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New York Times, Saturday, September 23, 1995

Author:
Martin Ashwood-Smith
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Bone up on
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Martin Ashwood-Smith

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 36 Missing: {BKQWZ} Spans: 3, (1 triple stack) This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Ashwood-Smith. Saturday freshness: 11%
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© 1995, The New York Times9/23/95 ( No. 16,755 )
Across
1
Topological solid : TORUS
6
Word processor? : REDACTOR
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___ garde : AVANT
15
Bob Newhart prop : TELEPHONE
16
"Ulysses" author : JOYCE
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Attentive : OPENEARED
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Essex resort : CLACTON
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Bone up on : READ
21
Type of therapy : CHEMO
22
Seed coat : ARIL
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Scorpius neighbor : ARA
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Sunday inits. : NFL
29
Culture mediums : AGARS
32
Noted Paganini composition : PERPETUALMOTION
37
Pitchman's problem : SALESRESISTANCE
38
Literary figure? : ETERNALTRIANGLE
39
Dangerous curves : ESSES
40
___ Angelo : SAN
41
Club ___ : MED
42
Bone, in combinations : OSTE
44
Site of 40-Across : TEXAS
47
Title heroine in a Shaw play : JOAN
50
Straight men : STOOGES
53
Stepped up : ESCALATED
56
Stage direction : ENTER
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Worm getter's attribute : EARLINESS
60
Beleaguerment : SIEGE
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Is in control : PRESIDES
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Porsche model : TARGA
Down
1
Muslim cap : TAJ
2
Ab ___ (from the start) : OVO
3
Singer from Albany, Ga. : RAYCHARLES
4
"That's enough!" : UNCLE
5
"Cannonball" propellant : STEAM
6
"___ Man" (1984 film) : REPO
7
Turgenev heroine : ELENA
8
Cubby hole? : DEN
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"Great" or "lesser" animal : APE
10
Quack : CHARLATAN
11
Burned rubber : TORE
12
"Hot cross buns, ___ penny, two..." : ONEA
13
Funnyman Foxx : REDD
15
Day-care attendee : TOT
19
TV adjustment : CONTRAST
21
Dream up : CREATE
23
Butts : RAMSINTO
24
"___ Code in My Dose" (1929 song) : IGOTA
25
Basilica recess : APSE
27
Ammunition : FUEL
28
Stands up : LASTS
30
Person who puts on an act : RINGMASTER
31
Pedestal bases : SOCLES
33
Back-of-magazine feature : PERSONALS
34
Literally, "day laborers" : ESNES
35
Turkish money : LIRA
36
Welfare state? : NEED
43
First name in cosmetics : ESTEE
45
Discharge : EGEST
46
Ohio city : XENIA
47
Wrangler, e.g. : JEEP
48
Geological ridges : OSAR
49
A lot of lot : ACRE
51
___ Millay of "Red River" : TESS
52
Takes too much : ODS
54
Year in Claudius's reign : LII
55
Besides : AND
57
Goad : EGG
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New Deal prog. : REA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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