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New York Times, Friday, September 29, 1995

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Across : Begging
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 34 Missing: {XZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 45 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 63%
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© 1995, The New York Times9/29/95 ( No. 16,761 )
Across
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Storage : CLOSETSPACE
12
Baseball fans' delights : DOUBLEHEADERS
14
"Jane Avril dansant" artist : TOULOUSELAUTREC
16
Pitcher : HURLER
17
Golfer Ballesteros : SEVE
18
"I ___ Rock" (1966 hit) : AMA
19
Jerks : ASSES
20
Goddess named in the opening of the "Aeneid" : JUNO
21
Groucho in "A Night at the Opera" : OTIS
22
Beggary : NEED
23
Fanlight section : PANE
24
Meanness : SPITE
25
River's curve : ESS
26
Arizona native : PIMA
27
Blotto : JUICED
28
Debater's entitlement : EQUALTIME
30
Drug-yielding plants : ALDERS
33
Military installation : SILO
34
Confuse : FOG
37
Kind of gold : FOOLS
38
A word of warning : DONT
39
Handouts : DOLE
40
Infamous name in spying : AMES
41
The Jacksons' hometown : GARY
42
"Nobody's Fool" author Richard : RUSSO
43
Good times : UPS
44
Kachina doll-makers : HOPI
45
Cato's epithet : CENSOR
46
49
Wait awhile : COOLONESHEELS
50
Begging : ONONESKNEES
Down
1
Soup, salad, etc. : COURSES
2
Made quiet : LULLED
3
Orchestra positions : OBOES
4
Musical sign : SLUR
5
M.I.T. degrees : EES
6
Novel featuring Lady Brett Ashley : THESUNALSORISES
7
Lover of Endymion : SELENE
8
Track star Nurmi : PAAVO
9
In unison : ADUE
10
This: Fr. : CET
11
Not constant : ERRATIC
12
Delights? : DOUSES
13
Iraqi or Israeli : SEMITE
14
Honorific for Macbeth : THANE
15
In a box : CASED
20
Dr.'s magazine : JAMA
21
Humorist-novelist Read : OPIE
23
Saint ___ (early Roman bishop) : PIUS
24
Sport in a ring : SUMO
26
Alphabetic run : PQRS
27
Leave in the lurch : JILT
28
Sushi fare : EELS
29
Bantam : TINY
30
"The Afternoon of ___" : AFAUN
31
Site of Vandenberg Air Force Base : LOMPOC
32
Reply in a playground argument : DOESTOO
34
Museum displays : FOSSILS
35
Baseball's Gregg et al. : OLSONS
36
Physicist Ohm : GEORG
38
She became a laurel tree, in myth : DAPHNE
39
Firth of Tay city : DUNDEE
41
Entrained : GOTON
42
Silents star Adorée : RENEE
44
Southernmost U.S. city : HILO
45
"High Hopes" lyricist : CAHN
47
Wooed partner? : WON
48
"For shame!" : TSK

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

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