16,362 )
Across
1
Macintosh predecessor : LISA
5
Fish feature : SCALE
10
Crumples : WADS
14
Joie de vivre : ELAN
15
Less racy : TAMER
16
Unbalanced : ALOP
17
Start of an excerpt from an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem : ALLDAYLONG
19
Elvis, for one : IDOL
20
"Read this" : FYI
21
Chaser, perhaps : BEER
22
Norm's wife, on "Cheers" : VERA
23
Physicist Joliot-Curie : IRENE
25
Excerpt, part 2 : BETWEENMY
29
A, to Mozart : EINE
30
Not sanguine : WAN
31
Ball perch : TEE
32
Having a ranking : RATED
34
Chateau-dotted valley : LOIRE
36
Wind up : END
37
Excerpt, part 3 : LIFEANDME
40
Pendant : BOB
43
Zigzags : TACKS
44
Oscitates : YAWNS
48
Antecedent period : EVE
49
Year of Trajan's victory over Dacia : CVI
50
Ruined : SHOT
51
Excerpt, part 4 : HERSHADOW
55
Comical Anne : MEARA
56
Province : AREA
57
Young men's club : FRAT
59
Moore's "___ the Last Rose of Summer" : TIS
60
Kind of stew : VEAL
61
Excerpt, part 5 : INTERVENES
64
Icicle holder : EAVE
65
What a skimmer skims : CREAM
66
Box : LOGE
67
Half-note feature : STEM
68
It's a crying need : HANKY
69
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Coveleski : STAN
Down
1
More verdant : LEAFIER
2
"Twelfth Night" setting : ILLYRIA
3
Conspicuous : SALIENT
4
What's more : AND
5
Eye problem : STYE
6
Old Testament scout : CALEB
7
Dean Martin subject : AMORE
8
Deighton or Dawson : LEN
9
Dyne-centimeter : ERG
10
Give up : WAIVE
11
Not too soft : ALDENTE
12
Openers : DOORMEN
13
Like a newborn's legs : SPLAYED
18
Tad's dad : ABE
24
1970 Nobel physicist Louis : NEEL
26
Most bears, biologically : TWINS
27
One of TV's Cleavers : WARD
28
Them, with "the" : ENEMY
33
Quit flying : DITCH
34
Massenet opera : LECID
35
Black or red tree : OAK
38
___ bean : FAVA
39
Pave the way : EASE
40
Is mannerly : BEHAVES
41
Pig out : OVEREAT
42
Leave desolate : BEREAVE
45
This and that : WHATNOT
46
Onetime dictator : NORIEGA
47
Eisenhower confidant : STASSEN
52
1692 trial site : SALEM
53
Commonly : OFTEN
54
Inflict : WREAK
55
V.J. employer : MTV
58
Land force : ARMY
61
"___liebe dich" : ICH
62
Powerful D.C. lobby : NRA
63
Superways : ELS

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

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