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New York Times, Saturday, September 7, 1996

Author:
B. White
Editor:
Will Shortz
22-Across : Year in St. Gregory I's papacy
TotalDebutLatest
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511.542111170%
Bryant White

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 38 Missing: {KQUW} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 34 for Mr. White. Saturday freshness: 37%
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P
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L
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R
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P
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M
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O
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J
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© 1996, The New York Times9/7/96 ( No. 17,105 )
Across
1
Filthy lucre : PELF
5
House holds : ATTICS
11
Grunts : GIS
14
"I kissed thee ___ kill'd thee": Othello : EREI
15
Personae non ___ : GRATAE
16
Snippets of information : ANA
17
Tennis referee's cry : LONG
18
Investing, in a way : ROBING
19
Temporary computer storage : RAM
20
Extremely rare : IINAIOOOOOO
22
Year in St. Gregory I's papacy : DCI
23
It has cupule : ACORN
24
Corn-coction : PONE
25
Brings in : NETS
26
Angle's partner : SAXON
27
Unification Church member : MOONIE
29
Claim : ASSERTION
32
Christie adaptation : IOLITTLEINDIANS
38
Impetuous : OVEREAGER
39
Eat exclusively : LIVEON
40
Ebenezer's partner : JACOB
45
They go bananas over bananas : APES
46
Bluejackets : GOBS
50
Former Spanish president Manuel ___ : AZANA
51
Common conjunction : NOR
52
St. Lawrence sight : IOOOISLANDS
54
Literary monogram : TSE
55
Oscar winner, 1974 and 1980 : DENIRO
56
Brest milk : LAIT
57
Box score notation : HIT
58
Taken out : ERASED
59
River to Donegal Bay : ERNE
60
"Independence Day" attackers : ETS
61
Weigh : ASSESS
62
They may have it : AYES
Down
1
King who sent Jason for the Golden Fleece : PELIAS
2
Work with a famous Funeral March : EROICA
3
Pop singer Annie : LENNOX
4
Beaumarchais's barber : FIGARO
5
Soil: Prefix : AGRO
6
Band : TROOP
7
Banned : TABOO
8
Suffix with add or part : ITION
9
Birch society members? : CANOEMEN
10
Deseret bloom : SEGO
11
Billie Holiday trademark : GARDENIA
12
Idleness : INACTION
13
Geishas' instruments : SAMISENS
21
The Crossed Harpoons, in "Moby-Dick" : INN
25
Words of denial : NOTI
28
Fort near Monterey : ORD
29
H.S. subject : ALG
30
Make out : SEE
31
Title for Gilbert or Sullivan : SIR
32
Title for Gilbert and Sullivan : IOLANTHE
33
Lay eggs, as a field cricket : OVIPOSIT
34
Young hares : LEVERETS
35
Provokes : IRES
36
Race car driver ___ Fabi : TEO
37
Ballroom couples : TANGOERS
40
Carrier to Kyoto : JAL
41
Flower whose name means "dry" : AZALEA
42
One who sings : CANARY
43
1939 Giraudoux play : ONDINE
44
Clubs : BASTES
47
O'Neill and others : OONAS
48
Arrowrock Dam's river : BOISE
49
Begets : SIRES
52
Glimmering : IDEA
53
Lays down the lawn : SODS

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

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