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New York Times, Tuesday, September 27, 1994

Author:
Eileen Lexau
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Across : Sham
TotalDebutLatest
2712/17/196212/4/2000
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.56261746%
Eileen Lexau

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQY} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 19 for Ms. Lexau. Tuesday freshness: 98%
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© 1994, The New York Times9/27/94 ( No. 16,394 )
Across
1
"Amo, ___, I love a lass" : AMAS
5
Rowing crew : EIGHT
10
Nickname for Barbara : BABS
14
Whip : LASH
15
Something to plight : TROTH
16
Tennis score : ADIN
17
Dickens classic : BLEAKHOUSE
19
Neighborhood : ZONE
20
Not fresh, as water : STAGNANT
21
Cry in "Arsenic and Old Lace" : CHARGE
23
Goes out, in a card game : GINS
24
Millet subject : GLEANER
25
Ships' cranes : DAVITS
28
Pipe type : BRIAR
29
Pisces's follower : ARIES
30
Use the Osterizer : BLEND
31
Hauler's truck : RIG
34
Shaw classic : HEARTBREAKHOUSE
37
Gal of song : SAL
38
"___ my case!" : IREST
39
___ Mongolia : OUTER
40
Is the worrywart : STEWS
41
Olympics ceremony song : ANTHEM
42
Peruvian pack animals : ALPACAS
45
O.T. book : ECCL
46
Scale's reading : WEIGHT
47
He-man's display : MACHISMO
51
Sham : FAKE
52
Vincent Price classic : HOUSEOFWAX
54
Applications : USES
55
Eroded : EATEN
56
Revenue : TAKE
57
For fear that : LEST
58
Clown's prop, at times : STILT
59
British gun : STEN
Down
1
Priests' robes : ALBS
2
Ice cream treat : MALT
3
Cruising : ASEA
4
More like far-fetched dog stories? : SHAGGIER
5
Alien and Frome : ETHANS
6
Jeremy of stage and screen : IRONS
7
Pain in the joints : GOUT
8
Altitudes: Abbr. : HTS
9
Jail, slangily : THECLINK
10
Market : BAZAAR
11
Decorate : ADORN
12
Hardly a show of self-restraint : BINGE
13
Villain's look : SNEER
18
Opposite of a purl : KNITSTITCH
22
Boss of bosses : HEADHONCHO
24
Adjective for Alexander : GREAT
25
Dits' counterparts, in Morse code : DAHS
26
Neighborhood : AREA
27
Pharmacist's container : VIAL
28
"God ___" (sneeze response) : BLESS
30
Makes java : BREWS
31
The Bambino : RUTH
32
Words of understanding : ISEE
33
Seed : GERM
35
Whispers : BREATHES
36
Wins the strongman contest : OUTLIFTS
40
Most wise : SAGEST
41
Immigrant's giveaway : ACCENT
42
Dire : AWFUL
43
Rent : LEASE
44
Toll roads : PIKES
45
Artist's stand : EASEL
47
Conductor Riccardo : MUTI
48
Take a swipe at : SWAT
49
Earn : MAKE
50
Clumsy ones? : OXEN
53
___ bran : OAT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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