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New York Times, Saturday, September 10, 1994

Author:
Rand H. Burns
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Across : Catch on
TotalDebutLatest
276/3/19937/17/1999
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RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
11.54113675%
Rand H. Burns

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 29 Missing: {QW} Spans: 2 Grid is asymmetric. This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Burns. Saturday freshness: 34%
Jim Horne notes:

There's something unusual about this grid.

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© 1994, The New York Times9/10/94 ( No. 16,377 )
Across
1
Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls : PAPYRI
7
Guitarist Hendrix : JIMI
11
Bygone cause : ERA
14
Way to Brooklyn or Broadway, in song : ATRAIN
15
Breakdowns : ANALYSES
17
Pithy depiction : THUMBNAILSKETCH
19
Garnets : REDS
20
Mystery author Lathen et al. : EMMAS
21
Drive away : SHOO
22
Brilliant conclusion : INE
23
Fitness guru : TRAINER
25
Heed : EAR
26
Create a fragrant aura : CENSE
28
The end, to some : ZED
29
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Combs : EARLE
31
Crystal mineral : EUCLASE
33
Miniplay : SKIT
35
Bad-mouths : SMEARS
36
Faithless : UNTRUE
40
Kiss, to 47 Down : KITH
42
Massed forces : PHALANX
43
Full-up : LADEN
46
Spirit : ELAN
48
Throw off : EMIT
49
Neighbor of Scorpius : ARA
50
Catch on : GETIT
52
Chuck : HEAVE
53
Tomb articles : URNS
55
1955 Preakness and Belmont winner : NASHUA
57
Study : DEN
58
Apt medium for 17 Across : PICTUREPOSTCARD
61
From now on : EVERMORE
62
Remove blubber from : FLENSE
63
___ judicata : RES
64
Plant-growth retardant : ALAR
65
Turned out : LOOSED
Down
1
Soprano Munsel et al. : PATRICES
2
Reading room : ATHENEUM
3
Girl in Beatles song : PRUDENCE
4
Tubers : YAMS
5
Thorax protector : RIB
6
Private : INNER
7
"The Travels of ___ McPheeters" : JAIMIE
8
Nonborder regions : INLANDS
9
Tricky shot, on baize : MASSE
10
Order : ILK
11
Job's forerunner : ESTHER
12
Take on more fuel : RECOAL
13
Not at sea : ASHORE
16
Sandburg's "___, the Dead Speak to Us" : YES
18
Floor : AMAZE
23
Round coffeecake : TEARING
24
Queen, to Juan Carlos : REINA
27
Quench : SLAKE
30
Churchill's successor in 1945 : ATTLEE
32
Craft with delta wings : SST
34
Bowie the commish : KUHN
37
Months of dawn-to-dusk fasting : RAMADANS
38
Miss ___ : UNIVERSE
39
Far out : EXTENDED
41
Courtesan of ancient Attica : HETAERA
42
Disease, in combos : PATHO
43
"She-Bop" singer, 1984 : LAUPER
44
Check in : ARRIVE
45
Flings of a sort : DANCES
47
One who avoids "sissies"? : LISPER
51
Matriculate : ENROL
52
Little Iodine's creator : HATLO
54
Dover or Hörmuz: Abbr. : STR
56
Defunct sports grp. : USFL
59
She was Glory in "Mad Dog and Glory" : UMA
60
Bus. mogul : CEO

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

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