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New York Times, Wednesday, September 7, 1994

Author:
Cathy Millhauser
Editor:
Will Shortz
33-Across : Was a busybody
TotalDebutLatest
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Cathy Allis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JKQX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 11 for Ms. Allis. Wednesday freshness: 39%
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© 1994, The New York Times9/7/94 ( No. 16,374 )
Across
1
Horoscope : CHART
6
Pachacuti was one : INCA
10
Safety specifications : CODE
14
Personal care workers : AIDES
15
Dickensian orphan : NELL
16
Stormy greeting? : HAIL
17
Fat City dwelling? : THEHOUSEOFLARDS
20
Loudness unit : SONE
21
Jots : TADS
22
Actor Davis : OSSIE
23
Gatsby portrayer, with 36-Across : ALAN
25
Just those of Juan things? : ESOS
27
Outwit, in Fat City? : GETTHEBUTTEROF
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Was a busybody : PRIED
34
Gibbons : APES
35
Common Market money : ECU
36
See 23-Across : LADD
37
Warp : TWIST
39
Parts of matches : SETS
40
Unstop, poetically : OPE
41
Germany's ___ Mountains : HARZ
42
Munchkins : ELVES
43
Fat City office attire? : THREEPIECESUET
47
Bearing : MIEN
48
Inspector : EYER
49
Sphere, e.g. : SOLID
52
Paraphernalia : GEAR
54
Final words : OBIT
58
Be insincere, in Fat City? : PAYLIPIDSERVICE
61
Crow's-nest cry : AHOY
62
"Little Sheba" playwright : INGE
63
Yellow-fever mosquito : AEDES
64
"Ladders" in hose : RUNS
65
Turned gray : AGED
66
Take by force : WREST
Down
1
1983 Tony musical : CATS
2
"Farmer in the Dell" syllables : HIHO
3
Arabian Peninsula port : ADEN
4
Prepared leftovers : REHEATED
5
General on Chinese menus : TSO
6
Bonkers : INSANE
7
Requisite : NEED
8
Zoom-lens shots : CLOSEUPS
9
Actor-director Kjellin : ALF
10
Ballroom glide : CHASSE
11
Boating couple : OARS
12
Actress Conn of "Benson" : DIDI
13
Besides : ELSE
18
Bountiful's state : UTAH
19
Despoils : LOOTS
24
Old Ford : LTD
26
Printer's mark : STET
27
Plot mathematically : GRAPH
28
Place to get down from : EIDER
29
Fabric akin to felt : BAIZE
30
Chaucer pilgrim : REEVE
31
Eightsome : OCTET
32
Ado : FUSS
33
Novelist's concern : PLOT
37
Race's end : TAPE
38
Using extortion : WRINGING
39
Barely mention : SLUROVER
41
Johanna Spyri classic : HEIDI
42
Canton finish : ESE
44
Dickinson and Bronte : EMILYS
45
Halted : CEASED
46
Rochester's beloved : EYRE
49
Practice a la Marciano : SPAR
50
Kauai neighbor : OAHU
51
Where the Rhone meets the Saone : LYON
53
Sidle : EDGE
55
Remain : BIDE
56
Finishes the cake : ICES
57
Examine : TEST
59
___ mater (brain membrane) : PIA
60
Like sushi : RAW

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

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